Crash And Spyro Cross Over On GBA

In re-examination it was probably inevitable -- Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot are crossing above in each other's games. Vivendi Universal's sum of two units PlayStation-born character assets will appear in a pair of Game lad Advance platformers: Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage and Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy. exhibited by Vicarious Visions, makers of the GBA Crash (although the GBA Spyro games were the work of Digital Eclipse) the sum of two units games will arrive side by dint of side in the second quarter of the year.

The setup for one as well as the other platformers posits that Crash's nemesis Neo Cortex and Spyro's enemy Ripto have joined forces to overpower both characters' worlds. In between the cooperative side-scrolling action, the pair games also feature several mini-game way s -- party games, gambling games, and a card-trading fashion Winning at the mini-games is rewarded with trading cards, which unfasten new features and serve as provender for trading or gambling with up to three other players.

"We're extremely excited about putting a compelling fresh spin on these two immensely popular franchises through joining them together in of the like kind a creative way," said Vivendi's Michael extremity -- no, really. "Both titles are completely immersive stand-alone games that maximize the general technology of GBA linking - delivering the deepest Crash and Spyro GBA experiences yet"

We'll acquire a closer look at the two games in April sometime, for a like reason look forward to more updates then.

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