Activision canceled Crash Bandicoot 5, which was a Spyro crossover

A mute documentary about damaged-down Activision developer Toys for Bob revealed that a Shatter Bandicoot 5 starring Spyro the Dragon used to be canceled by Activision.

The video, which Liam Robertson produced for Did You Know Gaming?, begins with a recap of the studio’s history via Shatter Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time. Definitely one of many most critical revelations from this fragment of the video is that Shatter Bandicoot 4 began enhance as an asymmetrical multiplayer sport codenamed Lava and customarily known as Wumpa League. After rising some single-player tutorial ranges for Wumpa League, the group pivoted to rising a single-player adventure. It developed Shatter Bandicoot 4 in appropriate 18 months, engaged on Wumpa League on and off alongside it.

Toys for Bob regarded as releasing Wumpa League spherical a Twelve months after the open of Shatter Bandicoot 4 as a free substitute for that sport with microtransactions. In 2020, Toys for Bob also created a pitch for a Shatter Bandicoot 5 that would’ve been an immediate sequel to It’s About Time, reintroduced parts from Shatter Twinsanity take care of the Academy of Infamous, and featured Uka Uka because the main villain. It also would’ve taken inspiration from Psychonauts, with Shatter coming into the minds of villains take care of Neo Cortex, Pinstripe, and Minute Tiger for just a few of its ranges.

Most seriously, it can presumably well’ve crossed over with Spyro the Dragon. Uka Uka would mumble a portal to commute to Spyro’s universe and abominable just a few of its Dragon Elders. Shatter and Coco would finally plan their methodology over to this dimension, back Spyro, and work collectively to quit Uka Uka. Sadly, this AAA Shatter and Spyro 3D platforming crossover wouldn’t plan it previous pre-manufacturing because Shatter Bandicoot 4 didn’t meet Activision’s excessive sales targets, because the publisher used to be hoping for sales equivalent to Shatter Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy.

Shatter Bandicoot 5 used to be canceled in November 2020. Spherical the identical time, manufacturing on the Wumpa League model of Lava also halted, even supposing Toys for Bob tried reimagining it just a few totally other ways. First used to be a multiplayer platforming starring World of Warcraft characters, however Blizzard shot down the foundation. Then, it morphed into a mute IP pitch called Monster Mechs, which Activision rejected. Toys for Bob used to be then assign on reinforce accountability for Name of Accountability: Warzone and Overwatch 2, however many builders left the studio, were let dart, or had their contracts terminated.

By the discontinuance of 2021, Toys for Bob had revived Project Lava. This would finally became Shatter Team Rumble, a scaled-serve model of the thought that mostly reused sources from Shatter Bandicoot 4 and used to be closely outsourced. Spyro would reach to Shatter Team Rumble in its third season, which also featured banners that worn Shatter Bandicoot 5 theory art. Following Microsoft layoffs in January 2024 that impacted its newly obtained Activision studios, a fourth season of Shatter Team Rumble and a mute IP utilizing Unreal Engine 5 were canceled. Toys for Bob’s leadership then negotiated with Microsoft to became an self ample studio that would plan a sport Xbox would submit, and that’s the place this documentary concludes.

The video goes into draw more detail, so strive it out within the occasion you are drawn to all the pieces that has took place at Toys for Bob over the final decade.