Official Crash Bandicoot will cameo in Astro Bot despite Microsoft’s Activision acquisition

[Megan]

Crash Bandicoot will cameo as a ‘VIP bot’ in Astro Bot, despite Microsoft now owning Activision Blizzard.

According to a new interview on the PlayStation Blog Crash, alongside other characters with “cartoony” features such as the apes from Ape Escape, will wear masks over their heads as the robot-style head of Astro didn’t work in terms of design.

“Sometimes LED eyes just didn’t work on certain characters because the original design relies so much on the pupils being a certain size or color for instance,” said Team Asobi’s studio director Nicolas Doucet.

“So for more cartoony VIPs like Crash Bandicoot or from Ape Escape, the Bots are wearing a mask to help bridge that problem.”

Source:

Crash Bandicoot will cameo in Astro Bot despite Microsoft’s Activision acquisition | VGC

Crash Bandicoot will camero in Astro Bot as a VIP bot, despite Microsoft now owning Activision-Blizzard, thus making him a first-party Xbox character.

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[NoHonor4amongZero]

Great to hear, Crash was one of my favs growing up on the PS1 and seeing his easter egg in Uncharted 4 really made me smile a lot like a kid again
He deserved to be in Astro Bot's cameos

 

[MrLightningZoltt11]

Dont know how off putting that mask is gonna be but if players can just recognize Crash then I'm fine with this, Im just glad he's in here despite what new companies do to restrict them

 

[PiratekingzzDomain888]

Im glad they were able to get a work around in to include them, how can you celebrate PlayStation without Crash? cmon