Quick Look | Crash Bandicoot 4 - The Wrath of Cortex (2001) PlayStation 2 HD
3Part 4 ... post Naughty Dog , made by Traveller's Tales was a miss matched disaster ... cutscenes that bored you , levels that where padded to extremes ... maps made without heart , without vision ... if a game is not fun, then why bother to play it ... some, liked it for "back to the roots" design ... some, saw the lacking creativity ... it other words, it only sold because of the Ips brand status... then, year later , they made "Haven: Call of the King" (that i presented some months ago) ... a game that was a Copy/Paste of this design ... build from mismatched mini-games, without context... that wanted to form, some sorts of a story ... a game, that wanted to be a trilogy , became theirs nail in the coffin ...
What you do, when you do a colossal BOMB TURD... try to do a quicky Child friendly "E" rated game ... they sell like crazy ... and if they are tied with a Disney Movie ... then it will sell , all thanks to Disney Hype PR Machine ..."Finding Nemo" , was theirs next game , that was made only to save the studio ... theirs next product was theirs last hope ... DO GOOD OR BANKRUPT .... here comes , Crash Bandicoot 5 - Crash Twinsanity ... by the public called "the best crash ever made" ... that saved the studio 10x over ... the TRUE EVOLUTION OF CRASH .... for me it was meh , but we get to it why... later on
After that they played SAFE, and made two racers and two kids games :
Lego Star Wars: The Video Game ,
F1 Grand Prix ,
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,
World Rally Championship .
This was a decision stand point, in what direction the studio will go next ... Racing games that sell, or Kids games ... Lego won with crazy amount of sold units ... and from this point, for the next 15 years , they made ONLY LEGO GAMES ... 20 games Total ... you can say , they are milking Lego dry as f ....
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