Under Gamescom i august snakket vi med Paul Reiche fra Toys for Bob og Jennifer O'Neal fra Vicarious Visions. Temaet var det nye Skylanders-spillet kalt Imaginators, som ikke bare skal ha med den kjente og kjære Crash Bandicoot, men også hans erkefiende Dr. Neo Cortex.
Årets spill blir litt annerledes med tanke på mange av figurene, for inspirert av barnetegninger innsendt til utvikler Toys for Bob kan Paul Reiche fortelle at man vil kunne designe sine egne figurer:
"Ever since we released the first game we've received thousands of letters kids around the world and they're all showing us their designs for Skylanders, so we decided this year [...] to use the imagination of our fans as the innovation and we're letting them create their own Skylanders and that's in the full sense of what a Skylander is. How they look, how they fight, how they talk, what their tagline is - every aspect of their personality and there are so many different ways to create your own character that we think our fans will be able to create exactly the Skylander that's coolest and most interesting."
O'Neal hadde også følgende å si om inkluderingen av Crash Bandicoot:
"As you know it's the twentieth anniversary of Crash Bandicoot so what better time to reintroduce them to a new generation of fans [...] I can play as Crash or Neo and my kids can create their own character and play alongside me and that's what Skylanders is about, bringing families together, playing co-operatively and it's really fun. Crash and Neo have their own level, it's called the Thumpin' Wumpa Island. There's a lot of fun gameplay that's really nostalgic for the player that's played the original Crash Bandicoot games, there's Wumpa fruit you collect, there's crates you smash and bounce on and there's even a really cool area in the level that's like the old boulder chase levels."
Skylanders Imaginators slippes til PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360 og Xbox One 14. oktober.