Data on the original games' animations, characters, artificial intelligence, control timing, textures, and even a lot of the music was gone (though Tanguay confirms some musical data was recovered to help the team lock into songs' timing and MIDI instrumentation layers).Īll the meshes did was help the team nail the architecture and scale of the worlds Crash would run, jump, spin, and repeatedly die in.
("They were compressed in some wacky format that we had to decode," Tanguay pointed out.) Meshes don't make an entire game, of course-far from it. Thankfully for Vicarious, the team did uncover a crucial data set: all three games' 3D meshes, provided by both Sony and Naughty Dog as a series of hard drives. By "everything," he means all of the Crash games' source code and reference materials. "Almost everything was missing," Vicarious designer Dan Tanguay said to Ars in an interview. (Crash's sister, Coco, will be playable in all three games, but she's a cosmetic swap with zero unique moves.)īut after hammering developer Vicarious Visions with question after question, I got something more interesting out of the team: the amount of from-scratch work that was required to make this remaster. From what I've played at multiple events, every brutally tough platforming level seems to be returning with faithful controls and with substantially redrawn, HD-friendly graphics.Īctivision invited Ars to check out the near-final game one more time ahead of its June 30 launch, and, for some reason, they thought the most exciting news they had to offer was a new playable character. All three of the series' original PlayStation 1 games are coming back in a single package. Sane Trilogy lands on consoles next week, and, from what I can tell, the game will offer very little in the way of surprises.
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