Crash Bandicoot 4 gets new masks, playable characters and more

The recent State of Play from PlayStation was kicked off by a really cool look at Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s about time, with the reveal that you can play the entire game as Coco, if you choose and that once you finish the game you can enjoy the all new: N. Verted mode, a Bumpa-berry fueled mirror mode which lets players traverse through neon wastelands, old timey film sets that crank up gameplay speed and other awe-inspiring new takes on Crash’s world, check out everything in the trailer below.

Perhaps one of the coolest elements is that you will get to play as both Crash and Coco, but occasionally you can unleash your inner baddie as Neo Cortex and if that was not enough, sometimes Dingodile. After Crash Bandicoot: Warped, Dingodile hung up his old flamethrower-rocket launcher combo and retired from a life of villainy. But now he’s back with unfinished business, falling through space and time into another dimension where his adventure to return home begins.

“This is the first new game in the Crash Bandicoot series in more than a decade, so we felt it was important to introduce a brand-new style of play,” said Paul Yan, Chief Creative Officer and Co-Studio Head at Toys for Bob. “We teamed up with our good friends at Beenox to help us develop N. Verted mode, and they brought all of the same passion and expertise that went into the amazing Crash™ Team Racing Nitro-Fueled.”

“Toys for Bob has pulled out all the stops modernizing this classic franchise, from bringing to life visually stunning worlds, to creating a wide breadth of content and new ways to play, like N. Verted mode and additional playable characters,” said Michelle Bresaw, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Activision. “We’re confident this is a sequel fans have been waiting for, staying true to the franchise, while also bringing a fresh, new experience.

If all that was not enough for you, as you play through the game and earn coins, you can spend those coins via the in game store, to unlock new costumes for Crash and Coco. The outfits are purely cosmetic and don’t impact gameplay, that is for the masks, so if you were worried about that, don’t be, the other thing is that they are all in game unlockables, no microtransactions here.

The game is hitting PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 2nd, with the last one confirmed to work on Xbox Series X.