Spyro 3 Interview

Spyro the cute fire-breathing, barely flying Dragon is back. In his third adventure, Spyro: Year of the Dragon, the young purple one is tasked with recovering a group of missing baby dragon eggs. Join Iron Thumbs as he sits down with Spyro developer Brian Allgeier to get the flame retardant facts.

Spyro the cute fire-breathing, barely flying Dragon is back. In his third adventure, Spyro: Year of the Dragon, the young purple one is tasked with recovering a group of missing baby dragon eggs. The game's developers at Insomniac have spared nothing to make this a deep and enjoyable game and are packing it with extras for the November release. Join Iron Thumbs as he sits down with game developer Brian Allgeier to get the flame retardant facts.

GP: What's the basic story behind Spyro: Year of the Dragon?

B: The basic story is Spyro is now in the Dragon World. So he's returning to where he came from in Spyro 1. And what's happening is all the baby dragons are being born, and they have this big festival and all the dragons dance and play. That evening these creatures called Rhynocs sneak up from the earth through these little holes, and they steal these little dragon eggs and go back down to this area called the Forgotten World. Spyro is the only dragon who can fit through these small holes, so he gets to go down and save the day. We're kinda pushing a collector based mission to go with the Pokemon collection that inspires players to collect a bunch of [dragon eggs]. There's a guidance page you can go to and in that you can look at the different families of baby dragons, each of them with their own personalities. This also keeps it a little bit clearer and allows one collection to be your focus .

GP: So the objective is to find all the dragons?

B: All the baby dragon eggs, there's over 140. And you get a little bit of an animation (with each egg you save) which you'll see in the game. We're also having some cameo appearances from various characters like Hunter, Money Bags, The Professor, even Gramps, the dragon from Spyro 1.

GP: What are some of the new features for this Spyro?

B: One of the interesting gameplay points is that we have six different characters that you can play as. Four of them are what we call Critters. There are also some neat mini games like skateboarding and boxing and then there's some vehicle play so we've got a boat, a sub, and a hovercraft tank. Then we've also added mini-bosses, which were really popular in Spyro 2. We've got an additional main boss and four mini bosses throughout the whole game. The speed rounds have made a return and you can get the all-in-one and you can also get the race, which is a new feature. [The race] is an air race against bumble bees and you can pilot a plane.

GP: Can you tell us about one of the minigames?

B: We've got a few Tony Hawk fans at Insomniac, so we included skateboarding as one of the minigames. There will be three skateboarding minigames such as a competition for points based on tricks.

Another minigame is boxing. This time you get to play as one of the Critters, so here you'll play as Bently and you fight the Yeti from Spyro 2.

*Read on for new characters, technical improvements, and more!

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