'Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy' release date news 2016: Three 'Crash Bandicoot' titles remastered with additional features

The first three "Crash Bandicoot" games are set to arrive for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro users in their remastered forms as part of Activision and Vicarious Visions' upcoming project, the "Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy" collection. The remastered collection will be featuring games such as the original "Crash Bandicoot," "Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back," and "Crash Bandicoot: Warped."

In a recent blog post by Vicarious Visions game director Dan Tanguay, he labeled the "N. Sane. Trilogy" as a "remaster plus" instead of identifying it as a full remake. They used the original level geometry from Naughty Dog as their guide and rebuilt the "Crash Bandicoot" gameplay entirely from scratch, capturing its precision and simplicity.

The upcoming "N. Sane Trilogy" will be featuring rebuilt levels that were based on the original geometry. The game characters were also created after their original designs. Since they are calling the trilogy a "remaster plus," additional features were also built into the games. Some of the additional features include a unified checkpointing and save game system, a unified menu system, and time trial setups in all three games.

In an interview with Digital Spy during a close-doors demo at the PlayStation Experience event in Los Angeles this December, Vicarious Visions producer Kara Massie explained how building all three games from the ground up was not as easy as it sounded.

"There's a number of challenges," Massie said. "The overarching one is how you take a 20-year-old game and make it totally relevant in 2017. That's something we're still in development with, we're still figuring out, there are a lot of questions to answer there. Specifically one that I think it behind us is Crash Bandicoot himself," the producer went on to say.

"Getting his moves right – getting his jump and spin and attacks absolutely perfect and spot-on, you have to nail that," Massie told Digital Spy and added, "Even as we go further into development and his new moves come in and stuff then we have to go back again, so that's a really big challenge."

Gamers can expect "Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy" to arrive for the PS4 and PS4 Pro sometime in 2017. According to a press release, the game trilogy will have a suggested retail price of $39.99.