Sierra have announced a new installment in the platforming series starring everyone's favourite Eastern Barred Bandicoot.

Crash Bandicoot is returning to the Wii and DS with a new beast-riding chapter in the series entitled Crash: Mind Over Mutant.

In Mind Over Mutant, the infamous Doctor Neo Cortex returns with yet another dastardly plan to take over the world. This time, he plans on doing it with the power of text messages in order to mind control the populace into doing his bidding. Only the loveable Crash can save his friends and the world from the menace of Cortex.

Mind Over Mutant will let you go "Free-Romping" around the vast intersecting worlds with the different Titans you've collected.

The antagonising Titans from the previous game (Crash of the Titans) are set to return, and this time Crash can store them Pokémon-style, allowing him to upgrade and use them at any time. In addition to several new abilities and a free-roaming island to explore, Mind Over Mutant will also feature co-op play, allowing a friend to jump in and aid Crash in his quest by playing as Crash's sister, Coco.

One of Crash's new abilities is climbing, which we'd imagine would be a bit difficult without opposable thumbs.

Click here to see the rest of the screenshots, and here to see the game's teaser trailer.

It's also interesting to note that Radical Entertainment are developing the Wii version first, and then downgrading the visuals for the PS2 version and upgrading them for the 360 version. It's nice to see a developer putting effort into a multiplatform title!

Crash: Mind Over Mutant will be crashing (ho ho) onto the Wii and DS on October 28th in North America.

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Comments

DarkPGR3 Says:
April 29th, 2008 at 22:01 || Total Comments: 94

I hope it is good, the last (and I would have to say only) good Crash Bandicoot title I played was the second one on GBA, although the first one on GBA was good too...

Nathan Says:
April 30th, 2008 at 01:45 || Total Comments: 1116

Crash Team Racing was one of my first ever games, and I have to say it's amazing. I was getting nostalgic whilst writing this news and have the sudden urge to go out and get all the GameCube/GBA/DS/Wii Crash and Spyro titles. :/

ConflictCloud Says:
April 30th, 2008 at 03:58 || Total Comments: 174

Yeah, I'm getting a bit nostalgic too actually... If only they could recapture the old glory of CTR and the original Spyro trilogy...

Guardiandevil Says:
April 30th, 2008 at 04:49 || Total Comments: 353

My first Crash Bandicoot was the first one on the PS2. It was fun and quite good. I hope this is good. Sure looks like a crash bandicoot game...

D_prOdigy Says:
April 30th, 2008 at 13:27 || Total Comments: 1596

I'm sorry, but it has to be something really special to top the pure magic of bazookaing a two-headed, club-wielding, medieval giant with apples.

Nintendo-master2 Says:
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:27 || Total Comments: 1530

hehe...I have strong memories of falling of a cliff ect. And like 100 apples would go falling with me :D

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