It’s been a while since Mr. Bandicoot has been spotted on a Sony console, but now the man is back and he is meant to be better than ever. The new game Crash of the Titans has been announced and will be coming to a PS2 or PSP near you soon, but no PS3 version is planned.

The game promises to be “a fun and adventurous title for gamers of all ages”, with Crash once again going after his arch enemy Neo and Nina Cortex, who are trying to mutate local creatures into something ridiculously huge. Players can hijack enemies so as to take control of their actions in order to use their abilities to defeat masses of enemies. The game also has the following features:

• ‘Jack to Attack!’ – Control, play and battle as 15 outrageous, original enemies, including titanic creatures such as Scorporilla, Ratcicle, Magamadon and Shellephant. While in control of a monster in ‘jacked’ mode, players can throw toxic stink bombs, call lightning down from the sky, fire laser beams from their eyes or even impale enemies with a massive scorpion tail. It’s up to you to use all of the creatures’ special abilities to defeat Neo and Nina Cortex.
• Hyper-Dynamic Combat – For the first time ever, Crash now has a powerful acrobatic fighting system that includes punches and flying kicks, multiple attacks and special counter moves. Players can power-up skills to unlock new attacks and blazing combos.
• Exploration and Adventure – With an amazingly expanded move set, Crash can now interact with his world in totally new ways. Players will be able to wall-run, swing from ropes and flip off springboards – Crash can even toss Aku Aku on the ground to surf, skate, grind and shred.
• Wacky Co-Op Action – At any point in the game, a second player can join in the fun and play as Carbon-Crash to help unleash total chaos! In a totally innovative twist to co-op action gaming, Crash can even jack Carbon-Crash (or vice versa) for some hysterical Crash ‘jacked’ mayhem.

The PS2 version

Co-Op will be a nice addition to the series and will hopefully work well across both platforms for Sony. Co-Op brings a whole new side to the Crash Bandicoot series, but is it really enough to go back to “one of the most popular videogame characters of all time”?

The game will be hitting store shelves this Autumn for the Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, PSP, and the Game Boy Advance.

Thanks to SneakySnake and Colby for submitting.