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Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy

Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy is a handheld crossover title with the Crash Bandicoot franchise. It is the first Spyro game developed by Vicarious Visions. The development team has given the dragon a more…

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Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy is an adventure developed by Vicarious Visions, released 3 June 2004 on Game Boy Advance.

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What Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy is

Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy is an adventure game developed by Vicarious Visions and released in 2004. It was published by Vivendi Universal Games. It is available on Game Boy Advance only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Ripto and Dr. Cortex have combined their forces to take over the world once and for all. Right in the middle of it all our the heroes, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon. Spyro now finds himself in both familiar and unfamiliar territory, passing through the realms into Crash's world as well as his own to defeat the evil that awaits. Spyro's usual abilities are available as always.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Crash Bandicoot series

Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy is the 21st of 72 entries we hold in the Crash Bandicoot series. The next entry was Crash Nitro Kart in 2004. Its critic score of 59 is 9 points below the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time at 86.

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How it was received

Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy holds a critic score of 59 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 11 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy launched on 3 June 2004, within three weeks of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Thief 3: Deadly Shadows, Thief: Deadly Shadows and The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Thief 3: Deadly Shadows, Thief: Deadly Shadows, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky.

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When did Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy come out?
Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy was released on 3 June 2004 for Game Boy Advance.

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