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New Banjo Kazooie promises innovation

Rare hope to refresh genre

Speaking to select fan sites this week, Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts lead developer Gregg Mayles has said that Rare's Xbox 360 exclusive could shake up the genre, making platform games of the past look hopelessly out of date.

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"It’s true that anyone wanting a carbon copy of the previous two games will be disappointed, so I’m not even going to make out that it is," he enthused during a live chat.

"What I believe it to be is an evolution of the platform adventure genre. The genre is too stale: it needed shaking up, so we’re trying something different, but within the framework of a ‘traditional’ Banjo game.

"It has a familiar structure, things to collect, characters to talk to and all the humour you would expect. I said on one forum that all we have done is to make the travelling fun. So that pretty much sums it up, we have taken the boring bit (travelling) and made it fun."

More on Banjo 3 as we get it.