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9:46 PM - Tuesday the 10th of October, 2006 - by dark52
The official Spyro website, SpyrotheDragon.com has finally been updated to promote the new game, The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning. You can find a few new screenshots, info on some of the new characters, info and videos about some of Spyro's attacks and a new TV Commercial (as well as the video previously seen on Krome Studio's website).

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There's also a video for the Mobile version of the game as well as some new screens for it, if you're interested in that.

It's just about as close to the release date as you can get, The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning should be available in North America now if not tomorrow.
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#1 GnastyRatchet 21:52:12 10/10/2006
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Ehh.... the link isn't working for me. I think they are still working on the site smilie. Hopefully it'll work later on.
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#2 dark52 - Spyro the Admin 21:54:52 10/10/2006
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Ah, my fault. Link should work now. smilie

I don't know why they keep bothering to put links to other languages when they don't bother to actually make the other language versions. smilie
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#3 GnastyRatchet 22:18:13 10/10/2006
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The link works now. The new site is simply awesome smilie. This game looks sooooooo good! I'm glad I pre-ordered my copy today so I can pick it up tomorrow. From looking at those vids, and the TV commercial, I can conclude that the cinematic scenes in this game will be computer animated!!!! They look GREAT!!!!! Cynder is (by far) the coolest looking Spyro villian of the vivendi games (no one can top Insomniac's Gnasty Gnorc). Sparx reminds me a lot of Daxter tho smilie..... but I can get used to that! I just love the epic tone this game has compared to others. Also, despite what the strategy guide said, the Dark Master plot seems to still in the game!!! smilie

SPYRO IS AWESOME!!!!!
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#4 Neal 23:23:18 10/10/2006
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This isn't related entirely...but I need help to access the site.


I cannot get flash to play on youtube, or nintendo.com I click to install it and it plays a short little quip of a bar spinning and telling me it is installed, however it still doesn't work at these sites.

Now if I take the video link and embed the youtube video into myspace it plays.

It will not play if it is on the main site.

I also cannot access www.spyrothedragon.com.

I know I have flash player installed, it used to work.

However it would not work at the same time as Blue Coat by Zone Labs running, an anti-spyware application.

I disabled Blue Coat and then flash worked. However after a computer reboot, the flash player didn't work again with or without Bluecoat on.

How is it I can see youtube videos embedded (which takes flash) but trying to play it on the main site it says flahs is not installed, and why can't it be read to use such sites as Nintendo, Spyro and MSNBC Video?

Why did it work before a reboot? Why didn't it work with Blue Coat on?

Why on earth can't I use flash, it tells me it is installed! It also says if it doesn't work maybe Active X is blocking it and if that is the case a pop up would appear prompting me to tell Active X to allow flash, no such pop up has come forth for me!

Please help me get flash...so I can see the new Spyro site!
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#5 dark52 - Spyro the Admin 23:43:07 10/10/2006
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Try viewing it in a different internet browser such as Opera or Firefox. Or perhaps you may need to reinstall/upgrade your Flash Player.
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#6 ih8u2 23:45:03 10/10/2006
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Alrighty then, graphix are a slight departure from what I expected, but they are really good. I may just get this asap.
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#7 Neal 00:47:37 11/10/2006
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Finally it worked! Sparx is purely ugly! The music is wonderful! Really wonderful! It does seem like the Dark Master is in it, but he is the same as the spirit she is trying to resurrect, it sounded like they were two things, but they are the same. This is the best of any Spyro site ever. It went up almost as soon as I mentioned it not being up. 4 guardians now not just one. The cutscenes almost look like claymation but I know they are not.
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#8 alicecarp 06:24:49 11/10/2006
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All the dragons look cool, my favourite is Volteer.
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#9 jamieque 14:23:15 11/10/2006
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The dragon designs look good. Now I have to just figure out how or if I am going to incoporated any of the new characters in the 2008 movie. The biggest problem is that this game is reboot that isn't connect to the orginal universe. I'll figure something out.
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#10 dark52 - Spyro the Admin 17:06:10 11/10/2006
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There's another review out, from Games Radar. 7/10.
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#11 GnastyRatchet 20:58:59 11/10/2006
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Well.... 7/10 is still good compared to 5/10. smilie SPYRO ROCKS!
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#12 GnastyRatchet 21:28:51 11/10/2006
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Looks like game informer felt the same as Games Radar. Another 7/10.
They say that it hast too much combat and doesn't do it well enough smilie.

http://www.gameinformer.com/NR...2AE29B2D57B.htm
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#13 Neal 23:13:54 11/10/2006
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Well so far Spyro's 'grade' is a 70%.

Out of a total possible 40 points he has gotten 28.

You can either take all four scores - 70, 70, 55, 85 and add them then divide by four or 7+7+5.5+8.5 and divide by 40 (the total possible score).

That is ok I guess, I hope it goes higher an 80% - 90% would be nice!

~*Neal*~
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#14 the red fox 23:42:06 11/10/2006
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Prima Games have noticed the game and have made a guide book on it. Real good.smilie
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#15 GnastyRatchet 23:56:21 11/10/2006
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Yeh Prima released that a couple days ago. It does really look good.

The two big reviews I'm waiting for are IGN and Gamespot. I'm hoping to see some more 8/10's !!!!! smilie

Lets all hope!
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#16 the red fox 01:36:35 12/10/2006
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http://ds.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=4367
This site supports the cause.
Oh, and I bought that Prima guide the day it came out.
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#17 spyrorocks 23:46:37 12/10/2006
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Well, the games not out in Brittish Columbia, Canada yet. thats for sure. hopefully out later this week.
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#18 artiste_violet 00:25:49 13/10/2006
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I sure hope it comes out this week! We ( Canada) are supposed to get at the same time than the USA, right?
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#19 the red fox 19:46:45 13/10/2006
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Well I got it on the game on the 12 of october, tell me when you actually see it at a store since i'm not quiet sure.
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#20 GnastyRatchet 01:21:42 14/10/2006
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Got the game today! Played it........ and I'm addicted. IT's AWESOME!!!!! This certainly isn't the insomniac spyro we all know and love... in a couple ways its better! While I miss collecting gems/orbs etc. this game makes up for it with it's awesomeness. First off, the computer generated cinematics are very well done. It really is like playing through a pixar film (mainly because there are so many cutscenes!). Unlike AHT or ETD, this game is very scripted. Gary Oldman has the coolest dragon voice I've ever heard, Spyro sounds good too. Despite what GamesRadar said, I really like David Spade as sparx! He reminds me of Daxter so much! DAXTER ROCKS! Anyway, the combat is sweet (seems kinda repetetive) but its fun! The music sounds very similar to Lord of the Rings. Its epic, and very engaging. There is even a flashback scene showing a massive war between the dragons and Cynder's baboons that looks very similar to a LOTR battle. THe graphics are best I've ever seen in thhe Spyro franchise. I'm sooooo glad it doesn't look bright, cheery, and un-detailed like AHT. Instead, its dark (like a war-torn world should look), highly detailed, and simply gorgeous. The enemies are very awesome, and detailed too (no more pink low polygon gnorcs! smilie) I've only gotten past the first area, and I'm really loving this game smilie. Oh yeh, each level in the game is actually an island linked by flying stages. The stage I played was the best part of the game so far smilie! You get to CONTROL SPYRO WHILE HE FLIES FROM ONE ISLAND TO THE OTHER!!! AWESOME! So yeh, all of you people have got to buy this game! Its way different from the insomniac ones, but krome has made it into something (in some ways) better! smilie
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#21 Dragginwings 13:46:16 14/10/2006
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U lucky dog u!!! WAAA!!! I PAYED $10.00 extra-- HURRY UP AMAZON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! smilie
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#22 the red fox 19:06:22 14/10/2006
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You should know GnastyRatchet that you only fly twice in the game, when you go to Dante's Freezer and escaping Munitions Forge.
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#23 GnastyRatchet 16:18:25 15/10/2006
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Yah.... I just realized that. I've made it to the 4th area and I've only flown once smilie. It would have been better if you got to fly more often.
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#24 artiste_violet 21:03:11 17/10/2006
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YOU GUYS ARE MAKING ME SOOO JELOUS!!!
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#25 the red fox 00:59:52 18/10/2006
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061017/latu109.html?.v=67
I never read it myself just to tell you.
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#26 dark52 - Spyro the Admin 01:07:13 18/10/2006
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http://www.mighty-troglodytes..../game/spyro.php

The developer for the mobile version's website for the game.

http://uk.xbox.gamespy.com/xbo...g/739682p1.html

And a review from GameSpy: 2.5/5

http://uk.ds.ign.com/articles/739/739837p1.html

And IGN's review for the DS version: 7.1/10
They've also got some screenshots and videos of it.

http://uk.ps2.ign.com/articles/740/740532p1.html

And now IGN also have a review for the console versions too: 7.7/10
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#27 Neal 21:16:08 20/10/2006
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Yupp, gamecube version 7.7/10says IGN!
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#28 dark52 - Spyro the Admin 19:25:48 23/10/2006
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http://spong.com/feature/10109435

SPOnG give it a B+ and several nice screenshots for those without the game already.
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#29 Neal 21:03:06 23/10/2006
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Grr...for some reason SPOnG never shows up to me, it is their site but it is a company line about what they ncan provide me, not the actual article!

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#30 dark52 - Spyro the Admin 21:10:34 23/10/2006
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Try clicking the Click here to continue bit?
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#31 Neal 02:59:33 24/10/2006
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I would but no such thing ever shows up.
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#32 Michael 19:06:57 02/11/2006
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I hope that when (hopefully) another Spyro game is released, VU Games will have an official site up and running weeks, if not months, before the game's release, not only three days before it.
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#33 dark52 - Spyro the Admin 22:45:24 23/11/2006
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Wow, I see they've actually made the alternate language/region versions. smilie

Still 'Coming Soon' on the attacks though. smilie
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#34 HIR 14:48:13 24/11/2006
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It'll probably take them awhile. My favorite dragon is Volteer. He is really funny!
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#35 Volteer 02:11:34 07/12/2006
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why thank you, HIR, lol. i am quite funny arent I. oh, you forgot to say handsome and smartsmilie smiliesmilie
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#36 HIR 21:06:56 08/12/2006
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T_T don't push your luck. I rarely give people complements.
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#37 Lover of Spyro 08:19:57 09/12/2006
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why is Volteer funny? i like him best of all the guardians because hes the "electric" dragon!!!


any way.....


SPYRO IS THE CUTEST THING IN THIS UNIVERSE!!!!!!

(and the best game in the history and time of the universe!!!!!!!!)
and i give all the games (including ones like: shadow the hedgehog,ect) a fating/grade out of 100%!!! and i've gave ANB a rating of 1000% out of 100%!!!!!!!!!!!
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#38 HIR 16:10:49 09/12/2006
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0_0

Take it easy, my sysetm can only handle so much exclamation marks!
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#39 Volteer 17:26:18 09/12/2006
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yeah, i am pretty cool arent i, lover of Spyro smilie
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#40 HIR 17:36:32 09/12/2006
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The ending has a little bit of Volteer funny in it with Sparx! I just ROFL'd when I heard it!
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#41 Volteer 17:46:26 09/12/2006
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ahhhh! lol, you are really making want to break under the christmas tree and open ANB now!!!
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#42 HIR 18:37:01 09/12/2006
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You'll be happy with it! Seeing as how you seem to have aquired so much knowledge for one who only played the first game!
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#43 Volteer 18:41:20 09/12/2006
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lol, i feel honored to be appreciated by all you guys even though im only a firstysmilie you guyes are so nicesmilie
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#44 HIR 18:10:59 10/12/2006
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Thanks! I think...
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#45 Volteer 19:01:42 10/12/2006
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anyway. back to the official site topc. i could play with Spyros breaths for hours. i love that feature on the site
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#46 Terrador 11:38:41 11/12/2006
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and what about me?
I really turned spyro into a warrior
and without me, spyro'd tried to save ignitus and died qithout being a true strong dragon
I made spyro face his fear, and master it
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#47 Volteer 14:16:34 11/12/2006
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welcome terrador, but i didnt get to read your message, no spoilers please!!! just like do this before you do *WARNING SPOILERS* or something, i havent played it yet so i dont want any surprises spoiled. but good to see you on the site. I also love watching the trailer on the official site,i watch it all of the time, P.S. where is Ignitus and Cyril?
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#48 Lover of Spyro 08:41:14 16/12/2006
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and i did'nt say YOU were cool,i said that the real Volteer!(i don't sat stuff like that to boys! smilie) and earlier on in the comments HIR you said they were too many exclemation marks, i get told off at skool 4 puting 2 many ! 's.
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#49 Lover of Spyro 08:41:52 16/12/2006
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well i only say it to well hes not a boy but he is smilie !!! smilie

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