Spyro: Year of the Dragon (2000) (VG)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Romance

Tagline:

Can you take the heat?

Plot:

It's the Year of the Dragon! Every tweleve years, Dragon Kingdom has a festival where the fairies deliver...

Plot Keywords:

Dragon | Fire Breathing Dragon | Sequel | Character Name In Title

Cast

Tom Kenny	...	Spyro the Dragon / Sergeant James Byrd / The Professor (voice)
André Sogliuzzo	...	Sparx the Dragonfly / Additional Voices (voice) (as Andre Sogliuzzo)
Gregg Berger	...	Hunter the Cheetah (voice)
Neil Ross	...	Moneybags the Bear / Bentley the Yeti / Additional Voices (voice)
Carolyn Lawrence	...	Zoe the Fairy / Tara Kroft / Elora (voice)
Edita Brychta	...	Sheila the Kangaroo / Princess Ami of the Fairies (voice)
Richard Tatum	...	Agent 9 / Sebastian the Seal (voice)
Pamela Hayden	...	Bianca the Apprentice Bunny / Cloud Imps / Additional Voices (voice)
Flo Di Re	...	The Sorceress / Fairies / Additional Voices (voice)
Victoria Hoffman	...	Fairies / Rapunzel the Bear (voice)
David Lodge	...	Crazy Ed / Enchanted Towers Artists / Jack in the Beanstalk (voice)
Marcelo Tubert	...	Gus / Bears / FirefliesTomb Pharoahs (voice)
Daisy Tormé	...	Greta / Pandas (voice) (as Daisy Torme)

Produced by
David Bowry	....	executive producer: SCEE
Emma Burwood	....	producer: SCEE
Grady Hunt	....	producer: SCEA
Ricci Rukavina	....	producer: Universal Interactive Studios
Donovan Soto	....	associate producer: SCEA

Original Music by
Ryan Beveridge
Stewart Copeland

Art Direction by
Craig Stitt

Art Department
Charles Zembillas	....	designer: Spyro

Sound Department
Michael Gollom	....	sound designer
Michael Gollom	....	sound: Warner Bros. post-production (as Mike Gollom)
Ron Horwitz	....	supervising sound editor: Universal Sound
Bryan O. Watkins	....	sound: Warner Bros. post-production (as Bryan Watkins)

Animation Department
John Lally	....	animator

Music Department
Jeff Seitz	....	music recordist

Other crew
Janeen Anderson	....	promoter: SCEA
Donna Armentor	....	promoter: SCEA
Shelley Ashitomi	....	marketing specialist: SCEA
Miguel Atai	....	spanish localization tester: SCEE
Imogen Baker	....	European pr executive: SCEE
Josh Bingham	....	creative services: SCEA
Ami Blaire	....	marketing director: SCEA
Connie Booth	....	director of product development: SCEA
Ryan Bowling	....	public relations: SCEA
Ben Briones	....	technical coordinator: SCEA
Chris Caprio	....	quality assurance manager: SCEA
Bruce Cochrane	....	quality assurance supervisor: SCEA
Kirsten Costello	....	legal and intellectual property: SCEA
John Crompton	....	market researcher: SCEA
Ian Cunliffe	....	tester: SCEE
Christian Davis	....	database coordinator: SCEA
John Diamonon	....	creative services: SCEA
Aimee Duell	....	promoter: SCEA
Tim Duzmal	....	quality assurance supervisor: SCEA
Paul French	....	TRC auditor: SCEE
Paul French	....	tester: SCEE
Peggy Gallagher	....	creative services: SCEA
Phil Green	....	lead tester: SCEE
John Hale	....	TRC auditor: SCEE
Brian Hastings	....	inventor: A.C.T. system
Brian Hastings	....	vice president of programming
Kerry Hopkins	....	legal and intellectual property: SCEA
Elodie Hummel	....	localization coordinator: SCEE
Stephanie Iwamasa	....	public relations: SCEA
Ted Jalbert	....	creative services: SCEA
Nad ge Josa	....	french localization tester: SCEE
Michael Kennedy	....	tester: SCEE
Britta Kuhnen	....	german localization tester: SCEE
Quinn Le	....	creative services: SCEA
Ga lle Leysour	....	french localization tester: SCEE
Lisa Lunger	....	legal and intellectual property: SCEA
Marie Macaspac	....	creative services: SCEA
Jim McCabe	....	testing supervisor: SCEE
Ian McEvoy	....	tester: SCEE
Carl McKane	....	tester: SCEE
Melissa Miller	....	production coordinator: Universal Interactive Studios
Conner Morlang	....	quality assurance supervisor: SCEA
Stephen O'Neill	....	packaging and manual design: SCEE (as Steve O-Neill)
Charlotte Panther	....	public relations: SCEA
Susana Paredes	....	spanish localization tester: SCEE
David Parkinson	....	internal quality assurance manager: SCEE (as Dave Parkinson)
Prity Patel	....	marketing: Universal Interactive Studios
Eileen Rodriguez	....	public relations: SCEA
Riley Russell	....	legal and intellectual property: SCEA
Jim Sangster	....	copywriter: SCEE
Ruth Sato	....	creative services: SCEA
Sharon Shapiro	....	promoter: SCEA
Molly Smith	....	public relations: SCEA
Sam Thompson	....	technical coordinator: SCEA
Isabelle Tomatis	....	European product manager: SCEE
Domenico Visone	....	italian localization tester: SCEE
Marilyn Weyant	....	creative services: SCEA
Jim Wilson	....	senior v.p. and general manager: Universal Interactive Studios
Vanessa Wood	....	localization manager: SCEE
Shuhei Yoshida	....	vice president of product development: SCEA

Thanks
Bruce Adams	....	special thanks
Nora Branning	....	extra special thanks
Claudette Castillo	....	special thanks
Cynthia Cleveland	....	special thanks
Ron Eagle	....	special thanks
Aly Farrow	....	extra special thanks
Phil Harrison	....	special thanks
Peter Hastings	....	extra special thanks
Kaz Hirai	....	special thanks
Andrew House	....	special thanks
Michael Huang	....	extra special thanks
Chuck Lacson	....	special thanks
Maggie Rojas	....	special thanks
Steve Ross	....	special thanks
Joni Toney	....	special thanks
Jack Tretton	....	special thanks
Mark Valledor	....	special thanks
Tony Wong	....	special thanks (as Toney Wong)

Production Companies

• Cerny Games
• Insomniac Games
• Sony Computer Entertainment America
• Universal Interactive Studios

Distributors

• Sony Computer Entertainment America (2000) (USA) (all media)

Other Companies

• Insomniac Games  created and developed by
• Warner Brothers Post-Production Services  sounds

Also Known As:

"Spyro the Dragon 3: Year of the Dragon" - USA (complete title)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:E

Company:

Cerny Games

Trivia:

Some of the NCP characters were named after things. e.g some dragons are named after musicians. - Coltrane - John Coltrane - Bruce - Bruce Springstein - Miles - Miles Davis - Dizzy - Dizzy Gillespie - Duke - Duke Elington - John - John Lenon - Mingus - Charles Mingus - Chet - Chet Atkins - Thelonious - Thelonious Monk - Herbi - Herbi Hancock - Frank - Frank Sinatra - Brubeck - Dave Bruebeck - Stuart - Stuart Copeland (drummer of the Police, wrote music for Spyro Games) - Charlie - Charlie Parker - Al - Weird Al Yankovic Several of the baby Dragons are named after other people. - Sanders - Colonel Sanders - Cerny - Mark Cerny, Game Producer and Designer - Shemp - a villain from Spyro 1. - Sigfried & Roy - Jonah - From The Bible, swallowed by a big fish (whale). And two others Tara Croft = Lara Croft of Tomb Raider and Prince Azrael the Cat Wizard = named after the wizard cat in the Smurfs.

Goofs:

Factual errors: During Gameplay as Sheila the Kangaroo, Sheila can perform a very high jump, at the top of this jump, her legs are in different positions as compared to each other. Kangaroos legs are built so they are always lined up to each other.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Bianca:We managed to capture the eggs your highness. Every one.
The Sorceress:Excellent. Perhaps you will amount to something after all. Now go back to the tunnels, stop anyone from coming through!

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Apocalypse Now (1979)

"I still love this one."

I love playing the entire series, they are really interactive. Lots of really neat settings and good villains. I haven't finished much of this one yet, but it's fun playing it. Anyway, it's not the finish that's much of importance, it's your journey that it's important. Well, the journey is really fun, and full of surprises. It works well like the first two, although it is quite like the second one because it has some of the same themes, like the mini-games and characters to talk with. But still, it's very effective. I really enjoyed playing this one, as I did with the first two. I wish they make more "Spyro" games the way they make it like this and the previous two.

9/10.