At long last, Rare has finally released information on the much anticipated threequel to the Banjo-Kazooie franchise.

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts(as it is now called) will take the series in a new, innovative direction. Rest assured it will still be a platformer, but this time around much of the gameplay will involve crafting your own vehicle and using it to perform various tasks( like finding Jiggies of course). People will have the option of choosing hundreds of different parts and building their own car, boat, plane or helicopter…How cool is that!

The story of course sounds Banjo-esque and is sure to include all that wacky British humor. A higher power (dubbed the Lord of the Games, who apparently created every video game ever made) holds a contest of sorts between Banjo(and Kazooie) and Gruntilda for the ownership of Spiral Mountain(the hub world from the previous games for those who aren’t familiar with Banjo). I assume Banjo(being the good guy) competes for ownership to keep things as is, while Gruntilda(now reduced to a skull in a robot suit) wants to construct shopping malls and whatnot, destroying Spiral Mountain in the process. Quite wacky indeed.

Rareware has also announced that the game will have multi-player via xbox live! Players can take their customized vehicle online and challenge others to races and other competitions.

So as you can probably tell I’m pretty goosed up for this game, but how could I not be, it has Mumbo Jumbo in it!