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Naughty Dog and Sony is bringing us an other successful game in the Crash Bandicoot series. With over 15 millions units already sold in this series we have now an other fine kart racing game with our hero Crash.

Crash Bandicoot world is treated by a cranky space invader called Oxide. He is challenging Crash into a race and if he wins he will turn the world into a parking lot. So you must defeat Oxide in a car kart racing adventure in order to save Crash's World.

In the main menu you have 5 different racing mode. The CTR Adventure is a one player game where you need to collect every Racing Trophy, Relic, Letter, Boss Key, CTR Token and Gem.

Time Trial allows you to practice your handling and control of your Kart because you race against your best time on the track you have selected. No racer or power-ups are in it only the " Ghost of your previous race to race against.

In the Arcade mode you can race 1- 2 players on one or 4 tracks. The 4 tracks in a row is call the Cup race and it allows you to win points.

VS. Mode t is like the Arcade mode except you must have 2 players and up to 4 players can play.

Battle mode lets you fight with up to 4 players on special battles arenas.High Score you can check after a few race to monitor your progress has you race.

Nice tackle

Choose your play in 10 seconds

You can select 8 racer to start with; Crash, Coco, Pura, Dingodile, Tiny, Polar, N.Gin and Dr. Neo Cortex. each of them has their own abilities and skills on different tracks and when you are being successful with one racer it will unlock more racers for you to try.

through the island you have 16 tracks to race on. each of them has their own obstacles, bonus games, weapons and power-ups .

11 weapons and power-ups are available to collect through your race witch will give you excess to secrets like opening oxide spaceship to unlocking a playable demo of Spyro the dragon 2.

While you race your screen has all the element you need to guide you through the from the number of power-up you have collected to the time to your racing time.

It might be compare Mario Kart by some but CTR has plenty to keep your interest for a long time from the nice graphics to a fun new gameplay.

Crash Team Racing is a fun and exiting kart racing game that will entertain you for many hours.

Companies

Developer
www.naughtydog.com

Publisher
Sony
www.playstation.com

Category
Kart racing

Notes

Originality: 89%
Gameplay: 92%
Interest: 88%
Graphic: 93%
Control: 91%
Sound: 90%

TOTAL: 91%

Requirements

Console
PlayStation

Analog Controller
Compatible

Vibration Function
Compatible

Memory Card
1 Block

Multiplayer
1-4 Players

Rated by ESRB
"E" Everyone

Julie Meyer

Golden Lion