The turns are optimized, the circuits work to be controlled. If Mario Kart can change position in the race, at almost any time, here, just as in Sonic Racing, all movements, trajectories, risk-taking count. It really takes a lot to train to get through all the challenges that the game offers. The bonus items that we collect from the crates with question marks barely help us. They’re going to have to learn the hard way, like we did 20 years ago. No driving aids on the other hand to possibly help new players. Accelerations, jumps that turn into Drift or Boost, it’s all there. Well, CTR’s handling has been taken over to perfection. It’s nice all this content, but what about when you have the controller in hand? To finish the enumerations, know that the game has 25 characters and 31 circuits (30 on Xbox One and Nintendo Switch). The Playstation version features some exclusives such as Retros skins (where Crash, Coco and Neo Cortex appear with very few polygons as at the time), and an additional Retro Playstation circuit. A local Single Race and Battle mode playable online in lobbies of 8 players or with friends.An elaborate single-player adventure mode with 3 difficulty modes.Time Trial, Relic Race, CTR Challenge, Crystal Challenge solo playable modes.Local Grand Prix, Single Race and Battle modes playable for up to 4 players.This title contains all the original CTR modes: Sane Trilogy was released a few months later on Steam PC, there is no doubt that this kart game will also arrive on this platform. A lot of content !Ĭrash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled is directed by our Quebec City neighbours, the Beenox studio, owned by Activision, and is released on Playstation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. But Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled (CTR:NF) is not just a remake of the first CTR: it also contains the characters and circuits of Crash Nitro Kart, a sequel released by Vivendi/Activision after buying the franchise. We arrived in 2019, 20 years later, for a remake of this game that surfs on the success of the original trilogy redone 2 years ago. Some editions of the game were also sold with a Multitap, an accessory that allowed you to add controller ports to your Playstation 1. It was in this context that Crash Team Racing arrived, with a playable 4-screen multiplayer mode on a split screen, a rarity at the time.
They had developed many techniques to achieve Crash Bandicoot 1, 2 and 3.Īt the time Mario Kart 64 was out, and many competitors were trying in the genre without ever being able to match nintendo’s kart game. Released in 1999 on Playstation 1, Crash Team Racing (CTR) was the result of Naughty Dog’s mastery of the console hardware.