Overall 8.9 Graphics 7.7 Sound 6.7 Addictive 8.3 Story 6 Depth 7.3 Difficulty 6.7
9.2
Crash hits the road in probaly the best racer you can get for your GBA today.... RedHotToddy
It seems that the last crash game I reviewed was not the last, In 2003, they released a crash racing game for the Game boy advance, this game is called Crash nitro kart, will this game be an awesome great kart racer? Or will it be another game to add to the shelf? Let's just go ahead and find out.
Story-7/10
This story of this game seems to be that Crash and his friends are just relaxing back at the house, then suddenly a beam of light abducts the house, Our hero crash takes off his shades and realizes that this isn't just a beam of light, It's an alien abduction! That's right, an evil emperor by the name of velo is kidnapping Crash and friends and is forcing them to compete in his Intergalactic racing tournament, this time, It's up to Crash and his friends to race for their lives and get out of Velo's world!
Gameplay-8/10
Crash nitro kart plays like a bunch of other kart racers on the Game boy advance, except for one thing, the way this game is played reminds me alot of Cartoon network speedway for the Game boy advance, mainly because The game puts your from behind your character. But anyways, this game offers quite alot of modes. Adventure mode takes you the game's storyline, Quick race lets you race on any track for fun, VS mode lets you play with a friend via link cable, And Time trial mode lets you play through any track by yourself trying to get the best time. Anyways, in adventure mode, you will be going through 4 big distinct worlds, each offering 4 different challenges, Trophy race, which has you racing through the track to finish in first place, Time trial mode which has you racing through the track on the fastest time possible to win a time relic, CNK challenges which have you racing through the track while collecting the letters C N and K and finishing in first place to win a CNK token, And last but not least, Crystal challenges which have you driving around a big area collecting 20 crystals, collecting all crystals awards you with a purple token, failing to collect all the crystals awards you nothing. After collecting all trophies in a world, you are awarded with a chance to fight the boss in the world, the bosses are pretty hard and will require much more skill and strategy to beat. There are two stories to play through, Team bandicoot, which features Crash bandicoot, Coco bandicoot, and Crunch bandicoot, These are the good guys, so you'll wanna choose them. But on the other hand, there is also the evil Team cortex, which features, Dr neo cortex, Tiny tiger, and N gin.
Graphics-8/10
Wow! The graphics in this racer are quite nice. I mean sure it may be hard to see some things, but overall it still does look pretty nice, especially considering that this is the Game boy advance, so you gotta cut it some slack there. But all the worlds tracks and locales you'll be exploring are bursting with vibrant color. Except for one thing, each of the characters you'll be controlling and racing as all feel kind of the same, not that it's a bad thing. I mean in games like Mario kart, all the characters all feel different from each other, making it more fun to race as them. Nah! I'm just kidding, if I remember correctly, all the characters in this game has "Stats", which go in 3 different categories, Speed, Handling, and Acceleration. The HUD in each race is self explanatory, the top left hand corner shows your current position the race and the top 4 racers, and the top right hand corner of the screen shows how much wumpa fruit you have currently, the current lap in the race, and a big map of the race track. I say, this is pretty nice for a Mario kart clone.
Sound-7/10
The soundtrack, one of the reasons why I really love crash bandicoot. All the music in this game is OK...nothing really to write home about, Not to be negative or anything, but some of the songs and I say SOME of the songs can get quite forgettable and repetitive, one example is the boss theme for whenever you're racing a boss, It keeps looping itself. There's nothing wrong with repetition if it's done right. A high point of the game though, is that it uses voice clips from the characters! For example, when crash gets slowed down in the race, he will shout out the phrase "WOAH!" Or when he speeds of a ramp or turbo, he will say "WOW-WEE!" I say, all the voices are well done for a Game boy advance game! The game also uses awesome voice actors too, Crash and velo are voiced by Steven jay blum of Cowboy bebop and naruto fame, Cortex is voiced by Clancy brown of Spongebob squarepants fame. This is just excellently done!
Addictiveness-9/10
The game is quite fun for a kart racer, It has alot of charm and whatnot to keep you coming back for more. This is the kind of game that you will NEVER EVER want to shelve, It's just too innocent for that kind of stuff! I also have had alot of fun playing with my friends Via link cable! I mean seriously, Racing against your friends, how can that not be fun?
Depth-10/10
This game just has SOOOOOOOO much to offer for the player! The adventure mode mostly, It tooks me about 3 weeks to 100% the whole entire game! This is why whenever I review a crash game, I always rate it a Ten in the depth value, Because there is simply so much to do in a crash game It never gets tiring. So in general, crash games will always be remembered for their insane amount of replay value...Am I right everybody? Btw, VS mode never gets stale too....
Difficulty-5/10
In my honest opinion, the game isn't really that hard to play through. Except for some of those time trial challenges, they can really get me at times! But mostly it's the bosses that can give me a hard time more then anything else....
Overall-9.2/10
In general, I recommend you play this game! It is without a doubt the best kart racer you can get on the market today! Heck, for the Game boy advance that is. So I gave this game a 9.2 because how additively fun it is and how much it offers for you. So that is if for this review! Buy this game now!
Graphics 8 Sound 7 Addictive 9 Story 7 Depth 10 Difficulty 5
Review Rating: 3/5
Submitted: 07-07-13
Review Replies: 2
6.4
Crash Nitro Kart Review Zircron Swift
If you thought that Crash Team Racing was the end of it for Crash in a car, then you were wrong. Somewhat 4 years later after the release of the original, they released a new racing game in the Crash Universe: Crash Nitro Kart. Don't get me wrong, the first racing game was pretty decent. With music that suited racing and bright and vivid graphics, I'm sure the sequel (if you want to call it that) would be just as fun. But don't you think one racing game in Crash Banicoot is enough? All we'll see is a few new power-ups, lots of tracks that are hardly rateable to the Crash Universe, and a ton of new characters that you have never heard of before. And looks like I was right. Although the trailer looked decent, and you could drive up-side down, it just didn't motivate me to play it....mainly because it was on the Xbox and PS2, the two consoles I didn't want to own. But when it came on the GBA, I was looking forward to it.
So the story is....I don't know. The intro on the GBA was very limited. It tells me that Crash, Coco, AkuAku and Crunch get abducted and are forced to race for what seems like no reason. However, the Xbox one was more detailed, although I didn't read it as much. This competition determines who the next empire of the galaxy, or something like that. Why must it resort to something in space? Anyway, you accept, not like you have a choice or anything, and, well, drive. Depending on what team you choice (Team good, or Team Evil), the dialog will be slightly different, and endings will vary.
Much like Crash Team Racing, you race around a hub world to other races. You collect trophies to disable the force-field blocking you from other levels (because this is the most logical reason), thus progressing as you collect more trophies. You can get these trophies by winning first place in a race in the area. The races are executed fairly well. One thing to note is the starting lights are triangles, which is odd for a racing game. As you race, you break boxes to get weapons to use against your opponent. You also collect wumpa fruit to make you go faster. When you collect the max amount of wumpa fruit, you go slightly faster, I've never seen the difference. Also, if you happen to have 10 wumpa fruit, and you collect a weapon, that weapon will be stronger then normal.
A nice thing is that you can snake pretty much anywhere in the track. You can drift and get three boosts in one go, but drift too long and you'll spin around. It's tricky to get used to, but provides a great bonus. Despite this, the difficulty and controls are hard for beginners. I found myself losing several times on the first and second race. It almost seemed impossible....Hey wait a moment, is that Nitrus Oxide? Didn't he leave Earth and vowed never to return or race again after being defeated? and he was so ashamed that he was defeated, that I'm almost certain that he would keep it. So why the hell is he back? It's nice you can play as him (unlike the original, in which is was impossible, country to popular belief), but seriously, please keep with plot lines and keep them. There isn't even a reason for it.
The graphics are decent. You can see they were trying to make good graphics, the colours were vivid, the backgrounds were nice to look at, and the way you drive and the way the track was rendered was great, but there seems to be missing something. I'm not sure what, but it's missing something. The music isn't that bad, but seems repetitive and not as catchy. The boss races are just plain silly. They start off with repeating releases of TNT boxes, then they go up to repeating releases of Nitrous Boxes, then I don't know what comes the boss after that. It's the same formula as the first game, almost exactly the same in fact, and seems lazy as an idea.
One thing I really have a big problem with is the jumpy speedy things. If you jump exactly at the right time, you'll jump higher, but do it a split second too soon, and you'll jump over it, causing either you falling, or becoming last in a split second. This can be really annoying, but at the same time, helpful. Some of the CPUs actually fall on these jumpy speedy things, giving you an edge. But this could happen to you via a missile hitting you at the right time. This seems unfair.
Another thing that annoys me is Fake Crash. After exploring what seems like every inch of the game, completing everything there was, I couldn't unlock him. I looked on the internet for some leeway on what could be done to unlock him, but all I could find is this fake cheat that tells me I have to do 51 drift boosts in a row in Team Evil. I didn't know how this would work, so I tried what I could, but nothing. I gave up. Then, seven years later, I found a video telling me that I could find Fake Crash in a track. This never occurred to me to go on an accrual track to unlock him. It was one of the desert levels, and you had to go out of the track itself to find him. This was one of the things you would never find out on your own, unless you really did explore every inch of the game.
You can unlock cheats, which you can use in time attack as well as the story mode. You could be small, be light thus jumping higher, have extra speed, even have infinite bombs at the start. These are nice end-game cheats, but even if you used this for time trail, and entered the code on the website, it wouldn't matter. People lie on it, and get ridiculously short times like 3 seconds, as there is no proof of you doing it.
Overall, I give it a 6.4/10 It's a decent game, but something see,s to be missing that makes a good game. The music, the game play, the graphics, they all seem to be missing something that would give it its edge. It's worth a play, even if it is flawed. I think the Xbox and PS2 versions are better, but this is a good substitute. I hate it when hand held consoles have limited versions of a game....
Graphics 7 Sound 6 Addictive 7 Story 4 Depth 5 Difficulty 8
Review Rating: 3/5
Submitted: 12-09-11
Review Replies: 3
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