
This is Crash as we know and tolerate him, albeit with fancier lighting effects. With original developers Naughty Dog passing on the chance to produce a PS2 version, Travellers Tales have created this effort, and in terms of gameplay, there’s no progression here whatsoever. Never less than fun, yet never a realistic contender when compared against the genre-defining Mario 64, Crash has sometimes received a fairly rough ride from the press. Over the few years before his PS2 debut, Crash Bandicoot: the Wrath of Cortex, he’s appeared in various PSone titles–usually Mario wannabe platformers, but there’ve also been blatant Mario Party and Mario Kart rip-offs in the shapes of Crash Bash and Crash Team Racing.



Crash Bandicoot is a bargain basement Taz, a capering, rolling-eyed dingo-like creature.
