History of the Crash Bandicoot series. Part 4.

Already tomorrow – June 18, the exhibition E3 will close. One (not the most) of the best conferences was from Sony. It was at their conferences that the long-awaited Snemnue 3 was announced, RE-Anons The Last Guardian, Horizon, and T made re-anons.D. But guys, I think a lot of people have been waiting for the announcement of Crash Bandicoot. So many hints, fakes, but not happened. I am in sorrow.

But oh well, let’s move directly to the article itself. During the invasion of articles about announcements on E3, today I will continue to tell you about the series Crash Bandicoot. The next and full -fledged game of the series was Crash Twinsanity.

Crash Twinsanity

The game was again developed by Traveller’s Tales. The game was released on October 1, 2004 in North America, October 8 in Europe and November 9 in Japan. The version was also planned for Nintendo GameCube, but it was canceled for unknown reasons.

Critics took the game very mixed, but the players really liked the game.

Development of the game

Video buildings of the game were created by Red Eye Studios, which also worked on rollers for Crash Nitro Kart. The soundtrack Twinsanity was composed, executed, organized and fully produced by the Spiralmouth group, singing a chapel, t.e. without the use of any musical instruments, except for their own votes.

Now Clansy Brown replaced Lex Lang. The director gave him the speech of neo cortex, as well as Brown’s speech. The director with Lex is described by the cortex as follows: “The personification of evil with a slightly frivolous feminine side, which follows from its long emotional speeches”. The players really liked the change in the character.

The action takes place 3 years after the events of The Wrath of Cortex. One fine day Coco walked in the forest. Suddenly Cortex notices Coco and paralyzes it. Having disguised as Coco (and not very good), the cortex lures Crash into a trap and begins to attack it using a ziro-bank. He does not manage to destroy Crash, then Cortex calls the Mecha-Bandicoot robot.

As a result, the bot gets out of control and falls into the cave of touching the cortex, and that, in turn, Crash. They are in the depths of the cave. Neo cortex is furious and rushes at Krasha. The confrontation lasts until the exit from the cave.

Having got out, the path of Crash and Cortex blocks the two mutated parrots-like creatures of turquoise color. They call themselves as "evil twins". Their intentions, as they informed at the meeting – the complete destruction of the island N.Sanity. Having also learned that the evil twins arrived from the tenth dimension, Cortex invites Crash to do the next search for crystals. This time, their energy was important for the invention of Cortex – Psychetron. This machine is specialized in the movement by measurements. She could allow them to get into the tenth dimension, where they can get rid of the twins. But there was no energy.

During the search for crystals, Crash recalls that one day Cortex asked the hero to find crystals to “save the world”. Despite this, they continue to look for crystals.

As soon as two crystals were found, the cortex with Crash again arrived at his scientific complex, since the energy of one crystal was not enough to supply Psychetron’a. Coco interferes to install crystals, which at that time was sure that he had abducted Crash. She hits the cortex who, falling, falling, loses crystals. Car damage occurs. During a problem, the powerful bundle of energy Psychetron’a paralyzes it again. Repeated establishment of energy sources at that time was impossible. However, there is one single person who could help them. It was his niece – Nina. To find it, they needed to go to the Academy of Evil named after Madame Amberly. Later, while at the Academy, Cortex establishes the personality of evil twins. He remembered who they were: then it was his experimental home parrots on which he experienced one of his inventions. Later, having been an unknown way in another dimension, they began to mutate due to the irradiation of excessive dose of radiation. Nina manages to install crystals and Psychetron is supplied with the necessary energy; Then it was possible to use it. Cortex and Crash went to the tenth dimension. This place is completely opposite to the earthly world, amazing, but dangerous and unknown. Staying in this dimension was not safe. Evil twins were soon defeated. They manage to leave, but a little later they will be eaten by an evil Crash, which was in the tenth dimension the opposite of Crash.

The adventure is over. Despite the fact https://piratespinscasino.org/ that they helped each other Cortex do not want to allege with Crash anymore and decides to get rid of Crash, throwing it into the tenth dimension. But the plan collapses again. Psychetron stops working. Because of this, the cortex enters the mind of Crash. The game ends.

Ending at 100% passage of the game

Crash and Cortex go to a psychiatrist. Kepsha sees a vamp lying on the floor and rushes at him and the cortex fell from the chair and says “I hate bandicuts” and then falls from the chair again.

The game is significantly different from the past games of the series. Now the game is open game world. As well as in the game Naughty Dog – Jak and Daxter, you can control the second character – Cortex. And at the Academy of Evil Cortex is the only playable character. The most funny thing is now guarded by the decree. Crash management is quite similar to what was in previous games, but, despite this, he also has several completely new actions. It is necessary to receive gems scattered everywhere to open various additional materials, mainly concept arts.

Crash can use cortex as a hammer and even a skate; spin with him a wolf; throw doctors through large pits to activate switches. If the bandit throws the cortex to the wrong place, but to some abyss, then he may not at all worry about his life, because neo is able to skillfully teleport back. It is worth noting that there are exceptions – places where it is necessary to first clear the path for the doctor, so that he does not die and the game does not begin with the last saved point. At the first levels, Crash and Cortex begin to fight, as is usually shown in cartoons, forming a spinning ball called in the ally -linguistic countries of Rollerbrawl. The player must manage a quarreling couple, trying to prevent them from encountering various deadly obstacles, and bring them to the desired purpose.

Another controlled character is the niece of neo – Nina Cortex. For attacks of enemies, she uses her mechanical hands and, in addition, can climb the walls. In the final of the game, Crash sits in the fur bandcut and fights against the robot of evil twins using plasma attacks. Thus, the gangster fur becomes the last playable character.

Crash Twinsanity was the last game of the series from Traveller’s Tales.

Crash Nitro

And again the game was taken with mixed reviews. Perhaps I will not particularly go into details. The game was released in 2003. The developer was Vicarious Visions. The game is an indirect continuation Team Racing.

A racing video game, where the player has to manage the characters of the Universe of Crash Bandikut, most of which go on the maps. Acceleration is one of the significant parts of the gameplay. When the player accelerates his cards, he begins to go a little faster, unlike his usual speed. There are several ways to get acceleration. One of them is special accelerating pillows placed throughout all tracks. After passing these pillows, you, accordingly, increase the speed card. In addition, you can also increase the speed by holding gas at the start at the right time, which helps to break forward well.

In a regular sunny day, Crash and his friends calmly rested in his house, while Cortex and his minions were preparing to fulfill the next sinister plan, in particular, to destroy the bandcuts and seize the planet. Suddenly, both groups are abducted by mysterious white light, which transfers them to a huge Colosseum located somewhere in the among another galaxy. It turns out that this galaxy is controlled by the emperor cyxvii, who plans to arrange races to entertain his wards. Cycles promises to earthlings that if they win races, they will win their freedom, but at the same time threatens them with the destruction of their planet, if they do not agree to participate in the races. After both teams forcibly agree to participate, it explains the rules – riders need to go through four different worlds selected by its taste. If earthlings defeat all the champions of these worlds, then they will be able to fight in the final race against the galactic champion itself.

Further fate of the series

According to one of the ideas of Traveller’s Tales was the game Crash Clash Racing, which fully continuing the storyline Crash Twinsanity. The concept of the game included a new part of the gameplay – the merger of two racing cars into one. The plot focused on the Bandikuta family, which goes on a journey inside Crash to remove the no -stuck cortex from there from there.

But later the game was handed over to Radical Entertainment. This company, in turn, almost completely changes the essence of the project, leaving only the basic principle of gameplay: “clash” and “fusion” of two racing machines. This game was the first in the series to be developed by Radical Entertainment, published by Sierra Entertainment and made on the new Titanium Engine engine. In addition, it was renamed Crash Tag Team Racing.

About Tag Team Racing, I will only say that the game was released in 2005 on PS2 and PSP. The game was accepted mixedly, but despite this, the development of the next game was given again to Radical. The next game of the series was Crash of the Titans.

Crash of the Titans

The game reached the PlayStation 2, WII and Xbox 360, but the main platform of the game was Xbox. The publication of the game "Monster Edition", released on October 12, 2007, was distributed only in Europe and only on PlayStation 2. It included videos about creating a game, water tattoos, tips, a list of cheat codes and a trailer with E3 in several languages. Due to moderate cartoon cruelty and dialogues, Crash of the Titans received PG rating. The saddest thing is that the game was translated into Russian only to PlayStation 2.

The game began to receive mixed reviews before the start of its release. Critics have discovered the short duration of COT, although the very diversity of the game caused quite positive assessments, when at the same time in the reviews, too little fascinating moments were often noted in the reviews. Despite the mediocre reaction, Crash of the Titans was nominated for two awards.

Crash of the Titans events take place after Crash Twinsanity. At the beginning of the game, Crash helps Coco with its oil processing device. Suddenly, Dr. Neo Cortex flies on his airship and catches Coco and Aku ok in cocoon, simultaneously sincering the tag of ice to a small piece of ice. Crash throws the Coco device into the airship, thereby cutting off the chain holding the cage with AKU AKU, which is why it falls somewhere in the forest. After Crash saves a good spirit, they will learn together that Cortex and indicate the Mojo from the temple nearby. Bandikut and Aku Aku decide to stop them. On the way to the temple, Cortex reveals its original plan for the use of stolen Mojo: the creation of a army of faithful mutants, which should build a huge robot called Duminator. In turn, the duminator must destroy the vamp of the island, and then capture the whole world. When Cortex suffers another defeat from Crash with his cyborg yuktopus (yuktopus), he does not lose heart and begins to brag about that this red-haired animal animal can never find his base, and then leaves, leaving the bandit and oak oaku behind.

On the basis, indicates the next unsuccessful attempt of Cortex to destroy Crash and immediately shifts the doctors with his niece, Nina Cortex, despite all the protests of. Gina and Tiger Tigi. Nina “rinses the brains” Coco and makes her take part in the construction of the duminator. Meanwhile, Crash and Aku AKU find and interrogate about the whereabouts of Coco Tiger Tinhi, then N. Gina and finally decree. Upon learning, the bandit collides with Nina inside the Duminator, after which the cortex niece is called her cyborg arachnin and begins the battle with Crash. In the end, the bandit destroys the robot, at the same time freeing Coco and blowing up the duminator. Returning home, the bandits celebrate their next victory, as well as the first word of Crash in the entire series – pancakes (English. Pancakes), which, incidentally, became the main food on this little feast.

Crash starts a game with three lives. Когда полоска с его жизнью, уменьшающаяся от ударов врагов или столкновений с различными препятствиями, оканчивается, то теряется одна жизнь. The player can replenish the strip with the lives of Crash by eating fruit. Having collected 25,000 pieces of a magical substance of Mujo or finding a rare type of golden vamp of fruit, you will replenish Crash life for one piece. After the last life is lost, the opportunity is given to outplay the episode again.

At the end of each episode, the player is given a rank for his passage: bronze, silver or golden doll voodoo. The significance of the rank depends on the number of defeated opponents, the minimum of the incurred number of consistent strikes in the battle (Combo), and whether all three robotic toilets are destroyed at the level. These three tasks should be completely (or as best as possible) are made to obtain a golden doll voodoo. In addition, in the middle of levels you can also find hidden Voodoo dolls that open concept art for episodes.

While previous games of the series are known to the belief of Crash with a wolf, as well as gliding and jumping over enemies, in this part there are more types of attacks in this part. Initially, Cot Crash has light and heavy blows, and is also able to dodge other people’s attacks (after salvation, AKU also put a shield on them) and punch enemy blocks. Когда Бандикут побеждает врага или уничтожает какой-либо объект, появляется магическая субстанция моджо. Having collected a sufficient amount of Mujo, Crash receives a new ability or improved existing.

Also in the game appeared Joint mode

A player using the second joystick can at any time join the game with a “white -haired” version of Crash, called Carbon Crash. Carbon Crash appears in the backpack of an ordinary Crash, after which it can both get out of it and come back. No matter what, the second player remains in the backpack if the first climbs the wall or is in the air. The joint game method is quite useful, in particular for a lighter victory over enemies and accelerated motion collection.

So the kids. So this article has ended. It is worth noting that this is the penultimate part of the history of the Crash Bandicoot series. In the next part I will tell you about the Mind Over Mutants and about 2 inferior games.