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The Big
STORIES EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT
01
While we
loved the
nostalgia trip
Vicarious
Visions’
brilliant
Crash
Bandicoot
N.Sane Trilogy took us on in 2017, it
felt like a little something was
missing. Back in PS1’s glory days,
the Crash saga wasn’t truly
complete without Crash Team Racing
- and happily that game is now
getting its own remake, courtesy of
the steady hands over at Beenox.
In 1999 a lot of us spent many a
day racing against our friends and
family on Crash’s crazy tracks,
pitting the speed of Tiny Tiger
against the precision of Polar. The
quirky world design from the
platformers translated well into
thrilling track designs; things like the
Aku-Aku shield and – of course – the
abundance of crates made for some
great power-ups, and the presence
of a deep-feeling single-player story
mode really made the experience
feel like it had the edge on the kart
racing competition. Even on PS1 it
was quite the Bandicoot-sized
package, but things are getting an
even stronger fuel injection in the
Nitro-Fueled remaster.
DREAM MACHINE
“I was a huge fan of the Crash
Bandicoot series at the time, so you
can imagine my excitement when I
heard a brand-new kart racing game
starring Crash was coming out!”
shares Thomas Wilson, Beenox’s
creative director, on the PlayStation
blog, remembering when the original
came out. For him, his team being
asked to handle this remake was a
dream come true. “Fast forward
many years. Our studio gets the
proposition, ‘How would you guys
feel about remastering CTR?’ I
remember pausing for a second.
And then I blurted out: ‘You’re
kidding, right?’”
The team behind the early 2010s
Spider-Man games such as the
beloved Shattered Dimensions,
Beenox might not necessarily seem
the obvious choice for Crash Team
Racing Nitro-Fueled. But its games
A kart Crash we
just can’t look
away from
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
pimps the Bandicoot’s ride on PS
10 A NEW AGE
Dragon Age 4? We expect questions.
12 GET OVER HERE
Mortal Kombat 11 is even more brutal.
18 OFF THE BEATEN PATH
Loved Abzû? The Pathless is for you.
Few games transport
us back to the joys of
playing on PS1 quite
like the first CTR.