Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex is the first Crash Bandicoot game for a system other than the original PlayStation. The story is set some time after Warped: Dr. Cortex wants revenge after being defeated by Crash (again). For this purpose, he creates Crunch, a super-bandicoot who can destroy everything that crosses his way. So Crash needs to defeat Crunch (and in the end, Dr. Cortex).

The game is a typical jump and run, with some other action passages, like air combat and a sequence where Crash is trapped inside a giant sphere rolling around in some sort of rollercoaster. All graphics are in 3D, and the sound is typical for cartoon games like this. The whole game is pretty straightforward in design, getting stuck on a puzzle is not really possible.

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Alternate Titles

"Crash Bandicoot: La Vengeance de Cortex" -- French title
"Crash Bandicoot: La Venganza de Cortex" -- Spanish title
"Crash Bandicoot: De Wraak van Cortex" -- Dutch title
"Crash Bandicoot: Der Zorn des Cortex" -- German title
"Crash Bandicoot 4: Sakuretsu! Majin Power" -- Japanese title
"Crash Bandicoot 4" -- Informal title
"CB: WoC" -- Common abbreviation
"クラッシュ・バンディクー4 さくれつ！魔神パワー" -- Japanese spelling

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Crash Bandicoot Wrath of Cortex	Xbox	$6.73
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Not as lackluster as everyone says it is!!!!

Weston Sharpensteen (30)

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The Press Says

Xboxdynasty (XD)	Apr 02, 2005	8.4 out of 10	84
4Players.de	Jun 10, 2002	82 out of 100	82
GamerDad	Jul 20, 2003		80
Game Informer Magazine	May, 2002	7.25 out of 10	72
Game Chronicles	Jul 07, 2002	7.1 out of 10	71
Game Over Online	Jun 06, 2002	70 out of 100	70
IGN	Apr 26, 2002	6.7 out of 10	67
GameSpot	Apr 15, 2002	6.4 out of 10	64
GamePro (US)	May 02, 2002	3 out of 5	60
The Video Game Critic	Apr 26, 2003	C+	58

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Trivia

PlayStation 2 version

The PlayStation 2 Greatest Hits version has quicker load times than the original release.

References to the game

The game didn't sell as well as Universal expected: Eventually the company would reference this in Crash Twinsanity when Dr Cortex confronts a hoard of angry penguins and says "It's been a difficult couple of years Wrath of Cortex didn't sell as well as we'd hope and....Fish?" This is followed by one of the penguins firing a laser gun at Cortex.

Information also contributed by Chris Chidester

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