Xbox

Crash Nitro Kart

The visuals are brightly colored and smoothly animated, though the Xbox?s more powerful hardware offers slightly cleaner graphics over the PS2 version's. Otherwise, the gameplay and control mechanics are identical. Both games also include clear and entertaining character chatter with star appearances from such voice actors as Debi Derryberry (the voice of Jimmy Neutron) and Billy West (Futurama, Ren & Stimpy).

If you don’t care for the entire “kart-racing” genre, this game will not make you feel differently. The best way for me to describe it is the same of everything you love about kart games rolled into one. There is nothing shockingly new here, and it’s an iffy $50 purchase if you are the fence on this one, but nevertheless, I believe that I got my money’s worth in the end.

The release of Crash Nitro Kart less than a week before Mario Kart Double Dash!! lands on the GameCube doesn't seem like a coincidence. Crash Nitro Kart may not be biggest kart-racing game for the GameCube, but if you're a kart-racing fan with an Xbox or PlayStation 2, Crash Nitro Kart is the best option to come along in a long while. It's a totally respectable kart-racing game on its own, regardless of how derivative it may be.

CNK is a solid adaptation of a PSOne game. The problem is that the same exact game has been made dozens of times and CNK does very little to further the cause. It's a kart racing game like any other.

Wäre nur alles so einfach: Um die Welt vor Imperator Velo zu retten, muss Crash Bandicoot den Unhold auf der Rennpiste besiegen. Der Weg dorthin ist beschwerlich und mit Extras wie Raketen und Geschwindigkeits-Boostern gepflastert. Sie dürfen auch den böswilligen Dr. Neo Cortex steuern und Ihren Renngegnern ab und zu kopfüber ein Schnippchen schlagen. Im Mehrspielermodus konkurrieren bis zu vier Spieler. Geschwindigkeitstechnisch hätte der überdurchschnittliche Party-Renner allerdings noch einen Zahn zulegen können.

Nitro Kart features colorful, clean graphics and bouncy music. Play control is also very responsive. The tracks are unique and include places where you can drive up walls and around upside down corkscrew loops. You can also compete in multiplayer races and battle modes. If you liked Crash Team Racing, or silly racing games in general, then you'll enjoy Crash Nitro Kart.

Nitro retains the same basic gameplay as its popular predecessor Crash Team Racing (CTR) on the Playstation, but what happened to all the fun?! Like the last Crash offering, Wrath of Cortex, new developers have managed to capture the look of the original game but failed to replicate the exciting, addictive action. The graphics look nice, but the new "features" stink, and the racing is incomprehensibly slow and laborious. There are really no innovations over the original CTR, and some of the tracks look almost exactly the same!