Electronic Gaming Monthly's Top 12 Crash Bandicoot Games
51Although he was a little late to the party, Crash Bandicoot made quite an entrance. He helped balance out the PlayStation’s early line-up, giving Sony a platforming hero to go up against the likes of Mario and Sonic. With Crash Team Rumble coming out this year and all this nostalgia for the earlier entries, it made me wonder what Electronic Gaming Monthly thought of the series. What was their favorite Crash game?
Now, in case you’re wondering, EGM reviewed a total of twelve games in the Crash Bandicoot series between 1996 and 2008. This includes pretty much everything from the main franchise, the racing games, the portable spin-offs and even the party packs. Unfortunately, they missed out on both Crash of the Titans in 2007 and Crash: Mind Over Mutant in 2008. Thankfully, they covered almost everything else. What we're going to do today is countdown the best and worst Crash Bandicoot games using Electronic Gaming Monthly’s own words and scores. There’s no editorializing here, we’re going to focus on what the critics said back when these games first came out. And I cannot stress that enough for this episode. You’ll see what I mean. So, get ready to get dizzy collecting all that wumpa fruit, because today we’re counting down Electronic Gaming Monthly’s top 12 Crash Bandicoot games.
0:00 – Introduction
1:32 – Commercial: Crash Bandicoot (U.S.)
2:04 – Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (PS2)
2:57 – Crash Tag Team Racing (PS2, GCN & Xbox)
3:54 – Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (Xbox)
4:57 – Crash Nitro Kart (PS2, GCN & Xbox)
5:47 – Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure (GBA)
8:04 – Commercial: Crash Bandicoot 2 (U.S.)
8:37 – Crash Bash (PS1)
9:25 – Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced (GBA)
10:20 – Crash Bandicoot (PS1)
11:05 – Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (PS1)
11:43 – Crash Bandicoot: Warped (PS1)
12:16 – CTR: Crash Team Racing (PS1)
12:57 – Commercial: Crash Bandicoot Warped (U.S.)
13:28 – Question of the Day
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