Crash of the Titans
Crash Bandicoot is back in his long-awaited latest adventure, now on the Playstation 2! His arch-nemesis Neo Cortex is out for destruction yet again, this time having gotten his hands on a mysterious substance that turns the ordinary creatures of Crash's islands into mutant minions! Fortunately, Crash is on the scene with a whole new skill set including the ability to hijack these same minions and use their powers to his advantage. Take on a whole new world of freaky enemies, challenging puzzles and innovative new tools and powerups as everyone's favorite orange cartoon marsupial!
Crash of the Titans Accessories
 The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night
Ben 10 Protector of the Earth
Spiderman: Friend or Foe
Thrillville: Off the Rails
Crash Bandicoot Action Pack
Spongebob Squarepants: Atlantis Squarepantis
Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal
Mario Party DS
The Simpsons Game
Crash Bandicoot: Twinsanity for PlayStation 2
Crash of the Titans Reviews
My son enjoys the humor in the video clips and thinks the character abilities are "awesome".
Buy it if you are a die-hard Crash fan like me, but for everyone else, I would suggest a trip to the local Blockbuster. But all the levels are kind of the same, the game is easy to beat, and it is just very easy. This game has great graphics, nice character design, and good music. This game adds a douse of combat to the classic Crash Bandicoot performer style.
But I'd have to recommend Over the Hedge more than this game because the various interesting challenges, lots of missions, and tons of unlockable goodies to be found, and great multiplayer. OVERALL: Kids will probably enjoy it, but the more hardcore gamers will not enjoy it so much because the various little bugs that could have been corrected during the game's development. The crappy music is one of the game's low points. MUSIC: It will only bore you, don't even bother trying to enjoy it. Crash of the Titans gives the beleaguered platforming icon; Crash; some new life, but it still has a ways to go before achieving the status the franchise had on the original Playstation and fix the mistakes made by past predecessors (Much like Spyro).
GAMEPLAY: The gameplay is average, but the monster jacking feature; a feature in which an enemy that is near death can be commandeered, ridden, and forced to do your bidding by defeating enemies and solving environmental puzzles; is a welcome feature that is a lot of fun and feels innovative, but it can't cover up all of the lackluster gameplay. I found it to be fairly enjoyable, but it still has a lot of things to fix before the franchise can truly be restored, but the game's saving graces are co-op play, monster jacking, decent graphics, and some moderately interesting challenges. But this game got lucky with me, usually I'm not kind at all to kids games which is why I went down in infamy for my review of The Bible Game which earned me a large group of haters and not-so-nice comments from angry parents. But, most of the features work properly, but they still need more polish because the game feels undercooked and shallow. GRAPHICS: Cute, cartoony look with vibrant colors and environments and cool character designs, but textures are a little sloppy.
This game churns out decent results as a kids game, but it did little to impress me with something new. So you fight enemies, "jack" titans, make your jacked titan beat the crap out of more enemies, fight bosses, and of course platforming. WHAT THE GAME IS: Crash's arch nemesis Neo Cortex, and his niece Nina Cortex plan for world domination (Gee, what a surprise) and are turning the local woodland creatures into towering, hideous-looking titans. Luckily, there is the greatly appreciated co-op feature which makes this game a lot more fun if you play it with a friend.
THE GOOD: Co-op, decent graphics, moderately interesting challenges, lovable crew of characters, and monster jacking. THE BAD: Outside of co-op and monster jacking the gameplay is lackluster, story is boring, music is crappy, and it feels rather shallow. So it is up to Crash to save the world, and do some serious a**-kicking to a number of villains. Controls work fine, but the camera can be particularly frustrating during the platforming sequences, especially when you play this game on co-op, and can cause you to be put in a blind spot and you can die unfairly.
SOUND: Decent voice-acting, random one-liners from enemies, beating the crap out of enemies, and Crash's annoying animal grunts (Shut the hell up already). This game is still worth a look however.
I hope in the next game they go back to the warp rooms. Over all I thought this game was good, just not great. In previous crash games I have enjoyed the whole warp room thing. Some of the bad parts were it did seem a bit repetitive and really didn't even feel like their were bosses. I thought that it was cool that they added a co-op option. It really didn't feel like a crash bandicoot game to me though. I have gotten every crash bandicoot game so far. So when this game came out I had to get it.
The sound effects are great as is the voicing for characters and certain enemies is great. And boy have they. I was a fan of Crash from the start his first three Naughty Dog titles were great then things began to get bad after Crash was bought out it seemed as though Vivendi Universal thought that they could live on the popularity of Crash and Spyro and that alone. Crash games. Then they tried gimmicks "lets liven up these old characters, it can't be our games the characters must be wrong." They came up with Twinsanity a relatively good game but it just didn't have.
And events faze in seamlessly. Now you may be thinking if the game is like that how must the load times be, nearly non-existent, it's wonderful no sooner do you choose your level and it's loaded an ready to play.
As you approach enemies you can here them having a conversation. Well it's hard to describe but let just say it just wasn't right.
Overall this is a work of art and an excellent game you'd have to be crazy not to like it. It takes a Crash Bandicoot gaming experience to a level which it hasn't reached in years.
The music also has that signature sound you expect from. Finally though Sierra got to make it's mark on the property.
Crash of the Titans has to be the most visually stunning and free-roaming Crash title to date.
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