CTR - Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled

During the 90s, Mario Kart was the game of choice when it came to cartoon racing games. While there were many challengers, such as Sonic Drift for the Sega Game Gear and Mickey’s Racing Adventure for the Game Boy Color, everyone mostly played Mario Kart. Sony’s answer to the Nintendo juggernaut was Crash Team Racing, which originally came out in 1999. Twenty years later, we get a remake called Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, which follows in the footsteps of the 2017-2018 releases of the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, the remake of the platformer trilogy. Nitro-Fueled also includes content from the 2003 game Crash Nitro Kart and the 2005 game Crash Tag Team Racing.

- Jose Alvarez

The plot revolves around a new villain named Nitros Oxide, who wants to challenge the world’s greatest racers. If Oxide wins, he will turn the Earth into a parking lot. It’s up to Crash and the characters of the Crash Bandicoot universe to stop him from achieving his goal. The racing game is typical in its execution: the first to get to the finish line wins. You’re also tasked with competing against other drivers. You can pick up power-ups to boost yourself or weapons to charge ahead at the expense of others on the track.