Review: Crash Bandicoot 4: The Wrath of Cortex

 By: Karate Joe

Note: Games are rated on a scale of 1.0 to 10.0

Graphics: 9.0
It's impossible to express my joy that the new
developers didn't squander the ability of the PS2 when making Crash 4, Traveler's Tales scored big time with making The Wrath of Cortex!

Control 10.0
Hands down the best control setup I've ever
used. This is the game that didn't have me
yelling at the controller when I die (I know, I've
got problems.)

Fun Factor: 8.0
Besides the under-water levels, the only thing that hamper's the enjoyment of the game is the super long load times, but, if
your resourceful you should be able to figure
out something to do for a minute or two.
Even with these problems, the overall
coolness of Crash games is enough to tilt the
the Fun Factor up to a 8.0

Overall: 9.0

 

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 Add one part jaw-dropping graphics, one part super-smooth control, and one part new baddies, and you got yourself
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex.
That's right, Crash is back for his first adventure on the PS2, but, this time, without Naughty Dog. Travelers Tales will instead be producing this Crash game, and, if I may say so myself, they did a pretty darn good job.
As mentioned at the beginning, they've made some quite large improvements, but, unfortunately, they've also made a few mistakes. First of which is making you fight the same boss each time, only slightly changed by him having different powers, and Tropy, N'Gin and Tiny have been demoted from bosses to mere baddies dispersed around a few levels.
Second, Travelers Tales made the same mistake as Naughty Dog did in all the other games, which was the addition of under-water levels, they're time consuming and make the game much slower than it should be.
However, they've made up for it slightly by some of the other great levels-which are pretty much all the levels that aren't under water-and they've also included full playability for Coco, and that's pretty cool 'cause Coco's got some mad Kung Fu skilz.
As for the story, it's the same old cortex and Uka Uka are back, ya know, they try to take over the world with they're evil schemes, blah blah blah......... Ok, it's not that boring, what actually happens is-yes cortex and Uka Uka are back, hence the name-the head baddies get together and have a baddie convention which turns out to to be pretty corny, with Uka Uka showing them line graphs of crime and such, well, anyway, after a little while they decide to use cortex's latest creation, a Bandicoot named Crunch, powered by some old ancient elemental masks known as the Elementals (duh.)
So, overall Crash made a pretty good trial run on the PS2, he even could've made a great trial run, if it wasn't for those darn under-water levels.


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