Just a quick mention to something I’ve brought up in other reviews before (particularly the Spyro games) – Crash Team Racing has the famous PS1 skyboxes that mix pastel shades of blue and purple in with the skyline to create a gorgeous effect. The detail is certainly there if you ever get chance to stop and admire it. You can expect to see all the staples of the Crash Bandicoot franchise – wumpa fruit crates and man-eating plants are here, but little touches like portraits scattered around each character’s level (including a stained glass window in Cortex Castle) make these believable, fun places and even though you’ll be flying through. The tracks are equally thoughtful – as previously mentioned there’s a wide variety here from sunny beaches to underground mines and they’re all bursting with personality. The way Pura sits upright in his kart and leans sideways when taking corners is adorable, quite the opposite of Papu Papu who is jammed in his vehicle and looks unsightly and ugly. You can expect plenty of familiar outback settings, but nearly all of the environments are represented here from Papu’s pyramid to the snowy polar pass, which evokes a nice nostalgia if you’re a fan.īy now masters of the PS1 hardware and cute platformer mascots in general, Crash Team Racing culminates these skills in a genre shift that looks and plays brilliantly – holding up particularly well to this day.Īs usual character modelling is brilliant (for the time) – things like the podium girls who celebrate your win have big cartoon eyes and smooth animations, while the racers themselves are the stand-out element. There’s a brilliant representation of the Crash universe here though, with tracks lifted from locations in the previous games yet smartly changed to fit the new racing theme.
You will be treated to little snippets of conversations as you make your way through the adventure mode, but generally there’s no substantial story here – cementing this as a fanservice through and through. The playable cast is decent too – all the recognisable faces like Coco and Tiny are here alongside side-characters like Polar from Cortex Strikes Back and Pura from Warped. Most interesting is that Naughty Dog dug up long-forgotten characters for the boss battles – Komodo Joe and Pinstripe Potoroo show up from the first game, alongside my personal favourite, the unhinged Ripper Roo who continues to cackle nonsensically at every opportunity. It’s the kind of silly plot that spin-offs are known for and doesn’t really do anything to add to Crash’s world, but it’s harmless and a bit of fun. From there, various characters from past Crash Bandicoot games compete with each other to discover who is fast enough to take him on and ultimately save the planet. In Speed Mode, you will be collecting boosts and show off your drifting skills in high-paced competitive racing.Taking place (presumably) after the events of Warped, Crash Team Racing sees the inhabitants of Earth challenged to a race by the alien Nitros Oxide – if they win he’ll leave, if not he’ll turn the planet into a giant concrete parking lot. In Item Mode, you collect items during the race itself and use the items to help you defeat your opponents. In the closed beta, the two games you can choose to play are: Similar to games such as Mario Kart and Crash Team Racing, this game should provide fans with an almost nostalgic experience with a game they have never seen with their eyes before. There will be over 30 tracks available when the game launches. Kart Rider: Drift will constantly be adding new skins to the game in order to make sure you have the coolest car on the track. Kart Rider: Drift is an arcade-style racing game that allows you to compete against your friends to prove who can come up on top on a thrilling high-action car race. In the tweet above, PlayStation announced that a closed beta version of Kart Rider: Drift would come out on Dec.
KartRider: Drift gets a closed beta December 8, including the frenzied Item Mode and fast-paced Speed Mode: /T9qgGZmVuT- PlayStation OctoIs Kart Rider: Drift PS4 on PS Plus?
The full version of the game is scheduled to be released in 2022 while a closed beta version of the game is set to start on Dec.
Kart Rider: Drift is a free to play racing game that will be released on PS Plus for members.