Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (Xbox)

...review is about the game Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex, this is a not bad game. I got this game for my 14th birthday, along with other games and the XBOX console. This game is about Crash Bandicoot trying to defeat Cortex once and for all. In the other Crash Bandicoot games, he never defeats Cortex, he always knocks him out, or lets him escape, all same story. The game stars the characters of Crash Bandicoot, Coco (Crash Bandicoot's Extremely ...
...Crash Bandicoot in his travels). These are all great good guys, i'm not a super fan of Crash Bandicoot, but it still entertains me when I’m bored, or fancy playing an RPG on my XBOX, then Crash.... here I come.

Crash Bandicoot and his Sister Coco, have come to a far place to stop Neo Cortex (the main bad guy in this game), they use the same warpers as from the 3rd Crash Bandicoot, you use the teleporters to get to different worlds, ... more

This review is about the game Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex, this is a not bad game. I got this game for my 14th birthday, along with other games and the XBOX console. This game is about Crash Bandicoot trying to defeat Cortex once and for all. In the other Crash Bandicoot games, he never defeats Cortex, he always knocks him out, or lets him escape, all same story. The game stars the characters of Crash Bandicoot, Coco (Crash Bandicoot's Extremely Smart Sister), Aku Aku (An ancient witchdoctor that helps out Crash Bandicoot in his travels). These are all great good guys, i'm not a super fan of Crash Bandicoot, but it still entertains me when I’m bored, or fancy playing an RPG on my XBOX, then Crash.... here I come.

Crash Bandicoot and his Sister Coco, have come to a far place to stop Neo Cortex (the main bad guy in this game), they use the same warpers as from the 3rd Crash Bandicoot, you use the teleporters to get to different worlds, so you can find a key and a crystal. Once you have got them from all the levels in this world, then you can go to the middle portal, and fight the boss, there is a boss for each area, and a certain amount of levels on each world, and it gets harder each time you get to the next level, and next world. Crash Bandicoot is a Kyoto, I think; he is like a fox that can stand like a human. Coco is the same, but a female, with long yellow hair in a poney tail. Uka Uka is a mask, that when you find it in a crate, then he will give you like a second life, instead of when you get hit once, you will die, and you will die in two hits. If you find 3 of the masks, you will go into super mode, and you can kill anything in your way.

There is secret level, in each portal, if you get all the crates, you will win a life at the end. You get the key on the portal levels when you smash all the crates in the area, to get the crystal, well you will find it when your near the end of the level, you will find it, its a tall green crystal, you cant miss it.

You can do quite a few moves; if you push (B) then you will do your spin move, when you can knock away enemies, of open crates. (A) is jump; you can jump on crates to open them, or jump on the ones that bounce, so you get more apples. Apples are like rings (from Sonic), when you get 100 apples, you will get a life, but when you get hit and you don’t have a Aku Aku mask, then you will die straight off not like Sonic now.

You can find apples in the crates, and some times when you defeat an enemy. You don’t just find them growing off trees in this game; you need to move... you know what I mean. In some levels you will be able to play in a vehicle, like on the second portal on the first world, you are on a plane, and you have to shoot this turbine things that are creating tornado's, there are 6 altogether, and there are other planes shooting at you too, but you don’t have a set time, so that’s good.

Neo Cortex is a short person with a massive head; on his forehead he has a giant N, for Neo. He wears a white scientist suit, and he has black hair sticking out of his ears, and a small bit sticking up in the middle of his forehead, he also has a beard around his mofo mouth, very big mouth. There are some levels when you are Coco, as Crash Bandicoot might be captured, or not bothering to do it lol! Coco is a good character; you get to play her in the Crash Racing games, as she is one of the drivers. I like Coco, she has good moves, roughly the same as Crash Bandicoot, but she’s a female, like a straight transfer, accept the looks.

The game is not short, not short at all; it is a long winded game, like the Zelda games, accepts Wind Waker that one is well too short. You need not a lot of strategy for this game, you just need the brains, and the know how. I am not a big fan, but I still love these games, I use to own the first Crash Bandicoot once, it was superb. The thing I like about this one is that you can play as Coco, and you get to use vehicles, and other things. Each level has its own uniqueness to it, like some are spooky and creepy, and some are when you are out in the snow and Ice. I hate the ones when you have something chasing you; it gets hard then, and puts a cold sweat on you sometimes.

Crash Bandicoot has a brother, called Crunch, he was created by Neo Cortex, he is 10 times stronger than Crash Bandicoot, and 10 times dumber lol! Crunch becomes friends with Crash, and he is in this game. He has become the brother of Crash Bandicoot, and they help each other out as much as they can. You cant play with him, well not as far as I know of, if there’s a cheat or a secret level, or whatever really.

In some of the levels you have to dodge lasers and other obstacles, these are within the portal levels, as you go along. Many worlds to visit, well 5 altogether, and there’s 8 or so portals in each world, that need completing so you can fight the boss of the world, and so you can claim that you own it, and you will take control of it muwahahahaha, sorry, got a bit carried away there. Some portal levels, you will get to be Crash in a robot suit, which seams really cool, it’s hardish to control though.

Special Features
All new graphics engine
Complete specific levels of the game as Crash's fiery sister Coco
New free-roam sections will be implemented within certain levels of the game
The most vehicles ever seen in a Crash game
New characters
Unlock arena levels and get ready to rumble, as either Crash or Coco
There are loads of features, complete with an all new hardcore Crash Bandicoot game; I’m talking about this one if you did not know that.

The Graphics for this game are superb, I own this on the XBOX, but I think it is a straight transfer from the Playstation 2, which has dumbed down the graphics for the XBOX ones. The game is as smooth as you can imagine, well not that smooth, hey stop thinking, its not that smooth, its XBOX smooth. The graphics for all the characters, just great, the levels, the enemies, can’t get much better, unless it Final Fantasy, nothing is better than that.

The sound of the game is great, their voices are good, it’s not in Japanese or anything, even though I think you might be able to change it to that if you really want to, but I assume it will be just Japanese subtitles. There are many different languages that you can change it to, you will be able to do this function at the beginning of the game, if not, go to options, and it will have it in there.

The music is Crash Bandicoot style, not bad by the way, but it could have been better, in what way you say, ill tell you. It could have had music that was real, but then it would have been copy right, so I say its ok how it is...

I like this game because, I like all XBOX games, and I also think that Crash Bandicoot and his gang are great characters.

Technical Details
Region: PAL: Will play on UK Playstation2 only
Cert: 3+ (ELSPA)
Players: 1
Rating: 4 star * * * *
Price: £14.99 from www.play.com Enjoy!

I hope that you have found this informative enough; I recommend this to any fans of RPG games, does not matter what console.

DBZKing

 

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