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Crash Tag Team Racing Graphics: 6 Gameplay: 5.5 Sound: 6
Control: 7 Replay Value: 5.5 Rating: 5.9 Publisher: VU Games
Developer: Radical Entertainment Number Of Players: 1-4 The
original Crash Team Racing (PSX) was a "Mario Kart rip-off" in
the positive sense. It featured some great track designs and its
four-player mode was somehow both balanced and exciting. More
importantly, because it ran on the PlayStation, the owners of
Sony's grey console could finally enjoy the genre that up to
that point was Nintendo's domain. Future installments of the
Crash Bandicoot-inspired racing series came along for the
PlayStation 2 and portables, but none were able to muster the
same level of quality. The same is also true of Vivendi's latest
attempt, Crash Tag Team Racing. Although it successfully manages
to copy and expand on the "tag team" concept spawned by
Nintendo's Mario Kart: Double Dash, that one victory is mostly
abolished by the game's weak course design