Not all of these embellishments amount to a great deal. And there’s more: you can spend coins you earn from each race on skins and carts taken from 2005’s Crash Tag Team Racing. The original Adventure mode comes with a clutch of new cutscenes, and now allows you to switch characters and vehicles at will, rather than sticking with your first choice – though the old-school approach is still available if you’re keen to recapture 20-year-old memories. To break it down to raw facts and figures: this is essentially Crash Team Racing in its entirety, plus 13 tracks from Vicarious Visions’ 2003 follow-up Crash Nitro Kart, with online multiplayer and fully customisable karts to boot.
Like Crash himself, it’s a bundle of boisterous energy – noisy and slightly hyperactive, but oddly endearing all the same.įor Beenox – a support team thrust, perhaps unexpectedly, into the spotlight – Nitro Fueled represents a chance to show what it can do, and the studio grasps it with both hands. Even down to the post-race victory lap, wind visibly whipping through digital fur, Nitro Fueled captures a tangible sensation of barely-controlled speed.
Like sticking a V12 engine into a Fiesta, it feels like too much power in too small a frame, as your kart’s front wheels lift off the ground, its occupier clinging tighter to the wheel in tandem with your own grip on the controller. You can almost feel the frames of these karts buckling, the nuts and bolts about to rattle loose, every time you trigger a turbo boost. This surprisingly lavish remake of Naughty Dog’s 1999 kart racer certainly lives up to its titular suffix.
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