Crash Nitro Kart

Bought this game because I really enjoy playing Crash Team Racing on PS1. So, i thought that maybe the GBA version would be just as fun, and obviously, it is! I have been doing a good job in easy Grand Prix cups, and enjoy using Time Trials as a practice course for the real thing. The CPUs get more diffucult as you progress, which I think is what makes the game fun. Highly recommend this game to anyone who loves Mariokart and Toy Story Racer. Buy it! It's so fun!!

great game great price...this game is excellent the game on the bigger console is great too. Thanks for great service and great price.

It was good. It arrived as described. It brought back so many memories.

I bought this in the 2-pack that included Crash Bandicoot N-Tranced (get that game!!). I loved playing Crash Team Racing on the PS1 and I loved playing this version. Most people will compare it to Mario Kart Super Circuit (GBA games are so cheap now, just buy both), but I feel that only recently did Mario Kart start including cool unlockables and things like that. With Mario Kart Super Circuit, you just win races in that annoying cup-style mode, and that's it. With both CTR games, you go through the races, then race a boss, then after you finish the initial part of the game, you go back and have to collect the CTR (or CNK in this game) during the race and still get in 1st place. This is an amazing idea and Diddy Kong Racing did something similar. It puts an excellent twist on the gameplay and is way better than just playing the same track over and over again like you do in Mario Kart. A lot of people face technical difficulties, I only saw it when I was up against bosses, and yes it got irritating because the game would freeze/restart but once I got past the boss, it was fine until the next time. Still totally worth the very low price of the game right now.

Crash has been having a stellar time on the Game Boy Advance with his platforming escapades, but what about when he takes the wheel? Well, I may not have played Crash Team Racing on the Playstation, but Nitro Kart gladly fills in my cravings for a Crash Bandicoot kart-racer that is great enough to actually be able to rival the likes of Mario Kart: Super Circuit! I'm serious!! This game is that good!Crash Nitro Kart has an Arcade mode, which plays out in the usual track-to-track-in-one-of-four-cups structure, but there's also an Adventure mode, where you race on tracks (selected by driving to a portal in a little HUB world) to gather trophies and also race boss characters. The story it tells is admittedly lame (An alien kidnaps the heroes and villains to make them race for the alien's amusement), but everything else checks out exceptionally well!If Donkey Kong Country's rendered graphics and F-Zero's Mode-7 were thrown together in a blender, the result would most likely be what Crash Nitro Kart's graphics are! This game reeks of eye candy, and it drives home that Mario Kart isn't the only racer on Game Boy Advance that could harness the awesome graphical prowess and still play great! In fact, the control is spot-on; the cars hardly ever feel too slippery, the action is frantic and fast-paced, and the cartoon-ish aspects are played out naturally thanks to the extra touches where you get hit by an item and make a jump or when you ram into a wall. The items are also varied and well-implemented.Do you love Crash Bandicoot? Or racing games? If so, getting Crash Nitro Kart should be a no-brainer by now, and I wouldn't be surprised if it spends an amount of time in your Game Boy Advance or DS.UPDATE (5/14/2015): I accidentally found a hidden minigame! Apparently, if you hold L and R while booting up the game, you get a little "dance" game called Crash Party USA instead of Nitro Kart. Laid out similarly to a traditional rhythm game, you press certain buttons when they move up to the cursor, and you can move the cursor up or down the rows. It starts out kinda slow, but it picks up at a good pace, and as a result becomes a fun way to kill time. As if having this great kart racer wasn't enough to satisfy!

Crash's kart hijinks started years ago on the Playstation as Crash Team Racing. As we all know, Naughty Dog handled that game and it was one of the serious contenders that went up against Mario Kart. Vivendi Universal wanted to return to that success by letting Vicarious Visions(Creators of Crash's two GBA adventures) create Crash Nitro Kart for the Gameboy Advance as well as for the present console systems. For the most part, Crash Nitro Kart is an enjoyable racer that shows attention to car handling, challenge, track design, and a ton of racing modes. The coolest things about the game, to me anyways, is the Boost element(In a powerslide, the racer quickly builds up a boost meter that must be activated at a specific time, and a successful powerslide can give skilled players as many as three linked boosts; This is one thing that definitely sets it apart from Mario Kart), the time trial where players can rank their times at the Vicarious Visions website and the fact there are alot of unlockables(like being able to race as Spyro, which is my favorite). The game features 11 racers, arcade & adventure modes, link cable support for up to 4 players, 3 games saves, and connectivity to the Gamecube version. The story to the game tells that Crash and the gang land on a remote planet where they've been kidnapped by the "evil" Emperor Velo, forced to race against the alien posse as well as Neo Cortex and his crew of cronies, while Crash is racing to save the world...Neo has other plans.The version I played has only froze up on me once, so far, and as far as slowdown is concerned--I've seen very little in the game. So, there's very little for me to gripe about. Vicarious Visions utilizes a mode-7 design to the game to give it more of a 3-D feel, the control is dead-on in the game, and the graphics look brilliant. It might not have as much polish to it as Mario Kart Super Circuit does as it looks, at least to me, like the older Super Mario Kart on the SNES. At any rate, though, it's the gameplay that counts to me and this game has got alot.It's an excellent kart racer that builds upon ideas established in both Mario Kart and Crash Team Racing as well as other GBA kart racers. To me, this game rates second to the two aforementioned racers and is definitely one every GBA owner should have in their collection of games on the go.On a sidenote, if you own one of the Crash Nitro Kart games that freezes, or slows down during play....may i suggest that you get the Crash Superpack(which has Crash Nitro Kart & Crash Bandicoot: N-tranced on it). I've seen even less of both those problems on that game cartridge when testing it alongside my copy of CNK. Hopefully, Vivendi Universal has corrected the problem as best it can with the superpack version.

BRILLIANT

I am satisfied