Remake of Crash Team Racing
Nintendo Switch · PlayStation 4 · Xbox One
3.92 from 465 ratings
1020 members have it in their collection · 64 playing now · 207 backlogged · 244 wish listed
How long? Main story 12h · with extras 45h · 100% 15h (from 8 logged playthroughs)
Status Daninokuni Sep 25, 2025
Nowadays, this game's rooster is a true tribute to the entire Crash Bandicoot history. There is not even a single character I miss, and I wanted A LOT of characters.
More than 40 races is a lot, too. They did an absurdly complete game.
Status Daninokuni Jan 27, 2023
Pretty hyped with playing remaked circuits, specially Nitro Kart ones. Nitro Kart wasn't as good as CTR, but it had great circuits, so it will be great to play them with CTR controls.
I hate internet recquired in order to enter the shop, though.
Status PoisonSoldier Apr 22, 2021
Played a bit of split-screen for that childhood nostalgia. Will play Adventure later on for a full nostalgia experience!
Status Jusfei Jan 2, 2021
Finished Adventure mode on Medium
Final Thoughts: Just to clarify in advance, this is my first Crash game I played and I didn't have an attachment to any of the characters in the past. Overall, I can say it's a solid kart racer with fun and lively art & animation style, although …
Finished Adventure mode on Medium
Final Thoughts: Just to clarify in advance, this is my first Crash game I played and I didn't have an attachment to any of the characters in the past. Overall, I can say it's a solid kart racer with fun and lively art & animation style, although the music is rather forgettable compared to the music in Mario Kart 8 & Team Sonic Racing (though I'd argue both listed games have near all-time top soundtracks of their respective franchises too). Gameplay-wise, it's much less accessible compared to Mario Kart due to more complex drifting mechanics and course designs. There are two things that sour my opinion on this game though...
1) Inconsistent difficult: Easy is like WAY too easy, you just have to drive and steer and you'll be 20 seconds ahead. On the other hand Medium can be rather hard, and Hard is like impossible. Pinstripe boss race on Medium is one of the most hair-pulling frustrating game experience that just feels cheap (took me 1.5hrs just to beat him).
2) Unlocking characters: Even though it's all cosmetics, unlocking extra characters / kart parts / etc is mostly done with the Pit Stop, which is a literal microtransaction store. You can't even buy what you want directly as you can only buy from a small rotating selection daily, and the rate you gain in-game currency is grindy to the point you may have to outright use real money if there's something you REALLY want but can't afford. I can't support this business practice, which will lower my rating of this game.
I also tried online but gave up after a couple races as I felt like I've only been matched hard core players, and the load-screen times really kill the pace.
Between this game (CTR:NF), Mario Kart 8 DX (MK8DX), and Team Sonic Racing (TSR), here are my personal rankings for the following categories.
- Single Player modes: CTR:NF > TSR >>> MK8DX.
- For casual parties: MK8DX >>>>>>>> TSR >>> CTR:NF
- For more hardcore multiplayer: CTR:NF > MK8DX > TSR
- Music: TSR >>>>>>>>>>> MK8DX >>> CTR:NF
- Visuals: 3-way tie
- Overall: TSR = MK8DX > CTR:NF
Status internpepper Dec 26, 2020
This is a great remake of a game I loved to play growing up. I was able to 100% Adventure mode and all the new Nitro Kart courses are a welcome addition to the already diverse track selection. After all these years though, I'm still bad at the Time Trials. I always used Cortex and Coco in the original game, …
Read moreThis is a great remake of a game I loved to play growing up. I was able to 100% Adventure mode and all the new Nitro Kart courses are a welcome addition to the already diverse track selection. After all these years though, I'm still bad at the Time Trials. I always used Cortex and Coco in the original game, but in this update, I took a liking to Dingodile. I enjoyed my time with this one and I look forward to casually playing some more to get some more PS4 trophies.
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Status Reset_Tears Aug 9, 2019
So I got a free 1-day game rental to go along with my movie rental from a Redbox, so I figured why not give Crash Bandicoot Kart a spin. From my brief time with it, I'd say it's all right, but not quite my thing. The whole drift-boost-perfect-timing-gauge dealie is annoying to deal with the whole time you're just trying …
Read moreSo I got a free 1-day game rental to go along with my movie rental from a Redbox, so I figured why not give Crash Bandicoot Kart a spin. From my brief time with it, I'd say it's all right, but not quite my thing. The whole drift-boost-perfect-timing-gauge dealie is annoying to deal with the whole time you're just trying to race. I was also pretty surprised just how long those loading screens were, lol. Also, the roulette that spins when picking up an item lasts like a hundred hours long... (I eventually realized you can make the roulette stop to get an item right away, but damn, another thing to deal with while I'm just trying to race.) That said, the game does look really nice, and there are a ton of tracks.
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Status Octjillery Jul 1, 2019
I finished all of the normal and boss races in Adventure mode last night. The CTR and Relic races, though...can eat my butt.
Status Octjillery Jun 24, 2019
Picked this up today. I don't recall ever playing the original, and don't have much experience with Crash games in general.
Everyone saying it plays a lot like Mario Kart...lyiiiiing, haha. It's like a running gag with my group of friends that I pay them all back for stuff by obliterating them at MK.This game is wrecking me so far, …
Picked this up today. I don't recall ever playing the original, and don't have much experience with Crash games in general.
Everyone saying it plays a lot like Mario Kart...lyiiiiing, haha. It's like a running gag with my group of friends that I pay them all back for stuff by obliterating them at MK.This game is wrecking me so far, mostly because the controls are kind of wonky. The alternate controls are better, but still...weird placement.
I'm having fun regardless.
Status BMO Jun 21, 2019
Lots of fun so far but man is this ever a by-the-numbers clone of Mario Kart. I never played the original CTR but everything from the track design, themes to weapons and character types are aped right from Mario Kart, especially Mario Kart 64. The one thing CTR contributes to differentiate itself is a change to the boost system. So …
Lots of fun so far but man is this ever a by-the-numbers clone of Mario Kart. I never played the original CTR but everything from the track design, themes to weapons and character types are aped right from Mario Kart, especially Mario Kart 64. The one thing CTR contributes to differentiate itself is a change to the boost system. So far I kind of hate the boost system. It feels less useful and also less precise when it comes to timing.
All that said it’s still a super fun karting game.
