Crash Team Racing with th essence of the usual, but with new animations and sound effects - Ultimate Guide

When a developer decides to remaster a videogame, it is a delicate task, especially the process that involves maintaining the essence of it when making the changes, all this so that the players of this improved classic do not perceive it as a game totally different with a title already known, but keeping the essence of it, but adapting to the most recent standards of these times.

The approach that the new Crash Team Racing has had for Nintendo Switch has undoubtedly been very successful on the part of Beenox who took charge of this new design where they also used animations and sound effects that have undoubtedly been the correct ones, but at the same time keeping the small details and hidden secrets, something that could not disappear and that had to be maintained from that first release in 1999, something that fans have loved.

Although not all the changes have been so discreet as not to lose the essence, we have noticed that the game feels a little faster, the developers say it is the same as the original, although it could be that the Crash Team Racing of that moment, rather was ahead and this new trilogy N. Sane appears to be older than the original, using 4K touch-ups.

And although it can be compared to Mario Kart, Crash differs by pushing, doing something similar to a minigame to get impulses. The slip could seem a bit slow, you should know when to start and when to finish, the electric slides in the laps, to avoid accidents.

With the slides you can use a reinforcement system, but you need a precise time. If you get a triple impulse, you will achieve such speed to go from last to first place.

The help weapons in the CTR, are almost all standard, you can choose between speed increases, missiles, invincibility, shields, until the version of CTR of the explosive blue shell of the Mario Kart, these weapons can be improved if you get fruit wumpa, but this is only to improve your weapons, the harvesting of wumpa fruits will not influence the outcome of the race as such.

The video game update has three modes of split screen or versus, individual and online allowing fans of the game from its first version until the latter face on one of the maps, to a quick battle and see who is positioned first in the ranking.

For fans of Crash, from the launch of the Crash Bandicoot in 1996, to going through the CTR of 1999, to this new CTR design, it means going back to the past with a very modern touch but still classic.