This can lead to some crazy and chaotic racing and, while the merging can be seen as a form of cheating to win races easily, it remains unbiased towards each character: sometimes the unmerging will speed the player up and, sometimes, it’ll speed the other racer up. This particular game adds to the racing experience by giving players an opportunity to merge with another racer’s vehicle, letting one character drive while the other shoots the rest of the racers. While the latter is universally loved and seen as a classic, it is just a basic racing game. However, I’m going to be in the minority by saying Crash: Tag Team Racing is better than its previous racing entry, Crash Team Racing.

This game was met with average reviews, with a lot of the criticism coming from the mixture of racing and platforming, as well as the ‘uninspired’ tracks.

Therefore, Crash must win all of the races in the park to get the crystals back before his arch-nemesis, Dr Neo Cortex, does. What’s worse is that the park’s power crystals have been stolen. In the game, Crash and the gang discover a racing theme park that is in need of help: what was once a popular attraction, is now a location that is falling apart. Tag Team Racing is a racing and platforming hybrid. I am a huge Crash Bandicoot fan and was eager to find any Crash games for the (at the time) new console and I found this one in a triple pack, which also included Crash: Nitro Kart Racing and Crash: Twinsanity. However, the game I’ve chosen to review for JumpCut’s PS2 flashback is Crash: Tag Team Racing from 2005. While I owned one 2 years later, I still loved it: this console introduced me to the original Kingdom Hearts, a Nightmare Before Christmas game and Ratchet and Clank.

The 5 th March marked 19 years since the original release of the PlayStation 2 in Japan.

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