Crash Team Racing Review | The Greatest Kart Racer Ever 

Well, that was a "fun" marathon, I hope everyone enjoyed it. Tomorrow I'll be having a conclusion discussion talking about every review, my thoughts and a brief look to 2018

tgx me and 2 of my friends who came over last night watched the review together cause we grew up playing ctr and it is the best racing game ever and we enjoy your videos so much

I haven't seen a lot of your videos. In fact, this is my second. My first was the Crash Nitro Kart video. Gotta say, they're pretty damn good and entertaining videos. Even the jokes are fairly well timed, and don't seem too forced. Nice job, even though this is a year old video. I said this on my Nitro Kart video, but god I can't wait for the CTR Nitro Fueled to come out in about a week. I have it pre-ordered and pre-downloaded, all ready to go. I actually never played a Crash racer before, any of 'em (outside of about 10 minutes of the GBA one). I've always wanted to try 'em seeing as I was and am a huge Crash Bandicoot fan, having played the hell out of 'em when they first came out. I just happened to miss CTR. But now, a near perfect recreation of the original game, with updated graphics, all the characters and tracks from Nitro Kart, new original tracks, a completely free battle pass type system, cosmetic skins for characters and karts, along with decals and stickers you to place on your kart, Spyro the m'fing Dragon along with Spyro themed tracks are planned at a later date, Tawna's back!, the trophy girls are in, and there's two different versions of Adventure Mode (original, and an updated one with the new stuff tossed in). All for $40. It's fucking ridiculous, yet has me hyped as hell. I NEED it. It's killing me, having to wait. I so wish I had access to an emulator, I'd be all over the original CTR while I wait.

This game is great and so is the remake

Objectively the mechanically best kart racing game ever. And happened to release on my birthday.

I always loved Crash Team Racing. But there are some things I don't understand: the game is called "Crash Team Racing". I played the game before, and there are no racing teams in the game. In Crash Nitro Kart, there are racing teams. Crash Team Racing should have been called Crash Nitro Kart and Crash Nitro Kart should have been called Crash Team Racing. Makes no sense at all. Thumbs up if you agree.

26:05, TGX is a living legend. I love the mix of creative comedy in combination with an in depth mechanical analysis of the game. These reviews are always kept fresh, clever and interesting while being informative, unbiased and thorough. Great job, and keep up the awesome content!!

Definitely my favourite racing game. Had so much fun playing with my older brothers growing up! Even when we had ps2, we still go back to our old psx to play this!

I beat Oxide on every track. Made me SO mad i didnt unlock him for all that hard work. Penta was sort of a nice consulation prize since apparently they share the same stats.

*One hour?!* oh baby yes

The "Pass It On" part in 26:05 is still one of my favorite moments in the TGX Cinematic Universe, lol.

You do unlock the scrap book for beating oxide times, instead of having to 100% complete adventure mode. There was a time where I could only beat Oxide times with Penta Penguin. I have the PAL version of the game where Penta is busted having top stats in everything. Later I managed to do it with Dingodile (since he's my favorite Crash character and main) fairly easily. I can play Dingodile on Oxide station but when you get to the cornering section early on you're going to have to drift very specific lines unless you wanna curb yourself. Heavies like Dingodile can drift pretty much straight forward too.

46:41 correction: beating Oxide's times unlocks the scrapbook. Not a character but it's something.

Apparently, some people think Naughty Dog owns the Crash IP because he made a cameo in "Uncharted 4," since it's not like 'Used with permission from...' is a thing that exists in copyright law. :P [penguin yay 1]

Finally got around to watching this. This is definitely your best video! Great work, dude! I especially loved the Roo's Tubes joke XD

Oh well, Penta Penguin is a 100% completed character in the PAL version

They likely had to cut N. Brio, Koala Kong and Tawna due to system limitations. For all the amazing stuff they could make the Playstation do, they were severely limited by it.

I was looking through Fanmade CTR OSTs by @lohweo and suddenly this review got recommended. lmao

Where is that bob dole bit from? I'm legitimately curious on where that's from.

I miss you

Splendid review buddy. Very thought-out and in-depth. I never realized CTR could be looked at like this. Crash Team Racing is a vintage classic. I actually got the game on my PS3 just this year, like a lot of other games. I’ve quite enjoyed replaying it. I even played through story mode, but I haven’t gotten to a hundred percent yet. I absolutely agree with almost everything you said in this review. The key word is almost. But regarding the game itself, absolutely, and I see where you are getting at. Speaking of Naughty Dog, after I wrap up InFAMOUS 2, I gotta replay the Uncharted games, and save the best for last, for when I finally play Last of Us. You see what I did there? Oh btw, are you suggesting or implying you don’t like Uncharted? Why not?! Uncharted is awesome! Great gameplay, engaging characters, great atmosphere and theme, the sense of adventure and exploration well match the theme of treasure hunting, fascinating puzzles and secrets, etc. Anyway, regardless, I’ll definitely check out more of your content. ValeforXD was right.

That realization that your views on this video will double in the next week or more.

The Wormhole leads into the dimension Dead or Alive XD it's nirvana

I love your reviews man!! You have entertained this fellow Canadian. You seem like a really cool dude! 😎 I'd love to chat about video games w u!

When a Video Starts with the voice of Bruce Dickinson ITS a good one

More games need to have Equal Rights Jiggle Physics.

Favourite game of all time

TGX congrats on nearly 3000 views mate ^^. You fucking rock hands down one of my favorite content creators up there with square eyed jak and jontron.

i loved this game ssssssoooooooo much

I couldn't agree more with the title.

You deserve way more subs dude. You made me appreciate this game even more than I already do. Although I think I do like this game more than you. I even beat all of oxides ghosts... twice.

Equal right jiggle physics, that's amazing time to sub

I loved this review. It actually helped me realize this is my favorite game of all time. It was a grand finale to an amazing series. What I love most about the game is that ND made the most of the previous games and the tie ins that made the series what it is. The weapons, music, levels, it's all beautiful. They combined it all into a super fun racing game full of life. I knew it had a special place in my heart since I own 4 copies of it. 😆

Man, seeing you mention Jak makes me want to see you cover the series.

I thought I knew everything about CTR, but when you pointed out the thing about Papu Papu's icon, my mind was blown

The best part of this game... IS F**CKING PINSTRIPE!

awwwwwww Gambit and Watson so cuuuute

My favourite game of my favourite franchise. (Not my favourite game of all time, mind you -- it's beaten by Skyrim and The Third Age -- but Crash is my favourite video game series, and CTR is my favourite Crash game.) This is the game that turned me into a gamer -- it's just about perfect. I haven't been able to play CTR in years -- my copy is broken. But I'll always look fondly on the hundreds upon hundreds of hours I spent playing it. I will never forget it. It's a classic.

I guess you must like that the remaster is happening, eh? +-+

I love CTR sm, it's so fun to beat tracks as fast as humanly possible I beat all the oxide ghosts :p

Excellent video for an excellent game. Well done!

3 seconds in to your channel and I hear Green Grass and High Tides. You sir, have my sub :D

Can't wait to hear his thoughts about CTR Nitro Fueled

Here after Nirto Fueled Announcement

I'm never going to unhear that Pass it on joke am I? xD

I'm going to go back and play it now, I love that game

I always misunderstood "crash bash" as "Crash 5" as when I was a toddler because in turkish "beş" the word that means "five or 5" pronouncing same as pronouncing of "bash". And I would think CTR like crash 4(*) because it has same develeoper with original crash trilogy but irrevelant as story wise and just for fun. For feeling more empathy here, I had a playstation 1 slim at these old days(I was between 7-10 years old and I wasnt awareof any game except for trilogy ctr and bash. Now My ps doesnt work like old days and now I have to emulato on samsung tablets but its very easy task for them. Its insulting how even low tier crappy hardwares still emulate crash with maximum quality(I mean at 60fps also there is no resolution options and Its how easy to access the original trilogy. My pc insanely lagging and freezing at nsane trilogy aka the fresh remake that realesed 3 years ago at this day). Also I never finished crash 1 because I was so willing to believe that my controller is broke and not realiezing that I suck at directional pad. After 10 year hiatus I emulated all of that and got %100 all of them. I only used save state in crash 1 because I was little inspired from nsane trilogy's crash 2 type of approach and make bonuses had to be completed for gems and make them replayable For (*): (Also I wasnt aware of other crash games except crash bash but at least I was aware that it has different develeoper because of the intro and its irrevelant to story too like alternative universes or reboots)

Lol you are so adorkable.

Happy Christmas

In canonity This has to happen between first and second game because at second games "%100 ending" aka. "true ending" neo cortex and ngin probably died because of destruction of space station and it is possible that uka uka convinced n tropy to go back time for saving them before nbrio's assult and also this makes no paradox because space station still get destroyed anyway. And in third game they get stuck in time prison and that explains how they came back few days in its about time. Also we can count ntropy as secret character like penta the penguin because he has no connection with adventure mode, you just select time trial mode in the main menu and it requires 0 save slot but actually your best times fills a entire slot anyway. You encounter and unlock other bosses in adventure mod via collecting coloured gems. It can be in second game because its like one day in game and not a long journal like crash 1. Characters show sleep deprive effects in warped to show how long it takes to execute that scheme. Ntropy's voice sounds so meta to me because I hear him like his at my behind everytime I conpleted a time trial because we just hear him without any imagery content. I realized that actually I can write essay about any crash bandicoot related topic because this comment already been too long

this may be an unpopular opinion and i never played diddy kong racing but from seeing gameplay every character looks like these cheap chinese plushy toys to me :D just my opinion tho

That acted out intro was glorious!

Watching Papu Papu's jiggly flesh is far scarier than the threat of Oxide's victory over the Earth.

Awesome review

My problem with newer Kart racers... which seems to even be a big thing with Mario Kart now, is that all the tracks themselves look and feel like they were just made out of a twisted ribbon. Maybe with a jump gap here or there, but that's about it... Woohoo challenging.... Mario Kart, your drifting/powersliding is boring and it sucks! (Funny thing is, I could say similar things about what Criterion, the Burnout devs, did to Need for Speed, even though I loved Burnout.)

Sk8 mafia poster. He’s valid

Such a great game Defs recommend the remake

I like how he says Cortex's level... N. Gin's track.. blah blah blah but says Pinstripe's TURF. Funny cause he a gangsta! Also can I meet your family? Pinstripe is GOD in my house!!!

How to spin out drifting? Just keep your drift going too long

I agree BTW love your channel

the argument on boss difficulty highlights CTR's biggest shortcoming: it was too easy. This game utterly shits on mario kart 64 and diddy kong, but once you have become acquainted with the controls, (not even mastered them) you will never lose. The blue orb is like mario kart's blue shell, but you are the only one to have it, AI racers don't have that item, nor the stopwatch nor the mask. At least in mario kart the rubberbanding AI provides with some challenge, in CTR you end up constantly winning even if you play with the super hard mode cheat code. This is the only thing that bothers me, the rest is perfection!

bandiboy? xD

and jak 3 is my favorite in the series

I love CTR...but man you stroked it too hard

is it quadrilogy or quadrology

Pokémon can still do annual releases with no problems and with more new stuff than EA Sports annual "changes" Also I remember hearing about the Unity glitches but I didn't have wi-fi and couldn't play it until 2016 long after everything was fixed. I play and judge my favourites of the Assassin's Creed series based off of the historical period they take place in and Unity is my favourite because I LOVE the French Revolution. I'm also a HUGE Napoleon buff and I love how he is in the game

Naughty Dog wanted CTR to kill crash bandicoot since they'd lose the IP afterwards. I think they would've ended the series on the perfect note if it actually did kill the franchise.

Mariokart 64 was best kart racer.

Crash niro kart = Crash team racing .Fight me !!!

This game's only flaw is its unfair 2 player vs. mode. During a race, the 1st place racer will NEVER get a mask. Two equally skilled racers can't race on equal pick-up odds. One can almost always win by hanging back a little in the last lap and blowing by the leader with a mask. Don't believe me? Go test it for yourself.

I still like sonic riders more tbh.

"on another note, my parents are cousins" Lmfao

While CTR (PS1) is outdated and next Gen hardware is getting more higher in sales, how will CTR live on modern hardware? Easy Answer. Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fuelled.

Unpopular opinion I guess? I prefer Mario Kart, even though my very first kart racer was CTR.

AND THERES A WIND ON DOWN THE ROAD......nice bro. Jiimmy Page killed it.