Every Crash Bandicoot Game Ranked From Worst to Best (Top 20 Crash Games) 

Wrath of Cortex getting some genuine praise makes me happy 😃 such an over hated game! It has its flaws but it’s still a really fun time despite what the internet hivemind tries to tell you lol

I'm glad to see that crash bandicoot wrath of Cortex is rated so high. It really holds a special place in my heart

Ouch, it really hurts to see Tag Team Racing to be placed so low. It was one of my favorite racing games because the car fusions mechanic let it stand out when compared to any other Racing game

The original crash bandicoot was and is still to this day my favourite. Unlike the others it's a straight up platformer and it does it exceptionally well. The more that the game started adding minigames, abilities, time trials and weird gimmicky levels the more frustrating the series became for me. And sadly it just gets more bloated as the series progressed. The original was reasonably challenging and the levels were not at all repetitive because they only allowed 2 levels per theme as opposed to crash 2 and 3 where some level themes were repeated up to 4 times or more. I always felt Crash 1 looked the best out of the 3 naughty dog games because of it's better art direction. I love that in some levels like on Native Fortress you can see the other islands in the background. Or how you go Up the Creek to then reach the top of the waterfall to fight Ripper Roo or climbing the tower on Slippery Climb to reach Cortex's Lab. It's all these small art details which create a narrative as opposed to the warp rooms which meant the developers could be lazy and didn't need to create a world with many of the levels feeling thematically disjointed.

Crash Bandicoot 3 Warped is my favorite as well, such a masterpiece.

“when sonics a-“ _i understood that reference_

I got 106% in crash 4 and that was for sure the most grueling task I have ever finished in a video game in my entire life

I enjoyed playing tag team racing when i was a kid, i had that game and nitro kart on my xbox

Crash Bash is the earliest game I can remember ever playing. I was only a few years old and played it with my mom, dad and older brother with the 4 controller adapter on the PS1. Good memories, still love the game today.

Finally! Someone who doesn't just blindly hate on the Wrath of Cortex!

Crash Boom Bang was genuinely one of my childhood DS games. Seeing it at 20 hurt my soul lmao

200% in crash bash is one of the most satisfying and unreal gaming moments I ever experienced.

My list: (Naughty Dog only) 4.) Crash Bandicoot 3.) Crash Warped 2.) CTR 1.) Crash 2 The reason I prefer Crash 2 to Warped is because it doesn't go overboard on gimmicks. Crash 2 has only 4 vehicle levels out of 27. Crash 3 is 50% vehicle levels with mostly bad controls. Still, I love all the games.

Crash Twinsanity is a Masterpiece to me despite the game being heavily rushed and having lots of bugs and glitches 😊 The Game is Very Fun and The Music is Beautiful and Amazing 🎵 Crash Twinsanity is a Very Special Treasure that I will always cherish forever in my Heart ❤️ My Life will be complete if we get a Crash Twinsanity Remake with all the cut levels added in so it would be fully finished like it was suppose to be if it wasn’t heavily rushed. If it happens, Crash Twinsanity will be an even bigger Masterpiece than ever before and I can die happy 😊❤️💎

Hey Jamie, I just started watching your content today, and I have to say that I'm really impressed! It's all so amazing and high quality! Keep up the amazing work!

wrath of cortex over the original crash is BLASPHEMY

#20. Crash Boom Bang! #19. Riptos Rampage #18. Tag Team Racing #17. Crash of the Titans GBA #16. Mind Over Mutants DS #15. Crash Bash #14. N-Tranced #13. Crash of the Titans DS #12. Crash of the Titans #11. Mind Over Mutant #10. Nitro Kart GBA #09. Nitro Kart #08. Crash Bandicoot #07. XS #06. Wrath of Cortex #05. 4: About Time #04. Twinsanity #03. CTR #02. Cortex Strikes Back #1. Warped

As someone who has also 100%ed all of the non-handheld Crash games, I have the EXACT SAME list at the top. Love your explanations and the order is perfect. Kudos.

Crash Tag Team Racing at 18th is a sin

A great video! And I agree with most of your placements. I'd love for you to do a Spyro ranking! :D

SO Happy to see some love and credit given to crash bandicoot the huge adventure on GBA, That game really made me rethink my love for crash bandicoot in a good way, it almost feels like crash is meant to be a 2D side scrolling platformer, so well done. Great Video!

Crash 2 is my favorite of all time and wrath of cortex is so underrated

Crash Bandicoot 3 Warped is really good but Twinsanity is my favorite, there is just something special about it. And dont let me start talking about soundtrack what a dream come true

But trust me, it won't be. #20 - Crash Boom Bang "Some of a ____!!!!!"

Could you do a video about Crash Twinsanity ?

I didn't played all of these not even close. I played Crash Bandicoot 1-3, CTR and Crash bash. It might be because we had Crash bash the longest and got the other 4, years later, but, it will always be my favorite out of those. So many hours spend on that game, even before we actually found out there are more levels after waiting through closing credits. Which we discovered by chance, after playing it few times.

2:47 - Is that a deformed Samus Aran?

I was crazy enough to get 106% on Crash 4. Twice, and it was great both times.

Your videos are very well done, keep making them , I watched this one and best Mario games countdown, what do you think of Zelda games ? we need a countdown from you.

Great list. Warped is also my favorite Crash game ever made

Bro ik its ur opinion that itsbad but 5 year old me played the hell out of crash boom bang. Nostalgia is still there for it. Havent tried it again tho so I dont have a renewed opinion on it

1) Crash Bandicoot The player only has a few options, spin and jump. Yet the developers get so much use from exploring those mechanics with a slow and steady escalation in difficulty. My only critique is that it is linear, but it makes more plot sense than the warp rooms in other games. Perfection in my opinion. 2) CTR The video pretty well covered all the reasons for this placement. Hard to see where a sequel would have gone aside from delivering more of the same. 3) Crash Bandicoot 2 Still a very good game. Introduction of the slide mechanic, which they were able to really make good use of and explore mechanically. The difficulty curve is much the same as the original, except at the end game there is less of a focus on repeating precise jumps and spins, demanding more singular instances of precise combos, throughout the levels. We also see a wider variety of experimental levels, such as the jet-board, zero-G, dark maps, and climbing rails; of which I only think one worked well, even though others are reused in later games. - The jet-board breaks up the flow of levels, while messing with the players character control. Creative, but a net negative. - The zero-G levels and boss rooms are similar to the jet-board, but with an added dimension, inverted controls and extend for a whole level. Irredeemable. - Dark maps, appear to be on the surface a reversal of the rolling bolder maps, except you don't have a way of gaining distance and the maps don't seem well crafted for it. Most dark maps feel like an ordinary level with dark-mode slapped on as an after thought. - Climbing rails slow the player without disrupting controls or breaking flow. They also add new depth to the slide as it replaces the jump as a way to avoid hostiles. 4) Crash Bandicoot 3 They added too many abilities and were not able to explore them and their combinations in a deep satisfying way. I wager most people who played this game don't recall all of the abilities, without having to look up which ones were in this game. They added flying and racing levels, which should have been their own games ( CTR ) as they handled poorly and were chores to do. They also included water levels both underwater and jet-ski, both were handled poorly, but I don't think either could have been standalone titles. Clearly worse than CB2. While CB2 and CB3 I rate low, most of the reason for that is how they chose to iterate on what worked by adding too much in the case of CB3, or deviating from the core game-play loop as first exhibited in CB2 and worsened in CB3. CB2 and CB3 are excellent in terms of level atmosphere and enemy variety, I really enjoy the look and feel of the Ruins level in CB2 and Egyptian levels in CB3. While CB2 and CB3 are by no means bad games, they are not as well crafted mechanically as CB1 and CTR. The introduction of levels and later mechanics, where the former have game-play flaws and the latter are overabundant and under explored, I can see the downgrade of the series over time.

My top 10: 10. Crash bandicoot n tranced 9. Crash mind over mutant 8. Crash bandicoot the wrath of cortex 7. Crash of the titans 6. Crash bandicoot the huge adventure 5. Crash bandicoot 1 4. Crash twinsanity 3. Crash bandicoot 2 cortex strikes back 2. Crash team racing 1. Crash bandicoot 3 warped I didn't play crash 4 yet Edit: I 100%ed crash 4 and it's my new favorite game in the series 😉👍

Mind over mutant is my favorite...

Crash 3 is literally my childhood. The amount of times I replayed it as a kid is…. N-sane

Crash tag team racing was my favourite crash game of all time

Cortex strikes back being #2 is a power move

My top 5 5. Crash Team Racing (And Ctrnf) 4. Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped 3. Crash Bandicoot The Wrath of Cortex 2. Crash Bash 1. Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back

You better believe I sat through this whole thing just to judge your taste. And man you delivered! Crash 3 is soooo fun. By far the best Crash game.

20) Crash Boom Bang 19) Crash of the Titans (DS) 18) Crash Mind Over Mutant (GBA) 17) Crash Purple: Ripto's Rampage 16) Crash Tag Team Racing 15) Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure 14) Crash: Wrath of Cortex 13) Crash of the Titans (PS2) 12) Crash Nitro Kart (GBA) 11) Crash Bandicoot 2: N Tranced 10) Crash Mind Over Mutant (PS2) 9) Crash of the Titans (DS) 8) Crash Nitro Kart (PS2) 7) Crash Bash 6) Crash Bandicoot 1 5) Crash Twinsanity 4) Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back 3) Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped 2) Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled (NF is superior, but the original would still be #2) 1) Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time

Playstation 1 crash bandicoot games are one of the really good games of ps1. Gba is kicking by itsself her head

The way Naughty Dog handle Crash made me a fan of their brand.(Jak, Uncharted, Last of Us) I was definitely disappointed with Crash Bash because that charm was missing that first 4 games had. Jak and Daxter has its roots grounded in the work ND did on the Crash Series

When I started this video - i thought to myself: "If none of the Original Trilogy is on the first place - I'm leaving a dislike on this one!" Boy, I love how it ended! The only part I'd probably disagre is the Chapter one of the Original Trilogy, but after watching it to the end - I have no choice but to agree)

I expected the top 4 right ✅️ but I never thought that crash bash will be #15 !!!

Brilliant to see CTR placed so high up! The remake is EASILY in my favourite game of all time!

My list: (out of the games that I have played) 13. Crash Purple 12. Crash Mind Over Mutant 11. Crash Tag Team Racing 10. Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced 9. Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex 8. Crash Bandicoot XS 7. Crash Of The Titans 6. Crash Nitro Kart 5. Crash Bandicoot 4 4. Crash Bandicoot 3 3. Crash Bandicoot 2. Crash Team Racing 1. Crash Bandicoot 2 The only game on this list that I would consider bad is Crash Purple.

I will not stand for the slaughter of crash tag team racing, that whole game is phentermine

I had so much fun playing CTTR. I don't appreciate hearing u dump on it so much because it may not be perfect but it's fun, unlike some of these titles u put higher

Broski im a big fan of your videos hope you are well

Ranking tag team racing that low is a crime

I think the only problems I have with these rankings is the bias and unnecessary comparisons. Don't get me wrong, bias is good in reviews and so are the comparisons, especially in rankings. Like in some parts you would downplay certain titles because they didn't have feature X or Y that was introduced in a successor title, comparing is one thing but you also got to rank them on their own standing too (an example being your Crash 1 part). Also like crash tag team racing, which I agree has bad racing etc but has good exploration/progression/gun gameplay, racing isn't everything in that game despite the title. But again bias is good too, a lot of times people downplay titles like Crash 3 and Wrath of Cortex, for trying to re-invent the wheel in certain areas and I still believe those ones are gems to this day. Just genuine critisism and I'm glad you shared your rankings.

One of my fav crash games is tag team racing

Great video, totally agree with your choices ! You should make a Sonic list some day

I can really agree with this list. I just don't like all the different vehicle levels in Crash 3. So Crash 2 would be my number 1.

crash 2 and 3 soundtracks are superb

I remember how good I felt getting my first 105 in Crash 3, I never got all the platinum relics though, because I read in an old Gamepro (or similar) that it wasn't worth it. Maybe I should go back... Warped really is one of the all time greats

It's funny to see XS/Huge Adventure being placed so much higher than N-Tranced here, while I've seen other rankings do the complete opposite. I've played and completed them back to back recently for the first time, and I'd say they're pretty much equal in terms of quality, there are things I both like and don't in both of them, but I really don't think one is leagues above the other. Purple/Fusion is worse than both though, I wish that one only had the platforming stages.

It hurts when “Nitro Fueled” isn’t mentioned in the rankings. I think people were so angry over the MTs they pretend it’s nonexistent,and that’s a shame,because outside of that it’s a really fun game!

tag team racing is really really good tbh

Why is Wrath of Cortex so hated? Sure it looks different and it has a few bugs but it holds a special place in my heart because I used to play it with my grandpa.

Crash 1 OG is the best. Definitely should have been higher than 9... jesus.

The sound effect when you showed the next number on the screen heavily reminds me of sound effects in the Wind Waker

I wanted to see how many of these games I had the chance to play - it seems like 7, quite a lot I must say. though Twinsanity and Tag Team Racing seem like a fever dream to me. I'm still not sure if I really played Tag Team Racing but that sequence with collecting chickens seemed oddly familiar to me The same with Wrath of Cortex - some levels shown here ring a bell Also yes. I completed Crash 4 with 106% too. Which is amazing given the fact that at first I didn't even wanna challenge that because my best time relics were gold. But then I tried and tried, implied some tricks, and it turned out I'm capable of this crazy achievement of getting 106% on the game hah

You did not put wrath of cortex over the og 🤦🏻‍♂️

Bruh Tag Team Racing despite not really encouraging racing is a banger!

1) Crash 3 2) CTR 3) Crash 1 4) Crash 2 5) Crash Bash 6) Crash WoC

Tag team racing is fun!!!

Crash of the titans deserves more love "Harharhar different = bad people used to say"

Think my favorites are mostly based on the overall aesthetics of the games. I value games for how much I can hop into it and forget the real world exists. At the top there i have to place Crash 2 and Twinsanity and I think alot of the tie-breakers there lands on the music.

I'd DEFINITELY swap places between Crash 4 and Crash 1. Plus, in my personal ranking, Crash 2 is the best Crash game of all time.

Imagine including the hand held games but not the remakes, even tho they're totally superior versions and, dare I say, in the case of CTRNF, even a totally different game.

I played the warped, cortex strikes back, the original, and team racing but I have also watched cortex wrath, twin sanity, and nitro cart and I think the best is warped

1. Crash warped, 2. Crash cortex strikes back 3. Crash twinsanity 4. Crash the wrath of cortex, 5. Crash bash 6. Crash bandicoot 7. Crash team racing 8. Crash it's about time 9. Crash nitro kart 10. Crash tag team racing 19. Crash over the mutant 20. Crash of the titans

He got 456 GEMS FOR ANOTHER ENDING FOR CRASH 4

It's nice you didn't dump on Titans and Mind Over Mutant, I loved both those games, they definitely weren't perfect, but they were really fun... but yeah the backtracking in MOM was a pain in the ass.

I loved Wrath of Cortex as a kid. My brother and I loved the game as kids

The Wrath of Cortex was the reason back in the day for me to get PS2. It decerves a remaster. I like also Crash 3 and 2. The last good Crash game that came out in my opinion was Crash Twinsanity. When I was playing Crash Twinsanity and had completed about 70% of the game and tried to load my save I couldn't load it. My save data had got corrupted for some weird reason and I still don't know why. I never palyed the game till the end because of that incident. After that game the series took a werid turn. . I bought Crash of the Titans in 2007. I regret that decision. I got rid of that game. It was way too different. It was good that that we got the N. Sane Trilogy.

Twinsanity is not only the most broken & unfinished crash game, but it's also terribly designed and has the most frustrating game design in the entire series. Find it really hard to believe this mess is good in any way when it has unskippable cutscenes that can be retriggered and a terrible checkpoint system plus you can accidently replay sets of levels again. The fact the this rushed mess gets praised for basically ruining the integrity of the series is pretty sad. Twinsanity = overrated trash that shouldn't have been released for being unfinished.

Bash, 2, and Team racing are my top 3 from 3rd 2nd and 1st respectively

Crash 4 is almost a collectathon I didn't mind squeezing hours out of the game, because it was fun and we might not get Crash 5 for a while

Crash 4 was a shameless and complete cash grab. 20% New gameplay and levels, 80% replaying levels 4-5 times just to get 100%. Should have known better seeing that Activision was in charge.

I am honestly astonished that anything Titans-like ranked better than CTTR or N.Tranced... And even more that Purple did, despite personally enjoying it more. BTW, 4 is my favorite precisely because of the difficulty (I'm crazy both in skills and how much I'll push them), and have done everything minus dev times in all non-Titans games besides Boom Bang. Beat console Titans waiting for it to "get good", and it never did.

I didn’t know TTR would have such polar reviews. I personally enjoyed the game quite a lot, but who knows, maybe my nostalgia glasses are blinding me.

I have plans to Beat all the Crash games in order next year

Someone who actually thought crash bash was decent

I did everything in Crash 4 but the time trials. I actually also didn't do them in the other crash games.

Bro you alive?

I actually loved getting 106% in Crash 4😅

CTTR deserves more love

I loved crash bash such a fun game to play with friends

Of course the game in the description is crash bash

Rating tag team racing so low hurts my soul. But you do make some valid points about it

games made by ND are the best crash remastered are good too. crash 4 surprised me by its difficulty in keeping its origins i like. I'm looking for the platinum trophy

Twinsanity was hugely rushed due to deadlines. It could've been polished so much more and it had so many more levels too! What a shame. Still a good game though.

Great video. I’ve subscribed.

I don't give a shit what anyone says. Crash Purple is the worst game in the series.

The first 16 secs don't make sense to me, sonic crashed onto the scene in 1996 and he's a plumber?

my ranking always changes, & i like all of these, but: okay games - 24. Crash Mind over Mutant DS 23. Crash Bandicoot Blast 22. Crash Boom Bang! 21. Crash Party USA 20. Crash Nitro Kart pretty good - 19. Crash on the Run! (R.I.P.) 18. Crash of the Titans GBA 17. Crash Team Rumble 16. Crash Bash great - 15. Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time 14. Crash of the Titans 13. Crash Bandicoot Fusion 12. Crash: Mind Over Mutant 11. Crash Nitro Kart GBA 10. Crash Twinsanity 9. Crash Tag Team Racing 8. Crash of the Titans DS 7. Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced 6. Crash Bandicoot brilliant - 5. Crash Team Racing 4. Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex 3. Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back 2. Crash Bandicoot XS 1. Crash Bandicoot: Warped (my favourite game ever)

10:59 ah, he did that too, by that I mean call the score multiplier multiplayer lol, I actually completely finished mind over mutant and I actually like it

WHAT, i thought Crash 4 was going to be number 1.