The Cancelled Crash Team Racing Game - In Depth Look 

CTR 2010 was canceled because it was associated to Crash Landed. That project was canceled, so this one was canceled too because that racing game had no reason to exist without its mainline game. Also yes, all the work that was put into CTR 2010 was repurposed as that Dreamworks racing game. It would have been a waste not to do so, I mean, still better than no racing game at all

I don't know who wrote the reason for the cancellation of CTR2010 on Bandipedia, but they are absolutely wrong. CTR2010 was a project inextricably connected to Crash Landed (or I Am Crash Bandicoot or, again, Crash Of The Bandicoots, that was the final name submitted to Activision). With the cancellation of Landed, its dedicated spin-off was also cancelled and turned into something else (DreamWorks SuperStar Kartz). The development of Landed and CTR2010 began already when Activision Blizzard had been born for quite some time.

no joke i want a new ctr more than i want gta 6

The mod kart customization was genius! Each mod has special perks!

Yeah, I honestly think there are lots of cool ideas here for a future Crash racing game, especially the mod carts feature that kinda changes the track for the player based on which cart type/mod they choose. Very neat idea that would be cool to actually try out.. Great video!

One of the developers on this game, Dave Goodrich, started streaming recently, and he said he took the idea for modding the karts from his pride and joy, Vigilante 8. I think he mentioned he has some test footage, but that might just be the video shown here. He has come concept art from some of his other games, so maybe he has some stuff written down from this project. Also, on the topic of cancelled Crash games, a YTer was rummaging thru an old developer model XBox from the 2000's, and he found some files for a Crash/Spyro crossover kart racer. It's a fully playable demo, and has a delightfully cursed intro FMV, but there isn't too much known about it.

I really like what I see in this trailer, the mod kart system is really unique, the trick animations look pretty cool, and everything else was just fine. Its a shame this didn't got finished and got its proper release and I would love if the next Crash team racing game takes notes from this. Also if you are discovering a trailer of a canceled Activision game, why not check out the two obscure Family Guy road to death trailers that the game was changed to back to the multiverse because Seth MacFarlane complained that it was to violent & bloody and that he Didn't want a Family Guy Zombie shooter.

The Kart mod thing reminds me of Sonic Riders which you could do different shortcuts depending on what board you had. Some could grind on rails, some could fly, and some could smash through stuff. So I think they inspiration from that since Riders came out 2 years before this

This lost CTR game was meant to tie into Crash Landed, which it lost it's leadership which lacked direction thus production grinded to a halt and the project got binned not long after, Activision Blizzard was betting hard on this reboot for Crash Bandicoot and even already spent money on promotional work including a McDonald's deal which because of the project's slow pace it wasn't meant to be and CTR 2010 was just another casualty added to the list.

There is actually one more video! It’s really short but it’s basically just a couple animations that would’ve been in the game ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dbnxZ_Gqpjg.htmlfeature=shared

If it’s possible, I think you should try to get a copy of that Dreamworks kart racing game and do a video on it. See what features are on it and see if it’s just a reskinned CTR 👍

wow great timing, i was just talking to a friend about wanting a nitro fueled pc port about 20 mins ago so im in the mood for some CTR content

You never played nickelodeon kart racer 2 grand prix? It has the mod feature and i think its balanced. What i think the problem with modding the car is that the level force you into choosing the mod instead of it being option. Solution? You need to make a really good level that has multiple shortcuts and obstacles that can be passed by different mods so whatever mod you take, you will always find a use for it in every level. That way the mod will be something the player choose based on their play style and not based on the level. Small example: a level with 2 different short cuts one require a mod to dive into water and the other mod to fly. That way, people who like the dive control will take the water mod while people who like the flying control will take the fly mod. Both shortcuts will save the same time.

You should do a video on that cancelled Crash game where you use the frog gun and save the little baby bandicoots too.

All of these customization options do seem promising, the problem is that if these were released today under Activision, i'm sure all of it would miscrotransactioned lootbox garbage. And keep in mind, Nitro Fueled was already pretty harshly criticized for it's microtransactions even when the kart modification was only purely cosmetic. AKA this would be just be more of what Rumble and On the Run did, sadly...

Yo ur my fav you tuber you carried my lockdown and your an underated youtuber

Would love to see you try out that DreamWorks game

This looked like it could have been pretty good

we missed you man wish if there is new crash game just like CTR NF to have fun

According to the Crash Mania article, the Crash game was much more ambitious than Dreamworks Superstar Kartz and besides a few similarities, the two projects aren't that related.

Those mods allowing access to different parts of the tracks remind me of the Sonic Riders games which have a very similar mechanic, the second game even uses anti-gravity in a more involved way than both CNK and MK8!

This looks sooooo fun I can’t believe we got crash rumble instead, I hate activision

Mostly i feel that wile i played a bit superstar karts they had toothless in It as playable character. It make me think It was supposted be Spyro initialy. There no way most of the cast went looked inside they thinked Hey thats looking black dragon thing? Put there.

Oddly enough it reminds me of Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity. Though, in that game racers are divided by classes: Speed, Fly and Power if I'm not wrong. They can use their advantages to get to new faster routes depending on the stage itself. Knuckles for example can punch a wall blocking a shortcut, Tails can fly as long as there are rings to do it and Sonic...I don't really remember.

If this game was finished and released, I think it would have been criticized for being rather too violent to some extent.

The issue with mods you're missing, tracks only have so much space and only so many mods are useful on a track. The idea people would use different things is neat and true for the first few days. Then people learn the tracks and each one has an optimal mod set. Many mods won't work, or the lack of shortcuts means aggressive mods are the focus. It all breaks really quickly. It gets even worse if they manage to "balance" them to all be viable. Then you end up with aggressive/defensive ones being key. Stuff like the Frog Engine could be used to jump over used items and take shortcuts. So you're left with a game where you're constantly switching out mods to stand a chance or stuck using the same few mods endlessly to stand a chance. At least from a PvP perspective, in PvE this could be a non-issue since you just have to win and AI often rubberbands meaning anything could work unless they really mess it up.

Kinda wish Land Shark will make a appearance in a Future Crash game or whatnot I don't Know. 🤖

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Honestly, it would have been a good step up as a sequel as opposed to getting more of the same. This would have been hella better than Crash Tag Team Racing. Speaking of which, this reminds me of a like mix of Tag Team Racing art with ideas of Mario Kart Double Dash and Mario Kart wii. The whole kart customization would be quickly ripped apart to use the most optimized set while forgetting about the rest. In nitro fueled, I did say that "Engine Swap" was going to be a "Bandaid fix" and wouldnt solve the core problem, and i was 100% correct. The meta was Speed or Drift. Any other engines if you pick, you put yourself in disadvantage for no real reward, besides boosting one's ego.

This "In Depth Look" is great to start a new series focusing on content like this

Hopefully Mario or sonic didn’t get a racing game cancelled

It is a shame this game got cancelled because it definitely looks like fun. I just wish kart racers were unique and entertaining again and that's what made the Crash Racing games fun. They didn't feel like Mario Kart ripoffs as they actually had some different feel to them. Plus I do hope they decide to bring this idea back up as it could knock Mario Kart 8 Deluxe out of the water, although I do think Nitro Fueled is better just could've had more especially some of the Tag Team Tracks

It's kind of unfortunate though, I think this game is pretty hype and actually doing something with Polar that's more than a Rideable Animal Buddy being able to create giant snowballs and ride those for a bit before it gets destroyed taking out other racers that get in the way, a pretty hype mechanic along with the other Special Character Specific Power Ups and the wild Kart Customization being more than just upping your stats and looking good, this had potential I would be happy if another racer did mechanics like what happened here at least, it would make me happy.

I remember these features from some of the Cars games from the PSP times, had a blast playing that, magnetic wheels and stuff

For Lewis I will watch the 16 seconds of unskippable ad

Looks cool, but looks like all these gimmicks could easily dilute the core CTR style gameplay that made the game so fun to play. Would have been interesting to see if they could have managed to sucessfully blend both old and new mechanics.

We need a new kart game

Crash got Shreked

another crash vid let's go

The song 🔥

Please make a vid like this on Crash Landed please!

They have to remaster this game just like they did with CTR

I played Dreamworks Super Star Kartz recently

Wow I've never heard of this, and I'm a huge fan of Crash who absolutely loved CTR on the PS1. It looks...interesting. Certainly lacks the CTR feel though.

@WumpaLewis at 2:40 the tire mods for this CTR, I designed after the other game I created called Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense where you could mod your tires to drive on different surfaces. The Warthog bumper also broke through barriers in the later builds.

Crash team rumble is on sale. Can you make some sort of review on it?

Yessir

The idea of Kart mods sounds good for AI races but not so much for Time Trials and Online races because people will find the optimal mod/route and use only that.

It looked really good, especially the character desgins, the same ones from Crash Landed. But looking at High Impact Games' track record maybe it's fine it never released lol.

In all honesty, if we get a second Crash racing game, it probably won't do as well as CTR. I don't know why, but the further you go down the line with Crash's racing history(CTR, NK, CTTR) the sales dropped following the next. Nitro Kart did worse than the original and Tag Team did worse than Nitro Kart. A second game would not sell as much as Nitro Fueled. This is a personal opinion.

Considering this was going to be made by High Impact Games. I'm glad they didn't. Their games only ever amounted to medicore results to downright poor quality, their Jak & Daxter entry in particular killing that series. Their take on CTR would have most likely been janky to control with horrid camera control and performance. That is the High Impact Games guarentee.

Crash of the Titans music in the background ❤️

Imagine how different the series would be today if both this and crash landed actually came out. Would the reboot be successful? Would radical entertainment still be alive to this day? Would the remakes, crash 4 and rumble even exist? Would we see crash games released on systems like the 3ds and ps vita and games on ps4 and xbone earlier on in thier lifespan? Would crash landed become the default style going forward, and how would activision treat the games, would they pump out a new one each year like they did with skylanders or would they give devs more time to cook?

Animations are cool, but the mod sustem would destroy the game tbh, the idea of you cant use cosmetics bc it changes ur style is garbage and the stall in online would be insane

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If this got released we probably wouldn't have gotten nitro fueled

So Lewis, you're not playing crash team rumble? There were toy lab modes. You could've tried them, but nope. By the way, i will unsubcribe your channel since you make boring videos. Bye

Uh crash team rumble is there to make content on….