Crash Tag Team Racing
After being humiliated yet again by Crash Bandicoot at the end of Crash Twinsanity, Cortex returns to his evil scheming in his dilapidated Iceberg Lair. He stumbles across a newspaper article regarding the…
Crash Tag Team Racing is an arcade developed by Radical Entertainment, released 14 October 2005 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The main story takes about 8 hrs to finish.
What Crash Tag Team Racing is
Crash Tag Team Racing is an arcade game developed by Radical Entertainment and released in 2005. It was published by Sierra Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It runs on Titanium.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Von Clutch's MotorWorld, a perilous auto-racing theme park owned by the cyborg Ebenezer Von Clutch, faces closure due to the theft of its Power Gems, including the Black Heart Power Gem that keeps Von Clutch active. To recover them, Von Clutch announces a race across the park's five lands, with the winner gaining ownership of the park. Appearing at the park in the midst of a chaotic car chase are the Bandicoots Crash, Coco, and Crunch, along with their foes Doctor Neo Cortex, his niece Nina, and Doctor N. Gin. Both teams are summoned to Von Clutch's office, where he pleads for their help to recover the stolen Gems. Cortex is initially dismissive, but sees an opportunity to seize the park as…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Crash Bandicoot series
Crash Tag Team Racing is the 33rd of 72 entries we hold in the Crash Bandicoot series. It arrived 9 months after Crash Twinsanity 3D. The next entry was Crash Superpack: Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced / Crash Nitro Kart in 2005. Its critic score of 60 is 8 points below the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time at 86.
How it was received
Crash Tag Team Racing holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 7 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 64, across 86 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 12 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Crash Tag Team Racing launched on 14 October 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV and Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005). All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV, Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005).
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Crash Tag Team Racing yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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