This was the chance to do something different and, for a title that’s a shoddy imitation of Warped, there’s no attempt at explaining how Cortex, Uka Uka, and N. For that same reason, it’s also glaringly uninspired. Barring some lackluster facial animation, it sets things up rather well and replicates the simple yet successful plots of the originals, which weren’t exactly Shakespeare: Cortex devises evil scheme Crash works against said scheme. Crunch’s power can only be unleashed through the medium of four animate masks called the Elementals: rulers of fire, water, earth, and air. The story is functional if unoriginal, as Cortex, with a little forced prodding from Uka Uka, discloses his master plan to defeat Crash via a genetically altered super-bandicoot called Crunch who, like Crash himself in the series’ debut, is being manipulated to serve evil (what could possibly go wrong there …). A good project turned to a bad one faster than you can say Uka Uka. Unfortunately, a dispute with Universal Interactive meant that Traveller’s Tales were forced to abandon the project and make a new game from scratch, and given just a year in which to do it. Mark Cerny had his plans set on an open-ended, free-roaming take on everybody’s favorite marsupial, the envisioned title being Crash Bandicoot Worlds. Yet the bog-standard installment that is today known as The Wrath of Cortex was originally supposed to be much different. It’s About (Lack of) Timeįollowing 1998’s Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, fans had to wait until 2001 for a mainline sequel. This is mashed up, average-as-you-get Bandicoot hashed together at the last minute. This is not Crash Bandicoot at its vintage best.
But Toys for Bob must have taken one look at The Wrath of Cortex and decided to steer well clear, because in the end they decided to do their own thing, and it’s easy to see why. The original trilogy got the makeover treatment, as did Crash Team Racing. In the early build-up to Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, there was speculation that it might be a remake of Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex.
20 Years Later: Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
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