Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure

by Vicarious Visions

Product Features

• single-player action
• six locations
• near-3D graphics
• classic characters
• 20 levels

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005V9NJ
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: February 26, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,689 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure marks the first time Crash has appeared on a handheld system. The game contains 20 levels and features six unique locations that take Crash from the Mayan jungle to frigid Arctic caverns. Gameplay modes include side-scrolling, 3-D chase levels and aerial dogfight combat sequences. Crash is once again pitted against his archnemesis, the evil Dr. Neo Cortex. Orbiting high above Earth, Cortex has decided to abandon his fixation on our hero and redirect his evil focus to world domination. Using his latest invention, a massive shrinking ray, Cortex takes aim and fires at Earth, shrinking the planet to the size of a grapefruit. Luckily, Crash's brilliant kid sister Coco is feverishly working on a machine to reverse the effects, but she needs crystals from around the world to power her invention. It is up to Crash to retrieve the crystals and help return the entire planet to its natural state.

Product Description

Crash's first non-PlayStation outing, brought to the GBA as a side-scroller with 3D bonus stages. Dr. N Cortex, Crash's creator as well as his evil nemesis has world domination plans on a much smaller scale -- he's shrunk the planet to the size of a grapefruit while everyone's still on it. Which means our hero (along with the general public) is probably about ankle-high to a microbe or something...and that's pretty darn tiny. Cortex literally has the whole world in his hands now, and it's up to Crash Bandicoot to make it through the game's four worlds of five levels, collecting crystals that'll, hopefully, return the planet and its inhabitants to their rightful size.

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Customer Reviews

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A surprisingly fun game!, March 7, 2002

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San Fran Gruuv Fan (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure (Video Game)

After the "Crash" debacle on the Playstation 2, I was flat out suspicious when I learned that the same company would also be developing a Crash game for the GBA. My confidence wasn't lifted much when I also heard that it wouldn't have any boards with Crash running forward the way he does in the original titles.

But, thank heavens, this time Vivendi Universal got it right.

Sure, there aren't really any "running straight forward" levels on here, but who cares? Except for that one tiny little detail, the game is just a hairsbreath away from convincing you that you are playing Crash Bandicoot 2 or 3.

For the animation, Vivendi had the good sense to digitize the actual animation frames from the original games instead of trying to redesign them, so the action flows perfectly with the precise same liquid expression and energy as the Naughty Dog titles. And for warping, they took approximately five or six frames which would work the best and laid them against each other like animation frames to create the appearing/disappearing effect. Very clever, and an excellent way to guarantee that Crash would look every bit as charming in cartridge form!

They also have the promised "ride the polar bear towards you" boards, as well as such dizzyingly fun rides as the spacepack boards (the first one with you flying through the clouds is a LOT of fun and a lot more successful than the repetitive airplane boards from 3). So I guarantee anyone out there as much of a faithful conversion as possible here!

My only complaints are minor: here's hoping that by the next game they'll be able to put "run forward" boards in... and also, I was surprised that Crash apparently never does his famous victory dance! At least not that I've seen so far. Why, I have no idea. But both as minor considering the impressive amount that's been squeezed into the tiny cartridge.

A must buy!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crash Bandicoot: The HUGE Adventure, April 3, 2002

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure (Video Game)

I got this game for Easter. It's just like Crash for PSX. It has all like, "original" levels and scenery like in Crash Bandicoot Warped. The graphics are very real and they make you feel like you're really in them. A good thing is it's supposed to kind of be like Crash Bandicoot 5: The Wrath of Cortex and since I don't have PSX2, it makes it seem like the one for PSX2. Crash (as usual) has to find all the crystals, gems, and relics to gain back the power of the Earth from the evil (and a bit demented) Dr. Neo Cortex. He gets a little help from his little sister, Coco, his pet polar bear, Polar, and his friendly witch doctor mask, Aku-Aku. The game controls are easy to learn. In the first few Warp Chambers, the levels are not too challenging. I mean, I got 19% in only 31/2 days! And I'm all ready in Warp Chamber #2. It's good for kids 8 and up I'd say. It might be a bit too easy for adults (unless you've never played a Nintendo, Playstation, or a GameBoy game before!). There's the bosses from Warped, Dingodile, Dr. N. Gin, Tiny Tiger, and Dr. Neo Cortex himself. From deep diving to jet packs, you'll have tons of fun! See for yourself in Crash Bandicoot: The HUGE Adventure!

15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST HAVE FOR YOUR GBA - BETTER THAN SONIC, March 1, 2002

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Jama Lewis (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure (Video Game)

I play a lot of GBA games - Rayman, Advance Wars, Mario I, Mario 2, Tony Hawk, Castlevania, Mario Kart...and the list goes on. I think it is one of the best platforms out there for pure enjoyment! Today I picked up a new title that makes me even more excited to own a GBA - CRASH BANDICOOT!

I was a big fan of Crash on the PlayStation and the GBA version really delivers that experience - more than I thought it would. There's the standard side-scroll stuff, but all the moves, enemies and level design is there and is tons of fun. There's also some stuff I've never seen on GBA before until now - 3D into the camera - Crash rides on a Polar Bear while being chased by a giant Snow Monster - it's awesome! The game isn't an old Crash game re-hashed for GBA like Sonic, Rayman or Mario it's a new story with new levels and some new game types, but it is all that you want a Crash Gameboy Advance game to be. So far I've played through about 30% of the game and really think it is one of the best platformers out there - graphics are much better than Mario (hands down)! Gameplay is on par with Mario (better than Sonic and Rayman) and overall appeal is better than all of them!!!