Customer Reviews

Crash Bandicoot

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4 star:		(31)
3 star:		(12)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

Because it is a CD based unit a lot of the games on the Sony Playstation have a tendancy to be slow in their game play, especally while they boot up into the system. "Crash Bandicoot" does not have a lot of statistics that it needs to download so all you have to do is hit start and within moments the fun begins. With rich graphics and an adorable character "Crash Bandicoot" will have people who enjoy games like "Sonic the Hedgehog" and "Donkey Kong" sitting on their couches and playing this game until their thumbs become rigid with arthritis. Young children whll enjoy Crash's antics, especally when the game comes to a stop for a few moments and Crash is forced to wait for the player to continue. Older players will like all of the hidden extra levels and bonuses that they can trip over during game play.

The orginal Crash Bandicoot is pretty good. The graphics have a cartoonish feel instead of the 3-D look of Crash Bandicoot: Warped. The first cople of levels are pretty easy but then it just gets hard. There is no advancing in the difficultly, it just does from simpe to alost impossible. The 4th level is probably one of the hardest in the games which confuses me. In my personal opinion, the game should be easy till about the 5th level then increase in difficultly so it doesn't appear obvious that the level you are playing is very hard. The bosses are quite easy to defeat except for N. Brio, who is twice has hard the main enemy, N. Brutus. The game, though, is a lot better than any of the Marios or Banjo-Koozies. The sercet levels give you extra lifes that will definately help you later on in the game. The game in my personal opinio, is a little to childish. The characters are child-like except for the main villian and the attacks are pretty tame. But overall, the game is great for your kids. It has a possiblity of being one of the best adventure series ever and it is definately the best game on the Playstaion consule. Of course, that's only my opinion.

I have never managed to beat the game, can't imagine how some people claim to do so in 5 hours. My 5 year old has finally figured out how to play these games on the playstation. She was getting frustrated with Crash, until I found the code that allows you to go to any level and play. Plus if you go to the Castle Machinery level first, you get 20 some free lives and then can go where you want. Find the password screen and punch in: T(triangle),T,T,T,X,S(square),T,T,T,T,S,X,T,O,T,T,T,O,S,T,X,X,X,X. Maybe it is cheating, but for us folks that have a hard time beating the game, it makes playing it more fun!

I remember telling my mom and my little brother that this game looked stupid and that I didn't wanna play it when they first got a Playstation and this game. I finally gave in and played it however. After playing it for the first time, I got hooked and it was AWESOME. It has some of the best graphics I had seen at the time and most of the levels are fun. It got me hooked so bad, that my family couldn't get me away from it. I told them that I was going to beat the game first and that it was their fault that I got addicted to the game and wanted to beat it in my first few sittings because they had begged me to play it and now I couldn't quit playing it.

What I liked best about it was the great graphics and that unlike a lot of video games I've played, it has a good challenge to it. Some of the levels are almost impossibly hard, but most of them are well balanced to give you a good challenge while not being overly difficult or easy. It also has good replay value. I've beat this game about 5 times. Every now and then it's fun to just take Crash Bandicoot for a spin if you want to play a fun game. I recommend this title to anyone.

Crash Bandicoot is the best. If you are patient and like running around crashing boxes open, jumping over holes in the ground, running under jungle rollers, and doing away with skunks, this is the game for you! There is only one problem that I found. You can crash certain boxes open to get a free life, but when you run out of them, you have to do the previous level over, too. But don't worry. I am an impatient person sometimes, and I get along fine. I just bought this game, believe it or not, and it's the coolest.

For Christmas This Year I got Crash Bandicoot. The first time I played It, It hooked me in. Then It got my parents.Relitives Came over, Same again. It is so realistic. It's 3D, great soundafects,good grafics. It's got everything. I would would Recomend It for Your Household!

This game is the most thrilling game i have ever played. If you like games where you go through so many levels and get secret bonuses and passwords this is the game for you!

It's that simple Crash Bandicoot is the best game of all time. It crushes Mario 64 and places right up there with Goldeneye and Jumping Flash. Why you may ask? Well, it may seem only fair in rating standards, but it is simply so much fun. From the hog chasing level to the boss Pinstripe the Potteroo. Combine this with excellent graphics and immersive game play make this a real winner. That and the story's pretty cool. So strap on your helmate and prepare for battle with APAAATARAIACAK, CAUSE THIS IS ONE WILD RIDE.

I bought this game when I first got my PS1 because I loved playing my cousin's Crash Bandicoot 2 game. While this game is fun, the part I hate about it is you have no control over when you can save the game. You are given the option at odd points in the game, and even if you beat 3 levels after the level you saved at, if you start over, you'll start at the level you saved at, and not the one you most recently beat.
...I recommend getting this game because it IS fun...

Crash Bandicoot's my favorite video game character and all his work is genius. I'm looking forward to his latest video game installment, Crash Tag Team Racing. The game's graphics are good, the gameplay itself sounds amuzing, and the trailer (on GameSpot) prove how visually stunning it's going to be too. But, Crash's humble beginning is not the same as Mario and Sonic's were. It was much better, more creative, and bigger.

Mario's was just an arcade game. It was hard, but it didn't take to long to master it, and I don't even know if there was a boss. Sonic's debut was better then Mario's. A game you could play without spending money, good levels, challenging, better bosses, and a special ending you could view if you collected all the items necessary. But, these debuts lacked what Crash's had. Most challenging, best bosses, better secret ending, and most of all, a 3-D world to play in.

Crash's world is not fully 3-D in this game (in fact up till Crash Twinsanity, none of them have been), but it is very good as far as it goes. The VIRTUAL world looks like the REAL world. That's one of the game's strongest points. The controls are very solid and Crash responds amazingly well to your commands. This spoiled me. I'd play a Crash game and then go play something else with looser controls and be upset by the lack of response. I became versatile after a while though. Crash lacks moves in this game, but he has more then Sonic and/or Mario had in their debut games. Crash has 3, Mario and Soinc only had 1. Crash's moves are running, jumping, and spinning. The spinnig move is an extremely creative thing. To make up for Sonic's spin, Naughty Dog brought out the bigger and better guns. Crash's spin is much easier to control and is much more effective. It also doesn't threaten you in a strange, almost indescribable way. Sonic's spin reqired that you dash in the direction that you were facing before you started spinning. Sega called this the spin dash. This could throw you to your death. Not Crash's. Crash could move or stay still when spinning. Note: Soinc didn't have the spin dash in his debut game. Mario and Sonic's jumping, I'll admit, was better. They were tighter then Crash. Their direction could be changed much, much easier then Crash when jumping. Crash jumps higher though. Crash runs kind of slow, especially when you need to get something done. But he's slower in Crash Twinsanity. Crash's camera control is hardly ever a problem. Every once in a while you'll have to strain your eye a little, but it's still a better camera then Soinc's. Mario's is best out of all, though, 'cause you could see the entire level all at once.

As for the other features of the game, they're pretty outstanding. The levels are big and challenging. There's also secret levels in Crash. I've never seen anything like that in Sonic 1 or Donkey Kong, have you? No, I didn't think so. Crash's biggest flaw is the saving system. In the game, you must collect 3 tokens of Crash's girfriend's head (hidden in the level) to get to a bonus area. You must get to the end of the Tawna (Crash's girlfriend's name is Tawna) Bonus Round, touch Tawna (who's just standing there), and then exit the Tawna Bonus Round via a warp pad in order to save. If you don't do exactly what I said had to be done in order to save, you don't get to save. Not fair at all. But, it's still better then Sonic 1 or Donkey Kong, 'cause you can't save at all in those games. There are also two other kinds of bonus rounds in the game, The Cortex (main bad guy of the game) Bonus Rounds and the Brio (Cortex's right-hand man) Bonus Rounds. You can't save in these bonus rounds, even if you get to the end of them without falling off the platforms. Oh and get this, there aren't Tawna Bonus Rounds in all the levels, so you don't have a chance to save if your parents tell you to get off and you're in a level like Hog Wild where there's no bonus rounds. Big flaw. The 2nd biggest flaw is the way you have to collect gems. In the game you must collect 32 (I think; don't quote me on that number, because I'm not sure) gems in order to see the secret ending. However, it's a little too hard to collect them all. I understand most people think the game's not hard enough, but I think it's a little too hard. To collect a gem, you must destroy every single crate in a level and get to the end without losing a life. I'm all for destroying every crate, but I think you should be able to lose a life and still get the gem. It should only matter if you destroy all the boxes.

So, if you're wanting to compare Mario and Sonic to Crash, I'd say Crash all the way. And, as you can see, if you're reading this, Crash's 1st game was much better then Mario and Sonic's. I say Crash is best, no matter what anyone else tells me.