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Hero of Legend · Nov 26, 2014

Most of you remember CTTR which was by Radical and came out on GC, PS2, Xbox, and PSP, well the DS version which was canned was to be by Sensory Sweep (who are no longer around). Well thanks to the interwebs we FINALLY have some info and better yet, screens of it to see what could have been!

Long story short, it was canned due to Mario Kart DS' release and the fear of not selling well alongside it. I kinda call BS on that, you don't think MKDS fans would've wanted to check it out if it was good?

http://www.crashmania.net/crash-tag-team-racing-ds/

Umm, WOW!

Cleaned up aside, it's surprisingly good, I expected it to be ugly as hell, given Sensory Sweep didn't exactly make good games IIRC.

Would've loved to have played this, I adored it on GC.

And how are the textures not blocky due to the lack of texture filtering on the DS? Might be artificially cleaned up as well for show.

QuantumZebra · Nov 26, 2014

Busaiku · Nov 26, 2014

QuantumZebra said:

Eh, without ND, I wouldn't expect much.

Crimsonclaw111 · Nov 26, 2014

"KILL ME"

Damn, what could have been.

Takao · Nov 26, 2014

Hero of Legend said:
Long story short, it was canned due to Mario Kart DS' release and the fear of not selling well alongside it. I kinda call BS on that, you don't think MKDS fans would've wanted to check it out if it was good?

that's a big if

Itchy//Tasty · Nov 26, 2014

Crash looks really good there, very 'classic'. This was before his tattoo redesign, right?

WarRock · Nov 26, 2014

So, that makes two Crash games for the DS that were canceled? Damn.

WillyFive · Nov 26, 2014

Hero of Legend said:
And how are the textures not blocky due to the lack of texture filtering on the DS? Might be artificially cleaned up as well for show.

Because the DS isn't rendering them. You can also tell simply because of the much higher screen resolution.

WarRock said:
So, that makes two Crash games for the DS that were canceled? Damn.

Yeah, the prototype with the open world looked fantastic.

Leafhopper · Nov 26, 2014

ND didn't have Crash at this point so it probably wouldn't have been good anyway.

HooYaH · Nov 26, 2014

It was cancelled due to Sony buying Crash rights back and it will be unveiled at Sony's PS Vegas event.

JuanLatino · Nov 26, 2014

HooYaH said:
It was cancelled due to Sony buying Crash rights back and it will be unveiled at Sony's PS Vegas event.

Believe.

GoldandBlue · Nov 26, 2014

HooYaH said:
It was cancelled due to Sony buying Crash rights back and it will be unveiled at Sony's PS Vegas event.

So Sony has had the rights for 9 years and are suddenly going to do something with it now?

Komo · Nov 26, 2014

Ouch. This actually looked really good.

Poltergust · Nov 26, 2014

This reminds me, Chocobo's Racing 3DS also got canned. =(

ArtHands · Nov 26, 2014

Crimsonclaw111 said:
"KILL ME"

Damn, what could have been.

The right UV texture map is like a crash bandicoot fur carpet.

themagicalkitsune · Nov 26, 2014

Shame, looks dope.

sn00zer · Nov 26, 2014

Did you know there are 3 Crash Racing games released? And that they featured the MK8 gravity track design?

Also they were bad

In a perfect alternate univere Sumo was hired to make Playstation All Star Racing instead of Sonic All Star Racing

Nimby · Nov 26, 2014

Tag Team Racing was objectively shit. At this point, Crash was just another soulless IP sent to Hell for a quick buck.

wrestleman · Nov 26, 2014

sn00zer said:
they featured the MK8 gravity track design?

Only Crash Nitro Kart, which came out in 2003.

Also, are you including Crash Team Racing in "Bad"? Because I disagree.

Nimby said:
objectively

Father_Brain · Nov 26, 2014

Sensory Sweep made reeeeaaaaallllyyyy fucking bad games, IIRC, so I highly doubt the world lost anything of value here. But interesting nonetheless.

Squishy3 · Nov 26, 2014

HooYaH said:
It was cancelled due to Sony buying Crash rights back and it will be unveiled at Sony's PS Vegas event.

So Sony bought the rights in 2005 because that's the year the game would have come out based on the comments of it being cancelled because of Mario Kart DS despite the fact Vivendi/Activision released multiple Crash games up until 2010 and with publicly available information Activision still retains the Crash Bandicoot rights?

There's a reason why that Crash Bandicoot silhouette in that one Sony video is just a silhouette and not an actual picture of the character.

Nimby · Nov 26, 2014

wrestleman said:

Nothing wrong with liking inferior kart racers. I mean it is like, your opinion, man.

wrestleman · Nov 26, 2014

Nimby said:
Nothing wrong with liking inferior kart racers. I mean it is like, your opinion, man.

The perceived quality of the game one way or the other wasn't really what I was on about.

Nimby · Nov 26, 2014

wrestleman said:
The perceived quality of the game one way or the other wasn't really what I was on about.

Then what?

And I must say, my mistake lol. I read this when seeing your post:

Also, are you including Crash TAG Team Racing in "Bad"? Because I disagree.

wrestleman · Nov 26, 2014

Nimby said:
Then what?

"Objectively" was what I took issue with, since it's not a 'fact' the game is bad, I do know people who like it, but honestly the word has taken on some colloquial usage by people to just mean a consensus of opinion, so... it's whatever really :V

Nimby said:
And I must say, my mistake lol. I read this when seeing your post:

Well, I DO like the game... just not as a kart racer. I enjoyed the exploration platforming bits. Too bad you have to play the racing parts to get very far in them. I don't think it's terrible, anyways. Just definitely not great.

Creaking · Nov 26, 2014

Itchy//Tasty said:
Crash looks really good there, very 'classic'. This was before his tattoo redesign, right?

Yeah, but he made a lot of obnoxious gibberish noises.

sappyday · Nov 26, 2014

I just now realized how dead this series is.

wrestleman · Nov 26, 2014

It really SHOULDN'T be dead, the problem was too much meddling and too much experimentation instead of evolving the formula. There is a lot of interest in Crash, and the last few console games actually sold well. Even the redesigned games sold 1-2 million each counting all consoles across their lifetimes. It just needs to be handled the right way, and I think Activision is going to be looking for how it can do that, especially after last year's massive blow up in November.

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