Crash Bandicoot: Mind over Mutant Comments by Dan Pearson

Crap Bandicoot

Trash Bandicoot

loved the first few, ddint get past demo's of recent ones. it needs to go back to its roots.

Slit Your Wrists Bandicoot

Bugger.
I enjoyed the early Crash.
Sonic and Crash.
Two washed up has beens, sitting in the retirement home.

Crash Bandicoot has never been the same since the original Playstation days. It also doesn't help that Naughty Dog doesn't develop them anymore. Shame because the original games were superb.

Crash was crap on the PS1, nevermind now.

Oh how much he's crashed over the years. :(

I'm with Retroid on this one.

@Retroid - Aye, I thought it was a bit crap back then n'all.

I really liked Crash 2 & 3, I still do, but all these new ones have been awful, or average at best.

CraSHIT Bandicoot

Crash is up there with Spyro when it comes to stuff like this; both were great series' on their maternal console but the games that followed in the last gen and this gen are just shadows and cash-ins. Neither will be any good unless they go back into the hands of the original devs and back to their roots.

You guys think the Crash Bandicoot games are crap to play?? Count yourselves lucky, I had to WORK on one of the fuckers :(

Crash Bandiclololt

crash and burned-icoot

Crash Bandican't.

"Brand over enjoyment."

He he, Tel likes.

I hope this sells badly and ActiBlizz follow their recent form of killing the franchise off. As others have said, Crash & Spyro have been shit ever since development was handed over at the close of the PS1 era.

Crash BandiMoorhen

Not even worthy of two pages. Or a meaningful comment.

Glad to see EG roughly sticking to the "5 = average" review ethic. I'm just puzzled why anybody is making new Crash Bandicoot games at all, I guess they must be selling reasonably well, but to whom? It seems like the only people who would know who he is at all are people roughly my age as I played the original (which was a bit of a classic) when I was a kid, but Crash hasn't been even vaguely relevant in so long, who's buying these games?

I think it's a shame - Free Radiccal are genuinely great developers at times, and Crash does have the potential to be more of a high-profile character, it seems like the effort just isn't being made any more. Mario Galaxy has shown us that platformers are having to come up with some really serious innnovations, both technological and structural, in order to remain a notable genre.

It's not Free Radical, it's Radical entertainment. I'm not sure what that means, but Timesplitter 2 was awesome and the last Crash wasn't. If Free Radical had wasted precious time on this, I'd have hunted them down.

@evilfoxhound
"No wonder developers only make FPS's now. Everything else gets shitty scores."

Yeah, like Fable II did. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that this is a crap game.

NeverHadBeen Bandicoot

next year at Celebrity Survivor

@Anasui
"NeverHadBeen Bandicoot"

Has Beenicoot

you conceding too much :D

Cack Blandicoot

But with so many better alternatives on offer, it's not an experience we'd recommend.

For the 360? Which?

@Anasui
"you conceding too much :D"

Yes, I suppose I am. :)

I love picking these up for a tenner a few months after release. Me and the young 'un really enjoy the Bandicoot games, and there's plenty of fun to be had on that level if you can switch off your internal gaming snob setting. Hell, you'll probably get more from this than the latest Sonic. But I can't imagine ever paying full price for one. Mind Over Mutant - see you in June sometime in the bargain bin. I look forward to it!

I want HD remakes of crash 1,2,3 and CTR. After that, let it die.

Crash 1, 2 and 3 were all superb platformers, CTR was more fun than Mario Kart (stuck my neck out a bit, there) and even Crash Bash was good fun as a party game. I haven't even bothered to demo any of the games after that, I find the cheesines of the name indirectly proportional to the quality.

No

Who's making this shit?

A brand new Crash team racer on PSN/XBLM. Now that's something I'd buy. (if it wasn't shit) I already bought the PS version on PSN, cracking game.

I mean even the kidz aren't gonna buy this, are they?

@JYM60

Are you sure you'd want another Kart racer? I'm in the 'better than Mario Kart' camp when it comes to CTR but the follow ups (Nitro Kart, Tag-team Racing) were utter rubbish so a new version would probably be just as dire.

@DFawkes

Thank God you cleared this up; I've recently got into Timesplitters Future Perfect (after putting it off for so long and sticking with TS2) and it's bloody amazing. So glad, it wasn't Free Radical who made this crap Crash game.

Yeah, you're probably right. Some lame ass devs would work on it and it would end up crap.

A good one with online play and stuff would be nice, but I guess that would never happen. It'd just end up garbage for kids.

The Wii version is £17.61 (odd price) at Gameplay, so for those of us who still like Bandicoot style platform gaming it's a bit more reasonably priced. I might pick it up before Christmas. I still think it looks better than the new Sonic, and I had fun with Twinsanity and Titans so it's well worth it for me.

I guess you can cross me off the Eurogamer "Hardcore Gamers" list then. :D