Keeping track of finishing positions, best/worst maps, favourite characters, weapon accuracy and such is something we’d like to see in future, please. Therefore, it’s a bit naff to find that the game isn’t logging any race stats. However, we can see most Nitro-Fueled fans glueing themselves to the game’s online multiplayer. Online career statsįor a kart racer, even back in the day CTR gave players plenty of bang for their buck, it’s story mode littered with tons of bonus challenges. A minor gripe, though frustrating all the same. Instead you have to drop back out to the time trials menu and select a ghost these. Tropy or Nitros Oxide you need to record a worthy record time before the game will even let you try, but when you reach this milestone you can’t simply select the ghost you want to race against and reset the track. This is a fairly minor quality of life issue. Karts can also be modified with bodies, wheels, and stickers, but there’s currently no way of saving or bookmarking your favourite combos. Each one has a selection of colour types and at least one cool alternative skin. If there’s one thing we love about this remake, it’s the suite of options now available to change the look of your favourite Crash characters.
In truth, you can easily learn everything there is to CTR without any hand-holding, but having the option would be great for casual players and complete newcomers.
While it’s easy to wrap your head around the basic controls and weapon types, important elements such as powersliding, collecting wumpa fruit, and shortcuts are all resigned to loading screen tips or lines of dialogue from the game’s adventure mode. Better tutorialsĮasily overlooked by dyed in the fur Crash Team Racing fans, this remake doesn’t do a particularly great job of showing you the ropes. Ideally, we’d love away of picking or tweaking individual karts to get a different balance of speed, acceleration, and turning stats, letting us race as whoever we want. As outlined in our guide on the game’s fastest racers, this means that most of the CTR roster tends to go unused, at least in competitive multiplayer. Right now, the current Crash Team meta (a phrase I never imagined myself typing) favours the larger characters like Tiny and N.