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Crash of the Titans | 
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| From: Sierra
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $13.50
You Save: $6.49 (32%)
New (27) Used (15) from $11.82
Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 2173
Platform: Nintendo Wii
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 72651
Model: 72651
UPC: 020626726511
EAN: 0020626726511
ASIN: B000TGB4R8
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Hijack and battle titanic monsters! Don't beat 'em -- Jack 'em! Control, play and BATTLE as 15 different outrageous and totally unique enemies, including the likes of Scorporilla, Ratcicle and Shellephant -- multiple playable weapons! | | • | Using the monsters' special abilities, breathe fire and strike with earth-shaking attacks. Use one enemy as a weapon to blow away the others. | | • | Intense New Combat Moves for Crash! For the first time ever Crash now has a powerful acrobatic fighting system: punches and flying kicks, multiple attacks and special counter moves. Power up skills to unlock new attacks and blazing combos! | | • | Chaotic Co-op Action! It's twice the Crash! At any point in the game get your buddy to join in and play as Carbon-Crash, and work together to unleash total chaos! | | • | Crash can even jack Carbon-Crash (or vice versa) for some hysterical Crash/jacked-Crash mayhem!!! |
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Product Description
Crash Bandicoot is back in his long-awaited latest adventure, now on the Nintendo Wii! His arch-nemesis Neo Cortex is out for destruction yet again, this time having gotten his hands on a mysterious substance that turns the ordinary creatures of Crash's islands into mutant minions! Fortunately, Crash is on the scene with a whole new skill set including the ability to hijack these same minions and use their powers to his advantage. Take on a whole new world of freaky enemies, challenging puzzles and innovative new tools and powerups as everyone's favorite orange cartoon marsupial!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
Fun game! May 20, 2008
I didn't know quite what to expect from this game, but my 12yr old daughter has always liked Crash since back in the PS1 days so I went ahead and purchased it. I have been pleasantly surprised by how much fun the game is. It is part adventure and part 'brawler' with the little twist that you get rewarded for hijacking the various larger foes in the game and using them to accomplish various tasks. The best part of it is the 2 player co-op mode that allows me to play together with my daughter. We both really enjoy playing this game together. I would imagine that it is also relatively fun to play in single player mode, but for me the best part is the co-op mode. Fun game. Highly recommended.
Sweet! May 12, 2008
This Game is Fun, but it's not entirely straight from the original Playstation games. It could use improvement, but there are certainly much worse games out there. I recommend this game if your just looking for a game to play that's fun, something to simply enjoy.
Comical and Fun, but is it really Crash's Style? (by Laura) March 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a fun game, but don't be fooled... It's pretty different from previous Crash Bandicoot games. Although I haven't played the game much, I know it well enough to give you the Bad, Neutral, and Good, in that order. Please don't just read the Bad, before making the decision on whether or not this game is good for you.
The Bad:
1. The potty humor. I mean, really, who decided potty humor was humor at all anyway?! That's just my opinion, I don't mean any offense to those who *yuck!* enjoy the type of humor like what is in this game... Still, there are many jokes better than this type that a larger audience could relate to. In a cutscene before the game starts, Crash burps and Coco congratulates him for it (whatever happened to teaching children good manners?). Then, if you press the action button near Crash's home on the first level, he'll go in and use the bathroom facillity... While you, of course, don't see anything, the sound of a toilet flushing for a bandicoot gives worse visuals than one should really bear. Also, you destroy Neo Cortex's "Spy Toilets" to get rewards. SPY TOILETS?! I'm only glad they didn't show us how Cortex designed this invention... This is only at the beginning of the game. Who knows what other nasty jokes made it in here?
2. Dull plot. Let's face it, it's been done a thousand times in videogame history: _____ gets kidnapped, and _____ must rescue him/her. Fill the first blank with Coco and Aku Aku, and the second blank with Crash and you have your main plot. This is unoriginal and lame. The only thing keeping me going storywise is that I'm curious to see if there's any more information about how Crash came to be (watch the stuff that shows when you first access the game).
The Neutral:
1. Crash's attacks. While Crash's "spin" made it in here, he starts out with a slap attack that, frankly, makes him look like a sissie. It's funny, but at the same time sad... New moves, like an Aku Aku guard, have been added; which gives this game an oddly unique feel. Whether this good or not I'll leave up to you; as you may or may not be disappointed that Crash has become a sissie. I don't really care, but I also must wonder; does an old bandicoot like this really deserve such downgrading?
2. The changes made to the appearance of the characters. This drives me crazy in Crash games: they can't ever leave a good character design alone! Coco looks alright, but incredibly different, and Crash hasn't changed much; but Aku Aku looks awful, like he's obese, and Crunch's head is too small. Again, I don't really care; but do they really deserve this?
3. The new lingo. Overlooking the potty humor, there's also kind of a sarcasticish humor in the speech as well. The comments by Aku Aku (particuarly on the Titan descriptions), and the comments by the villains, to me, are droll; they make the game more enjoyable for me, but is this kind of stuff really what young children should be learning?
The Good:
1. The backgrounds. They're really designed quite nicely. The forest levels were lush and realistically cartoonish (does that make sense?) and the temples looked ancient enough with their cracks. It's not the very best I've ever seen, but it's pretty decent.
2. Hijacking the Titanic monsters and riding them is pretty awesome. Each Titan has unique abilities that are fun to abuse. I believe the monster with the greatest physical strength is the Shellephant (it can take out many other monsters it's size with two blows!).
3. The music. Not bad music at all. It has kind of an old "Tribal" feel to it (it's easier to recognize than describe). It's kind of a different feel than the normal tunes we associate with Crash.
Conclusion:
That's all I have to say. Overall, if the changes are bearable, and if your child is very mature mannerism wise, then I don't have much I can say against purchasing it. Just becareful that it doesn't negatively effect the behavior of young children (potty humor is not okay!). Hopefully, the changes aren't different enough to upset hard core Crash fans.
They are a little young but... January 31, 2008
My boys are 4 and 6 years old. We had the Crash Bandicoot games on the Playstation 2 and when we got the wii for Christmas I decided to get my oldest this game for his birthday... It came and they were all excited that they were gonna create their own Bandicoot. This has disappointed them. Because that is not a feature that they have on this game. But they are four and six as I said and I have no idea why they thought this was in the game. My six year old says it is too hard for him to play the game, however, my four year old loves it and could play for hours given the chance. I really like that you can drop in and drop out as a second player. It has gotten us to episode 9 that way. My son plays, when he needs help I can drop in, when I have had enough I drop out. Also since my 6 year old does not have the patience to play he can drop in and out if our younger son is playing. They really like the characters too. I get a lot of talk about the spike guy and the rolling guy. Anyway, I like and my children like this game.
Great for those new to Crash. Still pretty good for fans of the old Crash December 29, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For those who are new to the series, this is a game you will likely enjoy. The graphics are solid and the controls very easy to learn.
With that said, the redesign of some of the characters and behaviors may be at least mildly irritating for longtime fans of the series (like me). Objectively, this is still a very good game and will provide hours of fun for children and adults. It's not perfect, but it's certainly better than average.
One noteworthy feature is the ability to select from three difficulty levels helps make the game more approachable and fun for gamers of various ages and levels of experience/skill. Also, the implementation of the cooperative play feature is a fun way for a second player to jump into and out of the game as desired.
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