One advantage of driving in a clashed kart is that it's a lot easier to fill up your boost meter, which is done by blowing everything from rival vehicles to random objects into smithereens. Note one of Crash's ancestors in the background, too. There's always the option to switch round and get behind the wheel again, but there's really no need - the other characters you team up with invariably do an intelligent job of steering round the course.

Then you can, if you wish, abandon driving duties to take control of a gun turret with 360 degree rotation.Ĭue vast amounts of fun as you pick off enemies on all sides, watching them explode in satisfyingly large balls of flame. This means that at any time during the race you can press triangle to merge your kart with one of your opponent's, creating a single vehicle. Clash team racingįor starters, there's now a car combat element to the game, thanks to a feature called 'clashing'. Developer Radical Entertainment (the latest in the long line of developers to tackle the Bandicoot franchise) has attempted to do something new with the genre here, blending several different gameplay styles together - not an easy task, but it has nearly pulled it off. That probably won't come as much of a surprise to you, but this might: CTTR is actually a very good game that throws a wide variety of challenges, decent graphics, a sense of humour and some nice finishing touches into the mix.ĭon't go expecting another Mario Kart clone in the vein of Crash Team Racing or Crash Nitro Kart, either. Having played the DS version via Wi-Fi Connect the other day, and now Crash Tag Team Racing, we can confirm that this is not something which is about to change.

Mario Kart has always been the king of kart racers.

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