Crash: Mind Over Mutant

Crash: Mind Over Mutant is the sequel to Crash of the Titans and the seventh Crash Bandicoot series game. The game uses many of the same mechanics as its predecessor with a few changes. Rather than having…

60 7 October 2008

Platform Action Comedy

Crash: Mind Over Mutant is a platform developed by Radical Entertainment, released 7 October 2008 on PlayStation Portable, Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2. The main story takes about 12.5 hrs to finish.

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What Crash: Mind Over Mutant is

Crash: Mind Over Mutant is a platform game developed by Radical Entertainment and released in 2008. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation Portable, Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2. It runs on Titanium.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game's story centers on the arrival of a popular technological device that puts its users under the control of the device's creators and antagonists Dr. Neo Cortex and Dr. Nitrus Brio. Crash and his magical mask friend Aku Aku are the only ones unaffected by the device, and must free their friends from its control and put an end to Dr. Cortex's plot.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Crash Bandicoot series

Crash: Mind Over Mutant is the 52nd of 72 entries we hold in the Crash Bandicoot series. The next entry was Crash: Mind Over Mutant in 2008. Its critic score of 60 is 8 points below the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time at 86.

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How it was received

Crash: Mind Over Mutant holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 59, across 69 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 12.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 27 hrs, roughly 2.2 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Crash: Mind Over Mutant launched on 7 October 2008, within three weeks of Dead Space (2008), Fallout 3, Dead Space and The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dead Space (2008), Fallout 3, Dead Space, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut.

Cheats and codes

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