Crash Nitro Kart

Crash Bandicoot returns to the karting scene with a host of other characters from the adventure series, and this time they have both Neo Cortex and Emperor Velo to worry about. Velo has taken the crew to a…

77 11 November 2003

Racing Action Science fiction

Crash Nitro Kart is a racing developed by Vicarious Visions, released 11 November 2003 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The main story takes about 6 hrs to finish.

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What Crash Nitro Kart is

Crash Nitro Kart is a racing game developed by Vicarious Visions and released in 2003. It was published by Konami. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Crash Nitro Kart is a 2003 kart racing game developed by Vicarious Visions and published by Universal Interactive for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube. It is the second racing game in the Crash Bandicoot series after Crash Team Racing and the first game in the series to feature full motion videos. The game's plot centers on the abduction of Crash Bandicoot, along with other characters in the series, by the ruthless dictator Emperor Velo XXVII, who threatens to destroy the Earth if they refuse to race in his gigantic coliseum for the entertainment of his subjects.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. 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 Nitro Kart is the 17th of 72 entries we hold in the Crash Bandicoot series. It arrived 10 months after Crash Bandicoot. The next entry was Crash Nitro Kart in 2003. Its critic score of 77 is 9 points above 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 Nitro Kart holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 73, across 75 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 6 hrs.

What it launched against

Crash Nitro Kart launched on 11 November 2003, within three weeks of Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.

Cheats and codes

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