Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex

Video Game
2001
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Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (2001)

Action Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Sci-Fi

Crash Bandicoot must gather ancient crystals to stop the destructive nature of a group of renegade masks known as the Elementals.Crash Bandicoot must gather ancient crystals to stop the destructive nature of a group of renegade masks known as the Elementals.Crash Bandicoot must gather ancient crystals to stop the destructive nature of a group of renegade masks known as the Elementals.

Directors
- Jon Burton
- Soichiro Kitai
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7.6/10

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Directors
- Jon Burton
- Soichiro Kitai
Stars

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Awards
- 1 nomination

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Clancy Brown

Dr. Neo Cortex
(voice)
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Mel Winkler

Aku Aku
(voice)

Debi Derryberry

Coco Bandicoot
(voice)

Kevin Michael Richardson

Crunch Bandicoot
(voice)
(as Kevin Michael Richards)

Tom Wilson

Rok-Ko - The Earth Elemental
(voice)

R. Lee Ermey

Wa-Wa - The Water Elemental
(voice)
(as R. Lee Ermy)

Mark Hamill

Py-Ro - The Fire Elemental
(voice)

Jess Harnell

Corey Burton

Dr. N. Gin
(voice)
(as Cory Burton)
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Kappei Yamaguchi

Crash
(voice)
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Ema Kogure

Coco
(voice)

Ken'ichi Ogata

Aku Aku
(voice)
(as Kenichi Ogata)

Shôzô Îzuka

Cortex
(voice)
(as Shozo Iizuka)

Ryûzaburô Ôtomo

Uka Uka
(voice)
(as Ryuzaburo Otomo)

Kazuhiro Nakata

N. Gin
(voice)

Masaru Ikeda

N. Tropy
(voice)
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Toshiaki Kuwahara

Chinomajin
(voice)

Toshitaka Shimizu

Honounomajin
(voice)

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Trivia
This is the first Crash Bandicoot game to be released on other consoles that are not just Playstation.

Quotes
[first lines]
The Great Uka Uka: Imbeciles! FOOLS! NINCOMPOOPS! Can't you idiots do ANYTHING right? According to this, your track record for spreading evil is PATHETIC!
Dr. Neo Cortex: Uka Uka, it's not our fault. That wretched bandicoot is to blame!
[a crash hologram appears]
Tiny the Tiger: Grrr...
[he swipes at the hologram]
The Great Uka Uka: I will not let anthing stand in the way of evil... ESPECIALLY not a brainless orange marsupial!Crash must be eliminated!
N. Gin: Err... Uka Uka? Need I remind you that Crash always finds a way to defeat us? Maybe he's just too good for us.
The Great Uka Uka: Enough excuses! You five idiots need to come up with one good plan... or else!
Dr. Neo Cortex: How do I get into these situations?
Dr. Nefarious Tropy: There must be something we can come up with.
[to Cortex]
Dr. Nefarious Tropy: Say Doctor, haven't you been tinkering with some new secret weapon in your laboratory?
Dr. Neo Cortex: I... don't know what you're talking about N Tropy.
N. Gin: Dr Cortex! I think he's referring to the super secret weapon you've been labouring over day and night since the last time Crash defeated you.
The Great Uka Uka: ENOUGH BICKERING! DO WE HAVE A PLAN?
Dr. Neo Cortex: Well, in my scientific endeavours, I have been able to create a genetically advanced super weapon of unbelievable strength. But the power source is the final missing crucial element.
The Great Uka Uka: Hmm... element... Element. Yes! The Elementals!
Dr. Neo Cortex: Right, the Elementals, that's it! If we unlease their destructive force, it could create enough energy to bring my super creation to life. We'd then have a weapon capable of crushing mountains, destroying entire cities...
The Great Uka Uka: And wiping Crash Bandicoot off the face of the Earth forever!
Dr. Neo Cortex: Get ready to face my wrath, Crash Bandicoot!

Connections
Featured in Troldspejlet: Troldspejlet Special: Halloween (2001)

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Looks and sounds good, I suppose.

In the days of the original Playstation, Crash Bandicoot was an unofficial mascot for the machine. Indeed, the three 2D/3D platform games he was in were of the highest quality. The transition to the Playstation 2 was successful, but not instantly so, as this game demonstrates.

Wrath of Cortex reminds me of a lot of big budget follow-ups, such as the new Star Wars films, in that it's great to look at and listen to, but it has very little else to recommend it. The story concerns Cortex creating a new evil bandicoot and using the four elemental masks to power it. This means you must gather all the crystals to stop him, facing the villainous bandicoot Crunch and one of the masks every five levels. The graphics and music in this game are what make it really worth playing, especially as Coco is now playable in platform levels for the first time. Unfortunately, the collision detection is erratic, the camera angles often make simple jumps a total chore and there's nothing much here that hasn't been done before. It's more like 'The Best of Crash' than a new game in its own right. Though Cortex's vocals are as witty as ever, the new villains are uninteresting. The masks in particular lack the individual characters of the bosses in 'Warped' and just seem like loud oafs. The long between-level loading screens are also a pain. You seem to spend half your time watching Crash floating in a giant bottle of Tizer.

To sum up, if you'e looking for a PS2 follow-up to the PS1 Crash plat-formers then you'd be better off with the far superior 'Twinsanity'.