Plus, there’s even more that we’re adding to the experience that hasn’t been shown yet, but we can’t wait to reveal soon!īy the time Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled ships, I will have been in the industry for 20 years. Playing split screen is a lot of fun, but racing online is awesome! In Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, you will have the opportunity to show your skills to anyone around the world and that’s a first for CTR. As die-hard fans of the game, we felt compelled to modernize the experience and infuse it with features that are expected of any great kart racing game. The game is called ‘Nitro-Fueled’ for a reason. Fans will see this attention to detail shine through in every part of the game from the camera work, to the characters’ quirky animations, to the lush environments you’re racing in. We established very early on that we wanted CTR Nitro-Fueled to be brimming with personality both from an environmental and character stand point. As much as CTR is about racing, it is first and foremost about character. The technology leap of the past 19 years allows us to push the graphical fidelity to a whole new level. Whatever improvements or bells and whistles we were going to add, we needed to be authentic to the inspiration of the original experience.
Our first design pillar in approaching this game was strikingly obvious: Authenticity. We know how dear the original Crash Team Racing is to so many people, so we’re spending a tremendous amount of time making sure it’s the same great racing experience that fans remember with a level of polish that could only be achieved by today’s standards. Like myself, we have huge fans of the franchise on the development team.
No turning back now! We’re going full throttle towards June 21st and we’re so excited to show you what we have in store!
Throughout the discussions, I remember telling myself: ‘’Please, please, oh please, let this project become real.’’ And here we are! The game we were so eager to reveal to the world has been announced. That tingling feeling of joy and excitement spreading through your whole body. And then I blurted out: ‘’You’re kidding, right?’’ I felt a sudden rush of adrenaline. Our studio gets the proposition, ‘’How would you guys feel about remastering CTR?’’. It was nothing short of my favorite game! You’re Kidding, Right?įast forward many years. The amount of time I spent playing that game! The countless hours I spent competing against my girlfriend at the time who had also started in the game industry. Its open adventure mode is a joy to explore its weapons are fun and unique and all the tracks included are.
I was a huge fan of the Crash Bandicoot series at the time, so you can imagine my excitement when I heard a brand-new kart racing game starring Crash was coming out! I remember how smart I thought it was to introduce an adventure mode in a racing game. Successfully transporting the loveable characters of the Crash Bandicoot franchise to another genre, in the process Naughty Dog managed to craft some of the most enjoyable kart racing mechanics in existence with Crash Team Racing. I got my first job in the game industry in 1999 which is right around the time Crash Team Racing originally launched.