One of the main trump cards of the Sony press conference will be Naughty Dog. Of course, a new trailer or gameplay of the fourth uncharted is awaiting us. However, there is a chance that we will be presented with another new project from the studio. Perhaps it will be JAK and DEXTER, or maybe it is The Last of US 2, or maybe this is the new Crash Bandicoot? Well, okay, let’s not guess t.to E3 will begin very soon. In the meantime, I suggest you read the second part of the history of the Crash Bandicoot series.
This time I will tell you about the second part of the Crash called Cortex Strikes Back and Warped. Sit down more conveniently, we start.
Cortex Strikes Back
Immediately after the success of the first part of the Naughty Dog, without hesitation, she continued to develop the second part. The production of the game began in October. The creators understood that when the game was seized, the Game Oriented Object Lisp engine on which the first part was created outdated. Therefore, Andy Gavin (this is the founder of the studio, if anyone forgot) began to work on Game Oriented Object Lisp 2. The soundtrack for the game was written by Mutato Muzika, and Universal Sound Studios was engaged in sound. Dan Ares, chief designer GEX: Enter the Gekko, who optimized the design of several levels, joined the team. The game was presented to E3 1997. The public really liked the game and the game began to wait even more. Already in August of the same year, the game officially switched to the stage of alpha.
After the release, the game received many positive reviews. Critics claimed that the game surpasses its predecessor in almost everything. They noted the diversity of levels, good graphics, colorfulness, impeccable animation, music, as well as the elaborate world and characters of the game. But without minuses could not do. The IGN team called some missions monotonous, and the battles with bosses are too easy.
The game was sold by a circulation of 5.17 around the world (in the USA – 3.78 million and 1.3 in Japan). This makes the game the fifth in a row the best -selling game. By the way, in Japan the game is called Crash Bandicoot 2: Countrattack of Cortex. The game itself went to Halloween holidays.
As in the first part of the game, they take place on the Austrian Islands. The main character appears again Crash Bandikut. After the defeat of Crash, Cortex decides to try to capture the world again. Cortex falls from his broken glider to the mine. There he finds a crystal and conceived a new insidious plan to capture the world.
One year passes from this moment. Cortex created a space station, and also started a new assistant – Doctor N. Gina who is half a person, half a cyborg (recalling two -faced). N. Jin informs Cortex that in addition to one crystal, there are 25 more those that are scattered across the planet. In order to implement his plan, Cortex abducts Crash, deceiving him, saying that this is necessary to save the earth. Since our bandicate does not stand out in a great mind, he believes Cortex and is happy to decide to help him.
During the search for crystals, our hero will communicate with the hologram of his sister Coco. She suspects something amiss and does not believe Cortex. Coco decides to hack a cortex computer. Coco finds out that Cortex has not changed and still wants to own the world. Crash on the way meets the hologram of Nitrus Brio, who is tuned against cortex this time. He reports that if he wants to save the world, then he must collect precious stones. Crash does not obey Brio and continues to search for crystals. Nitrus Brio will try to stop the hero, acting as a villain. He will find at Crash Ripper Ru, familiar to us in the first part. We will talk about Ripper with you, but we continue. After the victory over the Ripper, a new villain will try to interfere with us, or rather the villains – the brothers Komodo. These are creatures created by nitrus. Then we will meet with Tiger Tini at the space station.
After defeating Tini, Coco still manages to convince Crash that Cortex is not really going to save the planet. With the help of the power of crystals, Cortex wants to create a weapon called Cortex Vortex. This weapon will be able to turn all creatures into cortex slaves. Crash decides to prevent her cortex, collecting precious stones. With the help of stones, Nitrus Brio destroys the space station. This ends the game.
Now is the time to talk about characters Games.
There is no point in telling about Crash, since I have already done this in the first part.
Coco – Sister Crash. She leads as a typical teenager. Does not want to do useful things like cleaning, but wants to do what he wants herself. Despite this, she is very responsible and is not afraid of anything. It has blond hair tied in a ponytail and with an attached flower, wears a white sweater in a light blue overalls without one strap, shod in pink boots.
I also made a mistake, did not tell more about the cortex. What, you have to fix it.
Cortex – Classic villain and psychopath. Other scientists, colleagues laughed at the ideas of the cortex. Cortex sometimes is confident, and sometimes very excited and uncertain. The main minus of the cortex, he does not learn from his mistakes. He cannot hold in his hands, as well as communicate with people and other creatures.
Doctor n. Gin – more calm than his ally, cortex. He is in no hurry and carefully considers his plans. Jin himself is a feminine, which turns out to be Crash Mind Over Mutant, but more on this later. Half of his face is trampled. The rocket is driven into the right side of the head, which is the result of an accident. According to rumors, Jin is a European. As soon as Gene becomes furious, because of which he begins a severe headache.
Ripper ru – Ripper himself became a doctor, wrote a book and built a library, so he prefers to be called Dr. Ru (a reference to the alternative ending of the first part).
Brothers Komodo – One brother’s name is Joe, and the other. Joe is much smarter than his brother Mo and thinks through the tactics of battle. MO does not think at all and stupidly goes into battle.
Tiger Tini – A rather smart character. He is devoted to his master, Cortex, fulfilling all his orders. He knows how to talk, but speaks from the 3rd person. At least in two instructions to the game it is said that the Tiger Tiger is the first attempt by the cortex in the area of the mutation. However, the Naughty Dog at one time confirmed that this Ripper Ru was the first mutated doctor of the doctor, while the secretary was actually created by Nitrus in order to destroy Crash. It is assumed that before the "second birth" of Tseni was the Tasmanian tiger.
Polar – Bear. First appears in the second warp-rume. If you jump on it several times, then we will get several additional missions.
AKU-AKU – He helps the player again, https://piratespinscasino.net/mobile-app/ but is not one of the significant characters. In the Japanese version, he again helps the player with his advice on the game.
Secrets of the game
In the second Warp Rum, if you jump on Polar 10 times, you will be given ten additional lives. This trick works only once a game.
Stand on the platform in the center of the warp Rum and, holding the triangle, click up.
Also, the bug was not corrected when the player can have more than 99 lives. Perhaps I will write about him again. To do this, you need to accumulate 99 lives, get a hundredth, and at the moment when a new life “flies” to the counter, you need to leave the level. Then we go to any level and rejoice at the beautiful figure 100 in lives. Important: if you get another life, then the counter will return to 99.
What was cut out and t.p
There was a slightly different room with portals. Instead of appearing with the help of the proximity of the bottleneck, the head of the cortex “peers” literally from the center of the room and at a right angle. The center itself looked rather strange: there is not a single sign of a platform in it that raises a bandit upstairs. The design of the room itself also looks different, including deforestation in the walls above the portals made for the placement of the obtained crystals and precious stones.
Several levels were also removed. There was another snow level. Perhaps he was converted for the level of Slow Go or just removed. There was a remote level in the sewage.
Some more things were changed. These things can be seen on the trailer for a demo version that was presented at E3 1997.
This video was found in the old official PlayStation magazine with a special demo. For example, they used the old game logo, font and icons from the first Crash Bandicoot, alternative paths, as well as a remote level in the sewage.
There is also one more freaky Official trailer.
Here, in general, Crash talks, and there are also several buns which are not in the final version of the game. Here without comments.
Now we go smoothly to Warped.
As we all know, Naughty Dog had a contract for another game with Universal. After the release of the second Crash, the studio began in January to develop 3 parts of the game.
Universal gave the studio ten months to develop the game. Andy Gavin, Stefan White and Greg Omi began the development of 3 engines for the game. 2 of the 3 engine was needed in order to create a world in 3D. The third engine for levels with motorcycles. The soundtrack wrote again Mutato Muzika. The first gameplay was shown on Sony’s Electronic Entertainment Expo.
The game was released in October 1998 to North America, in November in Europe, and in Japan on December 17. Also in the final version of the game was the demo version of Spyro The Dragon.
The plot of the game
Actions unfold immediately after the events of the second part. The cortex space station falls to the ground and arouses the evil spirit of the decree. He was a Cortex mentor and now gives the doctor the last chance. This time will help the cortex, a scientist, obsessed with time. To enslave the world, they must get precious crystals that are scattered on the ground. Crash and Coco decide to stop scientists traveling around the world, thereby preventing them from getting crystals.
On the way, we will be able to stay in the Middle Ages, look at the cub of a tyrannosaurus, on which we can ride. We can visit Egypt. We will also be able to visit the future. In futuristic New York. We will visit the First World War, in the heaven of Europe, Atlantis, in China. The final battle will happen to the cortex in the time machine itself.
The time machine explodes and transfers to the temporary prison of UKU, Cortex and Neparius Tropy. Cortex and paths turn into babies. Crash and Coco still manage to escape.
Characters
Decree – Again a typical villain. Considers himself the smartest and best. Indicates his brother AKU AKU (the same mask). In his opinion, he is weak.
Doctor n. Trops – Familiar instructor uki. His character reflects his name ("nefarious" with English. "Bad, dishonest").
Fake Crash – By his name, everything is clear here. This is Crash’s clone, but more angry. It is not known exactly how he was born.
Purah – A little tigerok found by Coco on a still unfinished Great Chinese wall.
Dingodail – Boss of the game. A mutant created by Cortex. Half a dog, half a crocodile. Speaks with the Austrian accent. By the first appearance of Crash, you can understand that it is polite.
During the game, we will be able to manage not only Crash, but also Coco. The game begins in the time machine, which is the central zone of all levels. This zone is divided into five rooms. Only the first room is originally available. Each room has five buttons that open portals in various levels.
The game was again received positively. They noted the originality of the gameplay and the plot, excellent graphics and sound. The game was sold in a circulation of 5.7 million copies. This sets the game for 10th place among the best -selling games on the PlayStation One.
Further fate of Naughty Dog
The studio refused to extend the contract. According to rumors, they were kicked out of their own office. Sony later wanted to buy a Naughty Dog. The studio still agreed and became a subsidiary of Sony Computer Enternataim. SCI was able to redeem the rights to Crash and invited the dogs to start the next part of the game.
Crash Team Racing
CTR release took place on September 30, 1999 in North America; In Europe and Australia in the same year, but a little later. The game was reprinted for Sony Greatest Hits in 2000 and for Platinum Range January 21, 2001. Later CTR added to the PlayStation Store. In Europe, this happened before the rest of the countries – October 18, 2007, after which in Japan – June 11, 2008 and North America – August 10, 2010. This is the fourth game of the Crash Bandicoot series, as well as the first in the racing genre and the last Naughty Dog created by Naughty. This is not the main game of the series.
The game began to be developed in parallel with the development of Crash Bandicoot 2. Already during the development of 3 parts, a engine was developed for CTR. In August 1999, CTR switched to the alpha stage and already in September, to beta.
Crash and his friends are preparing to take part in the racing championship. Unfortunately, an alien Nitros Oxide learns about this and flies to the ground for competition. He called himself the fastest racer in the entire galaxy, he, traveling through various solar systems, is looking for strong opponents to check their skills. Oxide calls its test "Survival of the Fastest" (Russian. "Survival of the fastest"). He tells earthlings that he will compete in the arrival of one on one with their fastest racer. If the racer wins from the ground, then the oxide will leave this planet, but if he loses, then the planet will be turned into a huge space parking lot, and all its inhabitants will become nitrox slaves. In order to fight an oxide, it is necessary to confirm your skill by collecting all trophies and bosses. When one of the characters finally fulfills the task, it becomes available to him the last and, at the same time, the most important test is a race with a nitros oxide, on the stake of which there is earth. And yet, after the victory over the alien, he does not fly away anywhere, saying that he will fight with the really fastest racer who is able to collect all the relics. When the player comes to all CTR icons, precious stones and, of course, relics, he is allowed to fight the second and the last time with an oxide is already the last time. The defeated alien leaves the earth, heading home, to the planet Gazmoxia.
This is a typical racing game like Need for Speed, but with a more simplified physics of machines.
There are two certain types of boxes in the game, not counting TNT and NITRO. The first, with a question sign, contains reinforcements or weapons, which, when taken, appear in the center in the upper part of the screen. The second type – fruit boxes, contain vamps that increase the map speed and enhance the player’s weapon. After ten collected vamps, an increase is given. There is also a sliding system in the game.
The game was met by critics very positively. The only minus was the meager soundtrack.
That’s all. This is, so to speak, work on the mistakes of the first part of my article.
Well. Drake was with you and you read the second part of the history of the Crash Bandicoot series.
Good luck and so far!