DISTRIBUTED BY: Sierra Entertainment
DEVELOPED BY: Dimps
GENRE: Party
PLATFORM: Nintendo DS
YEAR OF RELEASE: 2006
Although Crash is based on Mario, "Crash Bash" and this are the only party games for our favorite orange marsupial. "Crash Boom Bang!" has a thing that nobody imagined: it was fully developed in Japan (WOW!). It is like "Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels" as you, Americans, Europeans (?), and Koopas call it. But "Boom Bang!" is one of the worst Crash games ever made. Check Point!
STORY - 7.5
The story is that classic
cliché of "A competition that is not a competition". An extremely
wealthy Tasmanian Devil named Viscount
passed years and years
looking for a relic - the Super Big Power Crystal - to finish the steps
of his grandfather. The special thing of this relic is that, if you touch
it, it will make all your wishes come true. In an attempt to find this
Super Big Power Crystal, Viscount has an idea: make the other people find
it for him. Then, he creates a competition named "The Cannonball Race",
and the winner takes $100,000,000.00 home. He sends the propaganda of the
"competition" to the Wumpa Islands, and Crash and his gang go for it.
GAMEPLAY - 5
The gameplay is identic
to the "Mario Party" series, having even that board thingy. We can say
that the game is a mix of "Mario Party"
with "WarioWare", because
the mini-games of it are, unlike in "Crash Bash", more varied, random,
and simpler. Also, Wumpa fruits are point
accumulators in here -
collect more to win. The instructions given of what to do in "Boom Bang!"are
extremely simple and don´t explain very
much, so you must do it
by yourself. Saving the game is also very hard: to do so, you must complete
a board, which can be very
frustrating. However, you
can play with most of the characters you know and love (or not): Crash
Bandicoot, Coco Bandicoot, Crunch
Bandicoot, Fake Crash (for
you to remember, he is a clone of Crash, but has big eyebrows, small pupils,
and gigantic teeth), Dr. Neo
Cortex, Pinstripe Potoroo
(the potoroo in a Mafia outfit), Pura (Coco´s pet, a tiger cub, that
in this game became an anthropomorphized animal like everybody else), and
Tawna (Crash's ex-girlfriend).
GRAPHICS - 6
Although the graphics were
made by a technique named "cel-shading", the characters stayed a little
ugly: as the game was developed in
Japan, they got the look
they had, have, and always are going to have in Japan, with the exception
of Crash; in the West, Crash´s model
was changed, and looks
heavily like the model used in "Crash Twinsanity".
MUSIC - 3
Only one word can describe
the music of "Boom Bang!": @#$%*%$$&*@!!! The music is quite mundane,
and sounds like it popped out
of a broken Atari 2600.
And I thought that Crash´s music should be good!
FUN FACTOR! - 3.5
As I said before, saving
the game is hard, the mini-games can be very repetitive, and it's got @#$%*%$$&*@
music. Is that funny? Not for me.
FINAL NOTE - 4.5
I´ll finish with
the words of every reviewer that had the bad luck of reviewing this game:
only buy it if you are a die-hard Crash fan.
This game received abysmal
rankings through all the world, its lowest note being a 2 from the site
IGN. So, listen to me and the reviewers
of IGN and only buy it
if you LOVE Crash to an extreme point.
BE PREPARED FOR MY NEXT
REVIEW:
Crash Bandicoot: The Huge
Adventure (Crash Bandicoot XS)
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