Ultimately, the amount of fun Crash Twinsanity can potentially produce overweighs most of its faults and glitches.
PROS:
- Three different playable characters.
- 4 colourful and large environments,
- Some good ideas.
- Reasonably good graphics.
- Catchy music.
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CONS:
- Several annoying glitches.
- Has a game time of about 4 hours.
- At times, too difficult for its younger audience.
- You will suffer from backtracking if you want to beat the game 100%.
- Derivactive in more ways then just one.
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Gameplay 7 - The problem with Crash Twinsanity, is all the glitches and faults it suffers from, although the game does stand as an improvement upon 'the wrath of Cortex', but it seems that developers Travellers tales just doesn't have what it takes to live up to the first four games produced by developers Naughty dog.
However the gameplay is a lot of fun, but it's just simply nothing we haven't already seen in several other games that do it so much better, but the gameplay still is quite a lot of fun first time round if you aren't bothered by the games faults, but the fun suddenly stops just after you finish the game once and the game (depending on how experience you are) can be beaten in just a little bit longer than four hours, which makes the game somewhat disappointing.
Although, one of the very few parts of Crash Twinsanity that are superior to first four, is that it is the first game in the series to have a open-ended design and the first one where you have the ability to adjust the games camera veiwing perspective. Ultimately, the gameplays positives successfully manage to overcome most of the gameplays negatives.
Sound: 8 - Sound is probably one of the games best features, the sound effects are sturdy, the voice-acting isn't that far off excellent and the background music is just plain catchy. Although it sound effects are by no means perfect, but then again, what kind of sound effects are?
Plot: 7 - Plot is short, simple and somewhat fast-paced, the story is set three years after the events of 'Crash Bandicoor: The wrath of Cortex' when Cortex finally manages to free himself from the iceburg he was insealed within during the secret ending of WoC, he then goes out for revenge against Crash for what he did, which ends up with the two of them trapped inside a seemingly bottomless cavern and once they manage to get out by working together as a team, the evil twins arrive and tell them that they plan on destroying N'sanity island for what Cortex did to them while he was a student at Madam Amberly's academy of evil. Crash and Cortex must put a side their differences and work together and stop them, once and for all!
Graphics: 8 - The environments a large, relatively detailed and very colourful. The models for the characters are pretty good, Cortex looks better than he ever has looked in a Crash game before and afterwards. (Particularly afterwards when the new Crash developers 'Seirra' messed everything up) And it seems that developers Travellers tales tried very hard to make the characters look like how they were when Naughty dog was under control, without the graphics looking horrible by Xbox standards; and the result: Much better then what could of happened if they tried to hard.
Overall: 7.5/10
Crash Twinsanity is a good game, but unfortunately it still fails to live up to the original four games developed and produced by Naughty dog, unless you've already played tonnes of other platformer games with a similar style of gameplay to Twinsanity, you will probably feel very little want and/or desire to go back and play the same control scheme again. Another thing that is really irritating about this game is all the horrible glitches it holds, but luckily most of them are pretty minor, but there are some of them that I am surprised weren't spotted when the developers thoroughly tested the game to see if it works. (at least that's what I hoped they'd done) But ultimately, all of the fun Crash Twinsanity can (potentially) produce just manages to overweigh the amount faults it suffers from. So it should be able to satisfy newcomers, but people who had high expectations from the first four will more then likely feel unfulfilled.
Thank you for reading my honest review of: Crash Twinsanity.