Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled - 10 Best Tracks
Which ones are the best from one of the best kart racers ever?
Crash Team Racing is back with a bang, blowing all the other kart racers out of the water. While Mario Kart still provides stiff competition after 8 delivered the best entry in the series, if future Crash Racing games can keep this standard up, they might just dethrone the plucky Italian plumber for good.
As well as boasting a host of great characters and that wonderful drift boost mechanic, Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled has some of the best tracks around. As the title suggests, the game combines the original Crash Team Racing with Nitro Kart, and Tag Team Racing additions are in the works too.
It’s clear some Nitro Kart tracks were riffs on the original CTR, although some still managed to improve upon the great arenas that came before. Nitro Fueled gives them all a new lick of paint and brings them all up to speed with modern graphics.
Separating the best of the best comes down to popularity amongst the online community, difficulty, inventiveness, variety of hazards and just sheer speed. CTR has always been a fast-paced racer, but in some cases, these tracks can be absolute lightning.
10. Jungle Boogie
Get down, get down...
Jungle Boogie hasn’t been picking up all that much popularity with players online, but then a lot of nostalgia is drawing players to the fairly simple Crash Cove and Roo’s Tubes, so the multiplayer vote isn’t necessarily the best indicator of quality overall.
Though the online community does tend to get the picks ‘right’ most of the time, some of the better tracks which didn’t come from the original Crash Team Racing are sometimes over overlooked; Jungle Boogie is one such track.
It features a lot of different levels to its turns, as racers have to plan their ramps and jumps in order to get the best line through bends. In a game so fast paced, the larger focus than usual on strategy makes this a good place to test a player’s mettle.
Though the game has done a jungle theme before, this track is by far the most thick with foliage, and makes you feel like you’re actually in the jungle, rather than merely near one as in other levels. It’s vibrant, challenging and badly under appreciated.
Next time you’re online, put your little tick next to this instead of Roo’s Tubes. You might just find a new favourite.