Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled: 10 Racers Who MUST Be Unlockable In A Grand Prix
Because it ain’t a party until Rilla Roo walks in.
The Grand Prix is a new game mode for a Crash racing game, launching on 3 July when Tawna and the Trophy Girls will become unlockable for the first time. Following this, we’re getting a time travel themed one with Baby T, Baby Crash and Baby Coco all featuring.
After that, it’s the big one: Spyro. We don’t know if Spyro will be bringing any friends yet (or how many), so we’ll just have to wait and see.
After that though, the mode looks set to stick around. The original roster of 26 could easily double by the end of the game’s run, especially if we get tweaked versions of existing characters (like Babies Crash & Coco). If that happens, there are a lot of characters vying for selection.
There were a few racers who might have made the cut back in ‘99, and with the extra characters being major players in Nitro Kart or Tag Team Racing, there’s still a fair few waiting. Once you delve into Crash’s history, you see a fair few characters who are just busting at their chance to shine.
Surely the Grand Prix must give it to them.
10. Rilla Roo
Rilla Roo has only been in one Crash game ever, the party spin off game Crash Bash. For all that game became a bit of a cult title amongst the fanbase, it certainly didn’t hit the heights of the original trilogy or Crash Team Racing, and Rilla Roo was promptly forgotten.
However, once word spread that we weren’t just getting the Crash Team Racing characters in Nitro Fueled but some extra ones too, fans started to put Rilla Roo’s name forward. In the end, the new characters in the base game were centred around Crash’s other racing titles, Nitro Kart and Tag Team Racing, and Rilla Roo missed out.
Still, there’s a considerable number of fans who want to see him in there.
The problem is that he’s a bit like the calls for Waluigi in Smash. There are some fans who would genuinely love it to see him in there, and others who just going along with it for the meme of it all.
Rilla Roo is ultimately a bit of a gag character, but Crash Team Racing never takes itself too seriously and feels like a celebration of the whole series; Rilla Roo is a small part of that celebration, but feels worthy of a Grand Prix.