Crash Bandicoot: Ranking Every Game From Worst To Best
9. Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex
When Naughty Dog had run out of the steam with the franchise they had created, they decided to move on to fresher products, and it wasn't long until the rights to the lucrative Bandicoot were auctioned off to another company.
After the total misfire that was Crash Bash unnerved a few fans, showing the first figments of decline, the reversion to a platformer gave the team some breathing space, but the fans weren't exactly holding their breath.
The unofficial Crash 4 - before the official Crash 4 existed - was an amalgamation of everything that contributed to the early trilogies success.
Sounds good, doesn't it?
Right?
Well, the emphasis is definitely on the word "sounds" in that sentence because the throughly jarring exeperience is an unadulterated mess, inexcusably wasting its stellar voice cast which included the likes of R.Lee Emery, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jess Harnell and even Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) himself.
This is all capped off with the overly-dominant persistence of the newly unveiled - and ridiculously uninspired - boss in Crunch Bandicoot. Essentially an even more mutated Crash who has an affinity for steroid pumping and acts more as a charisma vaccum whose best moments include: