(PSX) Crash Bandicoot (100mb) RIP

[dw817]

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REVIEW:

Crash Bandicoot is a platform game developed by Naughty Dog for the PlayStation, featuring the character by the same name. The game was released in North America on August 31, in November in Europe and on December 6 in Japan. Development of the game started in 1994, with the title character being designed by Charles Zembillas and Joe Pearson, and was officially unveiled to the public in May of 1995 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

The game centers around Crash Bandicoot, a marsupial mutated by the psychopathic Doctor Neo Cortex and his right hand man Doctor Nitrus Brio, as he tries to stop his creators' plans for world domination, clean up any pollution they have caused and save his girlfriend Tawna, a female bandicoot also mutated by Doctor Cortex and Nitrus Brio.

GAMEPLAY:

The game has twenty-five normal levels, as well as two secret levels and six boss battles, the six bosses being the local tribe leader Papu Papu, the insane Ripper Roo, the muscle-bound Koala Kong, the gun-toting Pinstripe Potoroo, Doctor Nitrus Brio, and finally, Doctor Neo Cortex himself.

The player must make their way through a limited environment whilst defeating enemies, avoiding pits and breaking crates, each of which contain some kind of bonus. Breaking all of a level's crates while not losing a life will reward the player with a gem. The boss battles have the player avoiding the boss character's attacks, then attacking the boss when the boss is vulnerable.

Crash's only forms of attack are jumping and spinning. The majority of enemies can be defeated by using the jump attack, but enemies that cannot be defeated by the jump attack must be defeated by using the spinning move. This move can also be used to hit enemies into other enemies or crates.

Also, in some levels, Crash will ride a hog, which he has limited control over. In levels such as these, the player must avoid obstacles such as enemies while continuously going forward at fast speed on the hog. Also, numerous levels have the player being chased by a boulder, in which players must run towards the screen while jumping over gaps.

The player can collect masks hidden in crates. When protected by these floating masks, the player is protected from one enemy's attack or contact. Collecting three masks will give players temporary invulnerability from all minor dangers. Also available in numerous levels are tokens hidden inside crates. These tokens feature the likenesses of either Tawna, Doctor Nitrus Brio or Doctor Neo Cortex.

Once the player collects three matching tokens in one stage, the player is transported to a bonus round, where the player can collect additional fruit and items. The Tawna bonus rounds can be used to save any progress made before that point.

SETTING:

The game is set on a group of three Australian islands owned by Doctor Neo Cortex. The main settings for levels, particularly on the first two islands, are either forests, jungles or beaches. Some levels on the second island also take place in temples. The third island is more industrial, and its levels take place in power plants and a castle. A level's enemies depend on the level's setting.

The numerous levels set on the first and second islands would contain crabs and turtles as enemies. In contrast, enemies in levels set in the power plants on the third island are mostly mechanical robots, while those set in the castle contain the identical android Lab Assistants and monsterous experiments as the enemies.

CHARACTERS:

As the first game of the series, the game only features nine characters. The game's protagonist is Crash Bandicoot, a brave bandicoot mutated by Doctor Neo Cortex, trying to clean up the pollution the doctor has caused and stop him in his plans for world domination with the help of Aku Aku. Doctor Cortex, while trying to create the ultimate solider using the Evolvo Ray and the Cortex Vortex using Crash as one of his experiments, noticed that the experiment had gone wrong and chased him out of his castle.

He considers Crash a failure due to his average intelligence. Washing up on N. Sanity Island, he resolves to stop Cortex and save Tawna, another mutated female bandicoot. Aku Aku is the voodoo mask spirit of an old witch doctor. He watches over the three islands and aids Crash on his quest to defeat Dr. Cortex and clear up the toxic waste he has created.

Doctor Neo Cortex is a villainous mad scientist and the game's main antagonist. He has mutated the wildlife of the islands, turning them into anthropomorphic beasts, hoping to use them to form an army. Doctor Nitrus Brio is a deranged scientist and Doctor Cortex's right-hand man. The creator of the Evolvo-Ray, though with his lack of ambition he has let Doctor Cortex take the credit for its creation.

Naughty Dog created him as a foil to Doctor Cortex, with Brio being successful to Cortex's failure, logical to Cortex's emotional. Also, as well as Cortex and Brio, Papu Papu, the deranged Ripper Roo, the muscular Koala Kong and The Godfather inspired Pinstripe Potoroo all serve as bosses.

PLOT:

The game takes place on a small trio of islands just south-east of Australia, all owned by the evil scientist, Doctor Neo Cortex. With the aid of Doctor Nitrus Brio, he creates the Evolvo Ray, which they use to mutate the various animals living on the islands, all while causing terrible pollution. One of their experiments was a bandicoot, Crash. Once mutated by the Evolvo Ray, the duo tests the Cortex Vortex on him, a machine that would put him completely under their control.

However, this experiment on Crash fails, and Crash flees from his captors. Falling out of a window of Doctor Neo Cortex's castle, Crash awakes on a beach on N. Sanity Island. During Crash's time in captivity, he had become attached with another mutanted bandicoot, the female Tawna. Resolving to defeat Cortex, clean up the pollution he had caused and rescue Tawna, he sets off.

After defeating the tribesman Papu Papu, Crash crosses over to the second island, where he defeats two of the doctor's henchmen, mutants Ripper Roo and Koala Kong. Eventually, he makes it to the third island, where he enters the power plant causing the pollution. After making it to the core of the plant he fights its chief executive officer, Pinstripe Potoroo. During their battle the core is destroyed by stray bullets, halting the pollution.

After making his way to Cortex's castle, Crash wanders through the laboratories and defeats Doctor Nitrus Brio. He climbs to the top of the tower, and sets the castle on fire. As the building burns to the ground, Crash makes it to Cortex's airship, where he and Cortex fight. After using Doctor Cortex's own projectiles against him, he sends Cortex falling to his apparent death.

United with Tawna, they escape the burning castle on Doctor Cortex's airship.




VVhat was RIPPED ?
Nothing to my knowledge, yet it's smaller than the full version (503mb) found HERE.

Crash Bandicoot 1 (100mb) RIP, self-extracting WinRAR, 2 files, select the MODE file when COSI runs:

http://www.mediafire.com/?1hjtnznt1x2
http://www.mediafire.com/?9mj2dkmqw5p

New LiNK By Lesüp:
http://snesorama.us/board/showpost.p...99&postcount=4
Mirror by p98:
http://snesorama.us/board/showpost.p...83&postcount=8

A REP for a RIP ?
Click HERE to show your THANKS !


Enjoi !
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[Platformboy]

Great review btw like your stewie pic

[Madness23]

Nice review and thanks for the game.

[lesüp]

New Link !


Crash Bandicoot - SCUS-94900 ( 56 MB )

http://rapidshare.com/files/113038817/Band.rar

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[M0on]

Thx for the new link Lesüp ! Added a redirect to the first post .
M.

[Esener]

thank you very much

Game added to the PSX Ripped Game MasterList.
Thanks for the upload!

[p98]

Yet another link (mirror from lesüp's upload, without COSI and password - simply unpack and play):

http://www.mediafire.com/?diyut4z2ymq

Thanks.Added. +rep