Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled Reviews

Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled is ranked in the 91st percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Essential
Jun 21, 2019

Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled is a gold-standard remaster, capturing the loveably janky, off-brand spirit of classic CTR - and then some.

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IGN
Top Critic
8.2 / 10.0
Jun 21, 2019

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled's difficulty, memorable track design, and addictive power-slide mechanic make it a kart racer worth playing but it's not without its frustrations.

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Jun 21, 2019

This faithful recreation of the once king of kart racers means Crash Team Racing has seized the throne once more, with enough content and a high skill ceiling to keep players returning for years.

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Metro GameCentral
Top Critic
8 / 10
Jun 25, 2019

The best Mario Kart clone of the nineties is also the best Mario Kart clone of the 21st century, with a stunning remake that offers welcome refinement and improvement.

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8.5 / 10.0
Jul 2, 2019
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8 / 10.0
Jun 20, 2019

Beenox did a great job preserving the original content, and found avenues to add to it in meaningful ways

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Oscar Dayus
Top Critic
8 / 10
Jun 21, 2019

Crash Team Racing feels as good now as it did 20 years ago. The Bandicoot is back, baby.

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Jun 24, 2019

Despite those bumps in the road, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is both a respectful reimagining and a superb, modernized kart racer in its own right. It accurately borrows from its inspirations and enhances their qualities in ways that feel true to what Naughty Dog would have done if it had the hardware.

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8 / 10.0
Jun 28, 2019

Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled not only succeeds as a loving and faithful adaptation of the classic PS1 release, but it has been turbo-boosted by a glut of welcome new content including characters, tracks, and modes. Though it occasionally shows its age in course design, and erratically pumps the brakes with a surprising difficulty spike, Nitro-Fueled remains a fast and fun kart racer, sure to please old fans and worthy of a test drive from new ones.

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9 / 10
Jun 21, 2019

First there was the N. Sane Trilogy and now there's Nitro-Fuelled. Activision's Crash Team Racing rebirth is more than a quick cash grab – Beenox has modernised an all-time classic with such evident passion, making this the best kart racing game we've seen on PlayStation or Xbox for many, many years.

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85 / 100
Jun 21, 2019

A comprehensive, colorful and varied racing game that will appeal nostalgic gamers as well as nitro junkies.

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Areajugones
Top Critic
8.1 / 10.0
Jun 21, 2019

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled does a great job to revive an experience of pure fun in the field of driving. With a team of pilots that exceeds the figure of 20 - just like the circuits -, a sweet memory and a visual section perfectly adapted to the current times, we can safely say that Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is about everything nostalgic could have asked.

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8 / 10
Jul 5, 2019

If you're looking for a new (technically old) kart racer to dive into and give your all, this is definitely a great one to add to the pile, especially if you've gotten your fill of all the iterations of Mario Kart.

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8.5 / 10.0
Jun 21, 2019

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is still the best alternative to Mario Kart. Its cast of charismatic characters, its gameplay and power-ups, as well as its race tracks are at a high level. It is a pity that this remake has almost no new content and is limited to remaking the original CTR and Nitro Kart.

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9 / 10.0
Jun 21, 2019

The classic CTR return faster, bigger and even better.

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Alex Donaldson
Top Critic
Unscored
Jun 21, 2019

Nostalgia might well have carried this one through, but in truth it doesn’t need it: this is a great game that has for the most part aged remarkably well, with the visual upgrade and other tweaks serving to make absolutely certain it’s worth the price of admission

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Attack of the Fanboy
by Dean James
Top Critic
Jun 21, 2019

Not just a 1 to 1 remake like Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled comes with the content you love from the original as well as additional tracks from a later entry in the series as well, proving that everybody's favorite Bandicoot still has plenty of gas in the tank.

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9 / 10.0
Jun 24, 2019

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is a fantastic remaster, filled with great courses and plenty of replayability, even if the difficulty sometimes feels off.

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85 / 100
Jun 20, 2019

Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled has the thrilling speed and the addictive gameplay of the original and adds a metric ton of extra content for fans and newcomers to enjoy. Whether you're new to the frantic frenzy of Crash Team Racing or you've been hankering for a chance to play as Nitros Oxide himself, there's a whole lot of things to love

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Jul 5, 2019

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled has more content than most other kart racers in existence, but the game's stiff difficulty will be polarizing for players.

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