Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time Reviews

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is ranked in the 93rd percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
8.7 / 10.0
Oct 1, 2020

A love message for Crash Bandicoot's old fans. The new look is great, but sometimes the difficulty need to be balanced.

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9 / 10.0
Oct 1, 2020

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About is an incredible return from a beloved franchise that hadn't had a new game for a decade. It takes everything that made the original trilogy great and expands it in a way we only think it could surpass... Naughty Dog itself.

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9.1 / 10.0
Oct 1, 2020

Crash is back again with one of its best adventures that feels and plays like a modern instant classic. Welcome back good old Bandicoot!

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8.8 / 10.0
Oct 1, 2020

Long-lived, colorful, fun and complex, It's About Time conveys the return to precision platforming, where every jump is calibrated with due accuracy counts, and in which the player's skill is mainly enhanced.

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Areajugones
Top Critic
9 / 10.0
Oct 1, 2020

Crash Bandicoot returns with an adventure that oozes nostalgia, originality, fun and a multitude of bonus content to delight fans and newcomers to the saga. Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is the game the world has been waiting for many years, and it also manages to go beyond all expectations.

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8.5 / 10.0
Oct 1, 2020

Full of colour, humour, and challenge, Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is a storming return and a great follow up to the original trilogy.

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Kotaku
Top Critic
Unscored
Oct 1, 2020

Don’t let the lush, colorful graphics and whimsical, xylophone-heavy soundtrack fool you. Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time’s fun and frivolous facade hides a game that feels like it’s actively trying to murder mischievous marsupials. It’s about snatching victory from the jaws, bombs, fast-moving vehicles, spinning blades, laser grids, and fire spouts of death. I failed much more often than I succeeded during my run thanks to Ray West and his lackeys, but I had a great time doing it.

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95 / 100
Oct 1, 2020

Crash 4 will delight fans new and old with its stylized visuals, delightful sense of humor, and hard as nails platforming. While the new characters have a few control issues, the game is an absolute blast from start to finish.

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9.8 / 10.0
Oct 1, 2020

Crash Bandicoot arrives spinning and jumping in a new release that solidifies even more the great work that Toys for Bob has been doing with its resmasterizations. Crash Bandicoot 4: It's about time could easily be on the podium of the best Crash.

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8 / 10
Oct 1, 2020

An outstanding return for the beloved series! With new mechanics, new playable characters and gameplay changes, Toys for Bob made Crash even more fun while staying true to the series fans.

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8 / 10
Oct 1, 2020

Crash 4 is a pitch-perfect revival of the classic platformer franchise.

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8.8 / 10.0
Oct 1, 2020

Toys For Bob did a great job of taking the essence of Crash and adapting it to modern times. The result is a platformer who proudly carries the legacy of a legendary trilogy, but does enough to feel new and not be a simple homage to the past.

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GRYOnline.pl
Karol Laska
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Oct 1, 2020

The new Crash Bandicoot did not take the easy route and even managed to push the boundaries in a few respects. It’s living proof that some genres don’t need a forced revolution. Why reinvent something when the old ways work perfectly? It’s great there's a platformer out there such as It’s About Time.

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8.6 / 10.0
Oct 1, 2020

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time has everything you asked for in a new numbered installment of the saga. It is fun, varied and with a multitude of things to do. A must have for fans.

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87 / 100
Oct 1, 2020

More than a successful comeback, that brings many new ideas and is in no way inferior to the PS1 originals.

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9 / 10.0
Oct 1, 2020

Overall, Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time is not only a fantastic nostalgia trip for a modern age and old-school hardcore fans, it’s also a great game on its own merit and proves that modern day platformers can easily co-exist in a market that’s saturated with shooters, battle royales, competitive online games, and RPGs, if done right.

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TheSixthAxis
Steve C
Top Critic
7 / 10
Oct 2, 2020

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time really is the definitive Crash game. Toys For Bob have taken all the series' trademarks, refined them into a challenging and polished experience and given us tons of levels to play and secrets to hunt for. There's new characters to play as and masks that shake up the gameplay when they appear, but Crash 4 is the same old Bandicoot who's learnt a few new tricks.

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Oct 2, 2020

Gameplay hasn’t changed much, but it doesn’t mean that Crash 4 doesn’t have anything fresh to offer. On the contrary. Several new mechanics introduced by Toys For Bob make the game even more satisfying than its previous installments.

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Recommended
Oct 2, 2020

With some imperfections, Toys For Bob delivers an enjoyable, goofy, deviously challenging and occasionally genius sequel.

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8 / 10
Oct 2, 2020

We thought that Crash Bnadicoot would never be the same iconic character he once was : we were wrong. this fourth episode brings back every fundation of the series, twisting it with the brand news quantum masks mecanics, to delivred a strong, rich, colorful and demanding entry to the series. Rooted in the late 90's, Crash just need to discard its old precision issues to compete with the big ones of the beloved platform genre.

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