If there is one thing that we have come to expect from a Crash Bandicoot game, it is the gloriously displayed graphics. Crash games have always been like a work of art with rich and vibrant color schemes, creative environments and cutting edge character designs. Well luckily CTR follows right along in the footsteps of its predecessors and actually may very well be the best looking Crash game to date. Naughty Dog just seems to understand the inner workings of the Playstation and really plays off of the strengths of the system. Characters have a nice sharp, crisp look to them and they make the transition into the world of Kart Racing quite gracefully.
Environments are superb with rich vibrant colors and creative designs.
About the only drawback is the fact that when you go into the multi-player mode and start splitting up the screen, the frame rate appears to take a hit. In single player mode the game moves fast but in the two player plus modes I often felt that I aswell as the rest of the pack was running with a speed restrictor on my kart. Don't get me wrong gameplay doesn't slow down at certain times and the speed is not erratic, the games starts out that way and stays steady for the duration. Sound effects are straight from previous Crash games as is the music. Many of the sounds will be quite familiar to past Crash gamers like the breaking boxes, the fruits dumping into your inventory and Crash's weird snickers.