Quickies: Everything new that we know of from Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled’s State of Play Reveal

You probably did or did not see the new State of Play Reveal for Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled, right?

Regardless, why not talk about some quick things that recently came up with the major March 2019 trailer reveal:

• In the trailer and press release, it is stated that Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled will indeed receive content from Crash Nitro Kart completely remade from the ground up, this includes tracks, battle arenas, karts and battle modes
  • All 13 tracks will be playable in the game
  • In a recently released interview by Raphaël Lavoie of Le Journal de Québec (French) with Beenox’s Creative Director Thomas Wilson, he went on to state that all previously mentioned types of content above will also includes the characters from CNK
  • He then goes on to say that they redesigned the tracks as well to make them more distinctive and match its mechanics closer to that of CTR
  • Indeed, this interview has been shared by Beenox on Facebook and can be taken as a confirmation
• The recent reveal trailer and screenshots revealed the following in terms of content from Crash Team Racing:
  • Track(s) (including previously seen ones): Hot Air Skyway, Papu’s Pyrmaid, Sewer Speedway and Coco Park
  • Battle Arena(s): Skull Rock, Lab Basement and Parking Lot (with CNK’s Crystal Grab Battle Mode)
• The recent reveal trailer and screenshots revealed the following in terms of content from Crash Nitro Kart:
  • Track(s): Electron Avenue, Deep Sea Driving & Clockwork Wumpa
  • Battle Arena(s): Desert Storm
• The trailer and press release also revealed that the PlayStation 4 version of the game will get exclusive polygon-themed perks (Retro/Classic)
  • Retro Crash Bandicoot, Coco, and Cortex skins
  • Retro Karts for each corresponding character
  • Retro Track (yet to be revealed)
  • PlayStation-themed Sticker Pack for Karts (Pre-order Bonus)
• The game’s going to be playable at PAX East 2019 with the following stages playable:
  • Crash Team Racing: Papu’s Pyramid and Sewer Speedway
  • Crash Nitro Kart: Electron Avenue and Clockwork Wumpa
  • There’s a championship event that will be held at PlayStation’s booth with a chance to race against 7 other players with prizes and more

That’s all for now, this post might get more information as we go through the months with new content and tidbits to include.

Thanks to VTNVIVI and everyone else for the help of making this post.

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Bullet Point Info Summary of the Thomas Wilson’s Q&A Interview(s) regarding Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled

If you haven’t been following details in the Q&A Interview articles published at Activision Blog closely regarding Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled, then here’s a nice summary article of everything that you need to know, split into two parts. Please note that the Q&As are also somewhat vague on some details that might get elaborated on officially later as we get closer to release, so there is some guessing added:

(Please let me know if there’s any errors, missing bits or clarification that needs to be added on social media, comments section below or via the contact page)

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Speculation: Will the 2019 Crash Bandicoot game (CTR/New Platformer) move to Unreal Engine 4?

EDIT 3: Beenox has confirmed that the engine Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is running on Alchemy (assumed to be a fork…)

EDIT 2: I’m not sure about it for Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled by Beenox, hopefully, some confirmation is coming…

EDIT: Turns out that the answer could probably be a “yes” to whatever Vicarious Visions is developing, it certainly isn’t for the remake of Crash Team Racing developed by Beenox. Let’s move the goal post to 2020…

Short answer without having to read the article: Yes, most likely.

Long answer: As we all know, Toys for Bob has currently two projects that utilize the Unreal Engine 4 as its base game engine, Spyro Reignited Trilogy and an unannounced multiplayer game that’s assumed to be still in the works. The question is will the next Crash Bandicoot project that’s staled for 2019 use the engine? There’s not much evidence to be found in job openings as of yet since they’re also working heavily with Bungie on Destiny 2 and should help with the move to the engine, but a clue from Vicarious Visions tells a different story.

Benny, a Software Engineer at the company, posted this picture on Instagram all the way back in October 2016 of this shirt that shows the fall of the Alchemy logo as a monolithic floating object falling into its demise at water level with a warrior looking at it on the left, captioned “Farewell Alchemy“. Vicarious Visions has recently expanded its studio adding 115 jobs, investing $7.3 million around August and recently posted two job openings looking for employees with experience on multiplayer games around an “Exciting new project“ and has assisted Toys for Bob on its development on Spyro Reignited Trilogy (not unusual for either of the studios as they consistently kept a close eye helping each other since Skylanders).

Joe Pearson talks about multiple aborted movie pitches attempted for Crash Bandicoot ft. Paramount

In the midst of Joe Pearson showing off some of the concept art that he had done for the original Crash Bandicoot game (1996), he showed off a stash of some tonal backgrounds designs from 1994 (listed below in the gallery) showing off the bridge from levels like Road to Nowhere and The High Road, somebody commented on why he feels like that “Crash Bandicoot should have a movie by now”.

#NationalSmileDay: Who’s got a better smile, smirk and looks than the bandicoot himself?

I’ll wait…