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Crash Boom Bang!

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Crash Boom Bang!
37
3.8 User Score:

Generally unfavorable reviews

Based on 14 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?

Based on 9 votes
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Game Info

Publisher: Vivendi Games / Sierra

Developer: Dimps

Genre(s): Party

Players: 4

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)

Release Date: October 10, 2006

Summary

In Crash Boom Bang!, Crash and his friends embark on a worldwide race in a quest for its multi-million dollar prize. With hidden intentions of finding an ancient lost city and the famed magical "Super Big Power Stone" that grants its user one wish, the race’s sponsor Viscount Devil plans on using the contestants to solve the mystery. The map of the race checkpoints is based on the Viscount’s ancient map, and the evil Dr. Neo Cortex, also an invitee to the race, has figured out the Viscount’s master plan and in his own relentless pursuit for world domination, sets out to steal the map and retrieve the legendary stone. It’s up to Crash and his friends to win the big race ... and save the world! [Vivendi]

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

65

AtomicGamer

I like the game, but unless you’re comfortable with the cost to take advantage of the multiplayer functionality – the entire point of the game – I can’t recommend it.

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61

Official Nintendo Magazine UK

Despite showing enormous potential, Crash Boom Bang! is hampered by dodgy controls and a testing user interface. It's disappointing because this could have been a great multiplayer game. [Christmas 2006, p.80]

50

Pocket Gamer UK

A distinct average and oddly passionless collection of touchscreen mini-games.

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48

Games Master UK

Passes the time of day in multi-player but single player is slow and dull. [Christmas 2006, p.101]

47

NGamer UK

Not actually broken in any way, it's just an oddly vacuous and simplistic take on the poisoned ground previously laid down by Hudson. [Nov 2006, p.69]

43

GameSpot

Although it lets you wander around a game board and participate in various multiplayer challenges as your favorite Crash Bandicoot characters, the game ultimately crashes and burns because the majority of its minigames are lifeless and uninteresting.

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40

Nintendo Power

Unless you're a die-hard fan of the series, you may want to wait for the bandicoot's next offering. [Nov. 2006, p.88]

33

Worth Playing

Crash Boom Bang is a mess. There are too many unneeded features, not enough time was spent developing the important ones, and hundreds of small hiccups and issues make this game feel like it should have gone through more inspections at every level of design.

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30

Eurogamer

It could have been an interesting title but the problems with control, weird gameplay style, terrible graphics and rigged, repetitive games just kill any joy that would be garnered from playing it.

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30

PALGN

A dull and poorly designed game. The mini-games are boring, you can't save in-game and you'll be waiting around a lot of the time. This is just a quickly rushed license title.

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25

Digital Entertainment News

This genre has been done better. Looks like Crash has been used to sell yet another crappy game.

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20

Games Radar (in-house)

The minigames don't play any better with real-world opponents and the few games available for single-cart download play are not worth sharing.

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20

IGN

Crash! Boom! Bang! looks good, sounds pretty okay, and has had a decent amount of focus put into the multiplayer support of the Nintendo DS. It's just a terrible, terrible game with poor organization...Easily one of the worst games on the system.

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13

WHAM! Gaming

Games like this ought to be easy to pick up and play, but “Crash Boom Bang” is so confusing and unnecessarily complicated that it will make any player shut off the DS in frustration.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 3.8 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Heidi T. gave it a0:
I had no clue on what to do in this game I regret buying it.

Cameron C. gave it a0:
Crash did not leave with a bang. Crash has really gone down hill since he isn't developped by Naughty Dog.

Crashed Bandicoont gave it a0:
Horrible. I loved ol' Crash back in the PS1 days, but the well has run dry on this franchise.

Walawoo P. gave it a0:
Just glad I kept the receipt, even brought a Nintendo DS just so I could play the latest crash game. This is by far the worst crash game I've ever played, just lifeless. Thank you vivendo, Dimps and Radical entertainment, you've killed the Bandicoot we all know and love. BRING BACK NAUGHTY DOG!

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