- Vibrant 3-D graphics with real-time lighting and shadow effects.
- 30 different levels, including a volcanic island and a Japanese village.
- C's sister Coco is now a playable character.
- Vehicular mayhem with a jeep, hang glider, and C-Mech.
- Includes a multiplayer minigame mode.
Product Description
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C Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, the first
next-generation addition to the bestselling PlayStation series,
delivers the same mix of intuitive gameplay and elaborate
adventure that fans have come to expect, with many enhancements
and all-new environments and missions. Neo Cortex is back, and he
means to rid himself of C once and for all. To energise his
most diabolical creation to date, Cortex channels the power of
the Elementals, a group of renegade s with the destructive
power of Air, Earth, Water and Fire. To stop the Elementals and
Cortex's new weapon, C or Coco (a fully playable character
for the first time) will face five game hubs, 25 dynamic levels
and five unique bosses, as well as the appearance of a new
character that will rock the C world.
You can complete specific levels of the game to play as C's
fiery sister. Coco will have a wide variety of moves and
animations tailored to fit her personality. New free-roam
sections will be implemented within certain levels of the game.
These sections feature puzzles and hidden areas never before seen
in a C game. New bosses and mini-bosses offer up a Noah's
Ark-sized list of new creatures. The game also has an all-new
graphics engine that brings vivid life to environment and
characters as never before. What's more, the terrible loading
times that blighted the PS2 version have thankfully been fixed
here.
.co.uk Review
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C Bandicoot, the famous marsupial video-game icon,
comes spinning into yet another solid action platform game in
C Bandicoot: the Wrath of Cortex. This is the first true
platform game for the Xbox, and is suitable for cartoon-action
loving fans of all ages.
Evil is at an all-time decline, so C's arch-nemesis Dr Neo
Cortex is designing the ultimate weapon: Crunch, the
extra-evil-bio-engineered-super-bandicoot. However, in order to
complete Crunch, the good doctor needs more power... the kind of
power that only evil, renegade voodoo s can provide. Enter
the Elementals.
Set free by the evil voodoo Uka-Uka, the Elementals control
various aspects of the environment. They are so powerful and so
dangerous that they almost destroyed the earth once, and were
sealed in special crystals to protect the earth from certain
doom. Uka-Uka believes that by harnessing the power of these evil
s, Dr Cortex will have all the power he needs to complete
Crunch and finally finish off C.
So once again C returns to his crystal-collecting,
box-bashing, bad guy-spinning ways. Can he stop the s? Will
he defeat Crunch? Only time, and your weary game-playing hands,
will tell.
The Wrath of Cortex is the hardest game in the series' history.
There are 30 levels, seven different vehicles for C to use,
bonus levels and a time trial mode. Also, as you progress
throughout the game, you fight five bosses and for each boss you
defeat, you unlock a new move (double jump, bazooka, tiptoe,
C dash and death tornado). And in what is probably the
coolest feature, you get to play as C's sister Coco on some
levels.
Okay, so the game is good, but is it perfect? Well, the graphics
are solid, but not much of an improvement over the PS2
version--it definitely doesn't take full advantage of the Xbox's
hardware. Also, the long load times for the levels can be
annoying. Lastly, C Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex was not
developed by Naughty Dog, the company that started the series.
The game, while faithfully following the traditional feel of the
series, misses some of the polished quirkiness that Naughty Dog
was known for.The Wrath of Cortex is a great game for all ages,
and will give you 40-plus hours of gameplay. --Bryan Karsh .com
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Manufacturer's Description
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The C Bandicoot series' first next-generation title
returns to the stunning blend of platform and action elements of
the million-selling PSone games, but uses the new console's
superior technology to create a larger and more interactive game
world. As such, Wrath of Cortex finds C running, jumping and
spinning through over 30 hazard-filled levels, with a host of
familiar faces from the long-running series also along for the
ride. Once again the series' villain and C's arch nemesis, Dr
Cortex, is up to no good--he's planning to use the power of the
elements to raise a powerful Elemental Lord to kill our hero.
Thus C is thrown into a series of levels themed around Earth,
Wind, Fire and Water, and must avoid contact with Cortex's many
cronies while collecting bonuses and using whatever comes to hand
in order to reach the end of each level. Amongst the new
additions to this game is C's all-new tiptoe move, while the
series' use of vehicles has also been hugely expanded with C
gaining access to gyrocopters, jeeps and a scooter. Players can
also now control C's friends, with Coco also stepping into
the limelight during the course of the game.
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