By John McCann
Crash Bandicoot is one of my all time favorite game franchises. I owned the main trilogy as well as Crash Bash and Crash Team Racing (CTR), and plowed countless hours, days, weeks, probably months, into them.
So when I heard that the original trilogy was being remastered in 4K for PS4 I was thrilled, but also rather nervous.
I’ve been burnt before. Micro Machines, especially V3, is another all-time favorite and when it returned last year I was excited… until I installed it on my iPad and started playing.
Instead of a loving homage to the Micro Machine classics, the new version has been hideously modified.
It sports a freemium model while local eight-person multiplayer has been ditched in favor of online battles which don’t just rely on skill – and the occasional slice of luck from the Micro Machines gods – but also how much money you’re willing to plough into in-app purchases to get you ahead of the competition.
For the record it’s not a bad game, I’ve actually played it a lot, but to try and pass it off as a Micro Machines follow up is a little insulting.
It was this experience, and similar app-based reboots of games such as Theme …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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