What the heck is a Bandicoot?
Every dog has its day, and every major console has its mascot. Like professional sports, any serious competition needs comic relief. Sega has Sonic, Nintendo has Mario, and Sony has Crash Bandicoot. Starring in three great platform titles already, Sony has decided to pass the developing ball to Eurocom for their first shot at letting Crash into the arena of multi-player party games. If you don’t recognize the name Eurocom, they’re the ones who brought us such gaming “gems” as War Gods and Mortal Kombat 4. Snicker, snicker. Crash Bash follows the footsteps of Mario Party by supporting 1-4 players (via multi-tap) in an all-out frenzy of twitchy thumbs and screams of frustration and defeat as well as cackles of victory. Multi-player is what this game is all about, though you are forced to play the single-player missions in order to unlock the levels. The upside to this is that after playing the CPU in what seems like hundreds of rounds, it’ll be easy to open that can of whoop-ass on your
