Crash Boom Bang is a 2006 party game developed by Radical Entertainment and Blitz Games Studios and published by Vivendi Universal Games under the Sierra Entertainment label and released for PS2, PSP, Wii, GameCube and Xbox consoles.
Gameplay[]
The gameplay of this game would resemble Crash Bash (one of the well known Crash party games), Fuzion Frenzy (a party game that Blitz Games Studios made) and Monsters, Inc. Scream Arena (a party game that Radical Entertainment made).
Voice Cast[]
- Jess Harnell as Crash
- Debi Derryberry as Coco
- Lex Lang as Dr. Neo Cortex
- Greg Eagles as Aku Aku
- Alex Fernandez as Uka Uka
- Chris Williams as Crunch
- Amy Gross as Nina Cortex
- Nolan North as Dr. N. Gin
- Corey Burton as Dr. Nefarious Tropy and Viscount
- Roger Jackson as Willie Wumpa Cheeks 2.0
- Tom Bourdon as N. Trance
Quotes[]
Crash Boom Bang! (Consoles/PSP)/Transcript
Gallery[]
Reception[]
The game received mixed to average reviews, unlike original DS game.
Trivia[]
- This is the only Crash Bandicoot game that would be co-developed by another publisher, which is Blitz Games Studios.
- This is the only Crash Bandicoot game that would be developed by Blitz Games, which is known for Pac-Man World 3, Bratz games and some Nickelodeon games.
- This game was also going to have PC and PS3 versions, but later they got cancelled due to impossibility and poor sales.
- Unlike original DS game, it doesn't have JPN release.
- Unlike original DS game, this version doesn't have Tawna, Pinstripe Potoroo, Pura and Polar. Instead, console version has Passadena O'Possum.
- Ripper Roo makes a cameo appearance.
- This is the second and last Crash game to use extended Sierra logo. But on PSP and Wii versions, the Sierra logo is shortened.
- For this version, Spiralmouth sang the music, and Radical's in-house composer Marc Baril, as well as Blitz Games's composer Matt Black edited the tracks.
- This is the last Crash console game that would be composed by Spiralmouth, due to they're (Gabriel Mann and Rebecca Kneubuhl) will be later compose The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night console version soundtrack (CBNK2 doesn't count because it's a mobile game).
- This the first Crash game to reuse Crash's voice clips from Crash Tag Team Racing.
- In the game files there are some unused Neo Cortex's quotes, as well as unused music that was written by Matt Black. Some of the unused themes were reused in CFTKK and Atlantis SquarePantis videogame.
- In this version, Viscount has voice acting. He also did some appearances in some scenes.
- The game basically uses same engine as The Simpsons: Hit and Run and Crash Tag Team Racing, while some minigames uses BlitzTech engine.