| Crash Bandicoot: Warped | |
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 North American box art | |
| Developer(s) | Naughty Dog |
| Publisher(s) | Sony Computer Entertainment |
| Director(s) | Jason Rubin |
| Producer(s) |
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| Designer(s) | Evan Wells |
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| Artist(s) |
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| Writer(s) | Jason Rubin |
| Composer(s) | Josh Mancell |
| Series | Crash Bandicoot |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation |
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| Genre(s) | Platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Crash Bandicoot: Warped, known in Europe as Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped,[1][2] is a 1998 platform game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. It is the third game in the Crash Bandicoot video game series following Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back.
The game's story takes place immediately after the events of the second game. When the ruins of Doctor Neo Cortex's space station crash-land on Earth, they unleash an evil entity known as Uka Uka, Aku Aku's evil twin brother, who joins with Cortex and the time-obsessed Doctor Nefarious Tropy as they plan to gather powerful crystals that lay scattered across time, and use their energy to enslave the Earth. The game follows the main characters Crash and Coco Bandicoot as they travel through time and prevent the villains from gathering the crystals by collecting them themselves.
Crash Bandicoot: Warped was lauded by critics, who noted a high quality in many areas, including gameplay, graphics and audio, and the game has been considered one of the best video games of all time. It went on to sell nearly 6 million units, making it one of the best-selling video games for the PlayStation. In Japan, the game surpassed the sales of its two predecessors and became the first non-Japanese PlayStation title to sell over 1 million copies in the country. A remastered version was included in the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy collection for the PlayStation 4 in June 2017, and ported to other platforms in June 2018.
- ^ "Crash Bandicoot: Warped PAL front cover". MobyGames. Blue Flame Labs. Archived from the original on January 25, 2014. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
- ^ "Crash Bandicoot: Warped PAL back cover". MobyGames. Blue Flame Labs. Archived from the original on February 27, 2014. Retrieved September 26, 2015.