There's a ludicrous amount for free here. And if that is not enough action, battle your opponents online in exciting races and pretty desctructive deathmatch-fights. And most importantly, crashing is lots of fun. Experience the singleplayer-campaign with spectacular shootings, reckless driving through the German city of Cologne and a blind date in way you will never forget. Some of the architecture, such as an epic gothic cathedral, is breathtaking.
But perhaps all that will be much more clear in the full game.įrom the look of this demo, this is likely to be a properly interesting GTA-alike, which is something we haven't seen for quite a while. And the gobbledook conversations from the characters seem to contradict each other. Am I meant to be running them off the road, or following them home? Because when I smash them into walls, they don't seem to mind that I carry on following them after. A hotdog stand you can then smash to smithereens without being penalised.Ĭar chases are a little confusing. It seems the city has been overrun by a cartel of evil criminals from many nations across many aspects of hard crime! Ben and Semir are charged with TAKING THEM DOWN! This is performed by finding their hideouts, chasing their cars, and delivering hotdogs for the nice New York lady who mysteriously runs the hotdog stand in central Cologne. The missions are more sensibly spread out across an open world, picked up on the fly, or by visiting locations. I've been playing for ages now, and it's still going. There's only so much damage a car can take, but trifling details like a wheel falling off are automagically fixed to let you carry on enjoying yourself. But unlike the mystifying third game, here crashing is positively encouraged. I'd like to see a bit more generosity with the handbrake - it's not exactly a game that encourages drift. Cars are fun to drive, on the extremely arcadey side of realism (where things should be, naturally), letting you travel at ridiculous paces. Set in Cologne, the city is absolutely gorgeous and meticulously detailed. There's even two different actors playing the leads! While it's still packed with the same embarrassingly corny voice acting and barely comprehensibly translated dialogue, the game itself has learned so many lessons. But past that this is a monolithic step forward for what was a painfully mediocre series. In the game's story, iconic villains from previous Crash Bandicoot games team up to conquer all of reality, with only Crash and his friends able to stop them.
Now there's a demo for Crash Time 4, and blimey, things have improved.įirst be warned, this will install GFWL without asking for permission. Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is the eighth game in the main Crash Bandicoot franchise, and takes the series back to its roots with difficult platforming set in gorgeous fantasy worlds.
When I reviewed Crash Time III for PC Gamer, I was confused to find that the game was actively against the idea of crashing, and so very best of all, the two lead characters, Ben Jäger and Semir Gerkan, were both voiced by the same man, not even trying to differentiate between them. When Jim took a look at Crash Time II he found it to be rather dull. Complete the Installation, that’s it!ĥ.The German Crash Time series has always been a mysterious one. Video Card (graphics): 256 MB VRAM, DirectX 9.0c compatible card (Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT / ATI RadeonĤ. Memory: 1 GB for Windows XP / 2 GB for Windows Vista Processor: Intel Pentium 4 at 3.2 GHz / Athlon 64 3200+ or better Operating System: Windows XP SP2 / Windows Vista SP1
Release Name: Crash Time 4: The Syndicate – TPTB Crash Time IV is the fourth edition of the popular series of action games, car budget, also known under the title of Alarm for Cobra 11. Players can experience the game in single player mode or multiplayer, which allows up to eight players to play challenges online. Semir and Ben need to force them to reveal hints that will lead the cops to their hideouts – in order to bring the syndicates’ organized criminal activities to an end. Criminal subjects and members of the syndicate are scattered all over the street.
While responding to these calls, players also need to neatly monitor the streets. While patrolling the breathtaking German city of Cologne, Semir and Ben are called to various action-packed police operations. Crash Time 4: The Syndicate was released in Germany (as Alarm for Cobra 11) on November 29 2010.This is the first title in the franchise, to feature online multiplayer.
Thus, players go through various missions based on the events of the TV series. In Crash Time 4, players are chasing down a criminal syndicate, whose members are trying to stop the police and gain control over the scenic city of Cologne.īased on the German TV series Alarm für Cobra 11, players slip into the roles of the two highway cops Semir and Ben, the TV series’ main characters.