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Considered by critics and fans at the time to be one of the greatest platformers on the [[PlayStation]], '''''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped''''' built upon the strengths of the first two games and added more vehicle-based levels (with the player taking control of a bi-plane, jetski or tiger at any given time), new abilities that could be earned by beating the game's bosses, and a Time Trial mode to keep players coming back to the levels to see how fast they could go.
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* [[Bottomless Pits]]: Forget Cortex, the bottomless pit is Crash's arch nemesis.
* [[Brains and Brawn]]: Coco and Crash, respectively, in character. For gameplay purposes, the distinction is nullified.
* [[Brick Joke]]: N. Tropy's defeat leads to concerns over whether the Time Twister will start acting erratically. {{spoiler|At the very end of the game, the machine gets engulfed in a super-sized warp ball and does indeed fall apart. Possibly an inverted [[Chekhov's Gunman]].}}
* [[Cat and Mouse Boss]]: Tiny Tiger begins the battle by chasing after Crash, trying to crush him with his leaping.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: In a sense, N.Tropy. By defeating him, Crash receives an urgent message from Uka Uka and Cortex berating him for incapacitating the only person able to maintain the Time Twister. {{spoiler|After the final boss battle on [[One Hundred Percent Completion]], the Time Twister goes haywire. In Aku Aku's own words: "The Time Twister machine could not hold itself together.}} Might count as a [[Brick Joke]] or as a bit of [[Take Your Time]].
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* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: Fake Crash appears as in three levels after 100% completion.
* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: The prehistoric levels.
* [[Everything's Better with Penguins]]: A penguin is taking a stroll through the Ice Age arena when Crash battles Dingodile. Though identical to the enemy penguins in [[Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back]], this one is just an [[Innocent Bystander]]. This might even be an [[Early-Bird Cameo]], if it's the same penguin who appeared in the [[Crash Team Racing]] spinoff.
* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: Crash gets an upgrade to his [[Spin Attack]] once he defeats N. Tropy. Not only can he spin for much longer, making for massive damage in some levels, but he can even glide with it if he spins at the top of a high jump. Combine this with the [[Double Jump]] upgrade and the result is pretty impressive.
* [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks]]: While Crash explores the ocean bottom, sharks are patrolling certain areas and if he blunders into one, it eats him. Coco also has to avoid sharks patrolling near the surface during her jet ski levels. Sharks were originally billed to appear as enemies in the first Crash game, but they were cut from the final product and had to wait for this game and its appropriate water levels before they were introduced.
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* [[Mad Scientist]]: Cortex, N.Tropy and N.Gin all qualify for this in some capacity.
* [[The Many Deaths of You]]: Improved over ''2'' ''a lot''. So much that you're more likely to see Crash being split to halves, kissed by a frog, scrapped to atoms, blown up like a balloon, bashed by a club right into the camera's direction and lots of death scenes like that, rather than him turning into angel.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Dingodile is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], a half-dingo, half-crocodile hybrid. [[Mix-and-Match Critters]], however, usually don't wield flamethrowers. N. Tropy's name is a pun on the word entropy, a physics concept which means, in layman's terms, disorder, especially in relation to the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
* [[Mook Maker]]: Crash gets a glimpse of one in the secret Warp Room.
* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: N. Tropy is the third in the trio of Doctors.
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* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Even despite it doesn't have secrets as [[Guide Dang It]] headdesky as ''2'', it's still pretty hard to get [[Hundred-Percent Completion|100% completion]] here, not even talking about extra 105%, thanks to multiple the time trials. Yes, you can get a hold of the Fruit Bazooka and much more faster running. And yes, you can restart the time trial as much as you want. But that won't really make the amount of hours spent on getting all the gold relics less ludicrous.
* [[One-Man Army|One Bandicoot Army]]: Seriously, think a moment about how many more [[Mook|Mooks]] Crash beats up in this game.
* [[
* [[Pass Through the Rings]]: The level Rings of Power level involves Crash flying his bi-plane through them in a race against three other planes. [[Spin Attack]] the rings to get a speed boost, but watch out for the Nitro crates on the balloons. The name of the level is actually a [[Shout-Out]] to a previous Naughty Dog title.
* [[Plot Coupon]]: The game almost entirely revolves around collecting crystals and gems ''and'' relics.
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* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Tomb Raider|Tomb Wader]], anyone?
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Lessened between Crash and Coco as both are now [[Action Hero]] bandicoots, and Coco's genius with computers is not referenced. Aku Aku and Uka Uka, however, are polar opposites.
* [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World]]: The Ice Age arena where you fight Dingodile. That's it. It's not even a very big level. Given the heavy prominence of snowy levels in the previous game, this comes as quite a stark contrast with [[Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back]].
* [[Space Zone]]: The future levels and the fourth boss battle.
* [[Spanner in the Works]]: {{spoiler|Crash derails the villains' plans by simply having beaten up Tropy earlier, which lets the time machine go havoc.}}
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* [[Temple of Doom]]: The Egyptian levels have this in spades, complete with elaborate [[Death Trap]] set-ups.
* [[Temporary Platform]]: A technological version of this appears in the future levels.
* [[This Cannot Be!]]: Uka Uka does this in the real ending {{spoiler|when the Time Twister finally goes mad and swallows him up.}}
* [[This Is the Part Where]]: Cortex is supposed to be angry after all the crystals were collected by Crash before his minions did. Much [[Lampshade Hanging]] follows.
* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: The Arabian swordsmen from the medieval Arabia levels continuously throw blades in a straight line, one after the other, even when Crash cannot possibly be hurt by them.
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* [[Trampoline Tummy]]: You can do this with the double-headed Lab Assistants in Double Header.
* [[Transforming Mecha]]: N. Gin's mecha.
* [[Trick Boss]]: Doctor N. Gin starts in a robot not too different from the one he used in the game before (he even tells the player he'd "made a few modifications" to the old robot he used in Crash 2), which uses similar attacks to the old one. Needless to say, it goes down after you shoot the same areas, [[Turns Red|only for it to flee, and dock with a much larger spacecraft]], complete with tougher weaponry and a new life bar.
* [[The Unfought]]: Uka Uka is the [[Big Bad]] and you never get to fight him. Instead, while Aku Aku keeps him busy, you have to take out Cortex (who'll drag Uka Uka with him).
* [[Video Game Lives]]: The rules of the last game carry on over to this one.
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