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Within their secret lair in deep space, Dr. Cortex and his cronies are sour over their previous defeats by Crash Bandicoot. [[Big Bad|Uka Uka]] is giving them an intense chewing out, they still haven't conquered the world and [[Card-Carrying Villain|their current evil productivity]] is pathetic. Within their convension over how to eliminate their nemesis, N. Gin brainlessly mentions Dr. Cortex's super secret project, Crunch Bandicoot, a super mutant with unbelievable strength. However, he requires a completing element. Uka Uka immediately devises upon releasing The Elementals, an destructive band of Elemental masks that had previously been imprisoned by Aku Aku, that can be used to power Crunch as well as bring chaos and destruction to the entire planet. Once again it is up to Crash and his sister Coco to save the day.
 
The sixth installment in the ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' series and the fourth platformer title. '''''Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex''''' was also the first title in the series to make a leap to a next generation console. It was developed by Traveler's Tales' Knutsford division and originally released on the [[Play StationPlayStation 2]] and later ported to the Xbox and [[Nintendo GamecubeGameCube]]. The game, while maintaining itself as a "slow burner" in sales at the time, was met with mixed reception by fans and critics alike, essentially acting as a carbon copy of ''[[Crash Bandicoot 3 Warped]]'' with new levels and bosses, and despite doing a competent job of recreating the original games' gameplay, suffered from [[Loads and Loads of Loading]] and adding little new to the series ([[Scrappy Mechanic|or at least little new that was productive]]), with the exception of [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Crunch]].
 
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* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: Though [[Mark Hamill]]'s hammy acting ensures he is still somewhat entertaining, Py-ro comes off as much more sinister and manic than [[Laughably Evil|his bretheren]], even refered to as the strongest and most evil mask in the manual. He was in fact meant to be the final Elemental boss, though was switched with Lo-lo for unknown reasons.
** Crunch himself lacks most of the [[Laughably Evil]] traits of Cortex's other minions, the creepy transformations caused by the Elemental masks doesn't help {{spoiler|This however, proved to be a result of being [[Brainwashed and Crazy]], as later games show, the normal, good-natured Crunch [[Cloudcuckoolander|isn't]] [[Good Is Dumb|serious]] [[Motor Mouth|or intimidating]], [[Gentle Giant|at all]].}}
* [[Loads and Loads of Loading]]: The original [[Play StationPlayStation 2]] version infamously suffered from tediously long loading times. You could be waiting up to a minute just to play each level. The "Greatest Hits"/"Platinum" versions as well as the GameCube and Xbox ports fixed this to a more tolerable fifteen or so seconds.
* [[The Many Deaths of You]]: As usual, the developers take great fun in imagining any possible amusing manner Crash can lose a life, ranging from being torched to ashes, turned into a bat or freezing into a mini iceburg. Coco gets in on it too, though not nearly to the extent.
* [[Minecart Madness]]: The start of "Compactor Reactor". "Ghost Town" is a minecart race.
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