Hovercraft

Oxide's Hovercraft, or simply known as the hovercraft, is a green hovercraft belonging to Nitros Oxide. It has been seen in many Crash games and acts as a kart for him. It has appeared in Crash Team Racing, Crash Bash, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, and Crash Twinsanity. In Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, it appears as one of the playable kart bodies for the first time.

Appearance
The body of the vehicle is a bright green color with chrome headlights and exhaust pipes. It is about three times the size of a standard kart. In Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, the vehicle is considerably smaller, roughly the same size as the Team Oxide Kart, most likely so that it can be used a kart option for other characters in the game.

A variation of the hovercraft is seen in the level Oxide Ride in Crash Bash, where two wings jut out from the sides. The coloration of this hovercraft is more greyish than the previous hovercraft. However, the rest of the hovercraft seems to resemble the previous hovercraft.

When the player enters the Ballistix part of Oxide Ride, Nitros Oxide switches to yet another variation of his hovercraft. This one has a strip of lights replacing his headlights from Crash Team Racing. The coloring is also darker.

In Crash Twinsanity, Oxide reverts back to a hovercraft similar to his original hovercraft. There are only two minor changes in appearance: the headlights have a black encasement as opposed to the chrome ones in Crash Team Racing, and this hovercraft only has four exhaust pipes as opposed to six in Crash Team Racing.

How Oxide's hovercraft is controlled and piloted has varied throughout the series. In Crash Team Racing, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex and Crash Twinsanity, the vehicle is controlled by joysticks on the sides. In Crash Bash, the joysticks are replaced by levers. In Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, the hovercraft is instead given a steering wheel to help unify it with other karts in the game.

Function
Oxide's hovercrafts have served several purposes throughout the series. The original purpose seen for the hovercraft was to travel short distances through space and race similarly to a kart in Crash Team Racing. In the same game, the hovercraft is able to shoot missiles, etc. like any of the karts.

In Crash Bash, however, Oxide's hovercraft is shown being able to travel through deep space. A new feature of the hovercraft in Crash Bash is its ability to participate in a Ballistix-style game. Here it can repel the balls, like any of the crafts in the other Ballistix levels.

Trivia

 * This is one of the kart body options in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled that the player cannot select the 'Wheels' option for, primarily because it doesn't have any wheels. Another example  is the Probulot 2000.

Navicella di Oxide