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Crash Nitro Kart is a mobile phone game released on september 2004. It was developed by IPlay.
Generalities
The moble version of CNK is, like most old mobile racers, a bit dull. The game has two modes: Single Race and Tournament. Single Race is self-explanatory, and Tournament makes you drive through all 4 tracks of an environment in succesion, accumulating points based on your position. If you rank above the other characters, you win. Only by winning tournaments can you unlock new environments. There are 3 of these: City (based off of Android Alley), Beach (based off of Inferno Island) and Castle (based off of Clockwork Wumpa).
There are 4 playable characters, each with his/her own qualities. Crash has excellent steering, good acceleration but is very slow. Cortex has excellent speed, medium accelleration and bad steering. Crunch has good speed and acceleration, but bad steering. Coco is the slowest of the bunch, but she has great steering and good acceleration.
Each track is very simple with small allusions to the console versions: there are turbo pads, holes and weapon Crates. For some reason, the theme song is that of Crash Bandicoot 3 (or any of the other four games that recycles it).