Unreleased Crash Bandicoot games

There have been seven Crash Bandicoot Games which were never finished.
Unreleased PS2 game
After Crash Bash was finished, Mark Cerny (who published the PS1 games and was president of Universal Interactive Studios), was designing the first Crash Bandicoot PS2 game. This game was going to be published by Sony, who published the PS1 games. However, Universal fell out with Cerny and Sony, and the game was dropped. Travelers Tales was then hired to make a new game with the classic formula, but were given only twelve months to do so. That game is The Wrath of Cortex
Crash Nitro Kart (Travels Tales)
. Crash Nitro Kart was originally going to be created by Travelers Tales, and would have been the debut of Nina Cortex. After Vicarious Visions got the rights to this game, Travelers Tales kept Nina and pushed her debut to Twinsanity, (which was actually beaten by the earlier release of Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage. Nothing else is known about the game, apart from the karts looking quite different.
Crash Bandicoot Evolution
Crash Twinsanity took over three years to make, because it is what's left of Crash Bandicoot Evolution. This game was Twinsanity's prototype, and was much different and larger. Only a small number of things were kept for Twinsanity, the Evil Twins as the villains, and Crash and Cortex working as a team being the most noticabele ones. The game would have been played in a platformer/ RPG hybrid gameplay. Several differences in this game were; Crash and Cortex traveling to different worlds, a playable Coco, a character called Foofie, and large Ant warriors. After this game was scrapped, it was briefly renamed into Crash Bandicoot Unlimited, and then finally Crash Twinsanity.
Crash Clash Racing
After developing Crash Twinsanity, Travelers Tales Oxford went on to create another Crash game, called Crash Clash Racing. This game eventually turned into Crash Tag Team Racing (after Radical Entertainment got the game). This game would have been set in Crash's mind, and persumably set after the events of Twinsanity. Evil Crash would have returned as a playable character, and each person would have his or her styled car. The clash feature had already been established (as evidenced by the title), and was countinued into Crash Tag Team Racing. Fakenina (who worked on Twinsanity and this game until it was cancelled), had created a story for this game:
"(...) the racing game would be set in Crash's head, with the rest of the Crash team traveling inside Crash's brain, with the tracks all based around Crash's dreams and memories."
According to the plot, this would have probably been a good game.
Cortex Chaos/The All New Cortex Show
After Crash Clash Racing was passed onto Radical Entertainment, Travelers Tales Oxford started making a Cortex-only game. Spacecat (who worked on Twinsanity, Clash Racing, and this), had ideas for this game. Cortex was kicked out of the Evil Scientist League, because of what had happened in Twinsanity. The new doctors, let by N.Tropy, were trying to get revenge on Cortex. It would have contained characters such as N.Trance, N.Tropy, N.Brio, N.Gin, N.Oxide, and more. New characters included Doctor N.Tombed, Doctor N.Tertain, and Doctor N.Tangle. The game would have had small Cortex clones, and have Nina give Cortex weapons upgrades. Universal decided to not release this game, but they still have the rights to it.

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