very long load times

[Gurm]

That game is silly silly in terms of load times.

Basically, it's a 1GB game. It was too big to fit on a CD, so instead of putting it on a DVD, they compressed the living s**t out of it. I mean, when you have already-compressed textures, the WORK the poor system has to do to decompress the "extra heavy" compression from 1GB to 450MB is just obscene.

This isn't the first time the Crash people have done something this bizarre though. Crash Team Racing was very poorly implemented as well, on the original PSX. All the music was done digitally, and uber-compressed. Lots of "bad sound effects", even on pristine originals if your laser wasn't at 100%.

- Gurm