Prerelease:Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure

This page details pre-release information and/or media for Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure.

Early Preview

General Differences

• The HUD always displays two digits.
  • The life icon from the PS1 Crash games is used as a placeholder.
  • The crate counter is animated, a feature not present in the final game.
    • It also does not automatically pull up every time a crate is broken.
  • The total crate tally uses a brown font.
• Enemies don't have proper death animations at this point - they seem to vanish when jumped on, and will not fly off the screen when spun.
• The physics seem to be bit off when interacting with crates.
• Aku Aku does not drop feathers when lost.
• Wumpa fruits appear to have some physics applied to them when dropped from crates.
• Checkpoint crates won't display the letters coming out when opened.
• Life is automatically added up when breaking the life crate, rather than dropping a life pickup.
• The life crate has a different mugshot.
• The Aku Aku icon in the crate is different.
• The crate sprites are different, more akin to their original PS1 textures.

Jungle Jam

• The lizard enemies are blue.
• Man-eating plants have a darker shade of purple.
  • It's also facing the wrong side.
• Waterfalls are static.
• There is no exit pad at the end of the level.
• There are 17 crates in the level as opposed to 42.

Shipwrecked

• The surface of the water can be seen at the top at the start of the level, a la Crash Bandicoot: Warped.
• The submergible vehicle would have made a return, but was ultimately cut. Unlike its Warped counterpart, here it appears to have a drill attached to its tip.

Frostbite Cavern

• Ice physics are missing at this point, as well as Crash's skidding animation.
• The ? crate is empty.
• There are 13 crates in the level as opposed to 114.

Later Preview

General Differences

• Collecting a crystal won't play any sounds or effects.
• The life crate features a different mugshot.
• Life is automatically added up when breaking the life crate, rather than dropping a life pickup.
• The exit pad is gray and features a simpler design.
  • No sound is played during the teleport animation either.

Jungle Jam

• The space theme plays here, likely as a placeholder.
• Waterfalls are static.
• The crystal is placed further higher up.
• There are 37 crates in the level as opposed to 42.