Crash course: full-motion video drives Crash Bandicoot to a new level.

AFTER LEAPING his way to video-game stardom through six successful action games, Crash Bandicoot--the popular spiky-haired marsupial--is expanding his range as a character, appearing for the first time ever in full-motion video (FMV) throughout his latest game release, Crash Nitro Kart.

Recognizing that FMV sequences have become the new norm in state-of-the-art video games, Universal Interactive Studios felt that it had no choice but to ensure that this seventh title in the game series would be the first to contain cinematics. Aside from meeting soaring consumer expectations, the cinematics also provided Universal with the opportunity to reinvent the Crash ...