Crash Bandicoot: Warped (known in Europe as Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped[2][3]) is a platform game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. It was the third game in the Crash Bandicoot video game series following Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back.
The game's story takes place immediately after the events of the second game. The ruins of a space station called the Cortex Vortex owned by Doctor Neo Cortex, crash-lands on Earth and unleashes an evil entity known as Uka Uka, Aku Aku's evil younger twin brother, who joins with Cortex and the time-obsessed Doctor Nefarious Tropy and they plan to gather powerful Crystals that lay scattered across time and use their energy to enslave the Earth. The game follows the main characters Crash and Coco Bandicoot as they travel through time and prevent the villains from gathering the Crystals by collecting them themselves.
Crash Bandicoot: Warped was universally praised by critics, who noted a high quality in many areas, including gameplay, graphics and audio. The game went on to sell 7.13 million units as of 2002, and thus is the eighth best-selling PlayStation video game of all time. In Japan, the game surpassed the sales of its two predecessors and became the first non-Japanese PlayStation title to sell over one million units in the country. A remastered version was included in the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy collection for the PlayStation 4 in June 2017.
