Crash Tag Team Racing - General Differences

The demo begins with a montage, much like in the final version. The car shown at the beginning is the same (Le Chaux), but the music that accompanies it is from Rings of Uranus (specifically if you're on the last lap and far behind). It then shows a different logo from the final version and and cuts to a montage of prototype scenes, with a slightly different rendition of the main Rings of Uranus theme. This trailer can be seen here.

The title screen sports the old logo's font for the words "TAG TEAM RACING", along with other minor differences. More noticeably, the music played here is an early version of Fossil Fuel Injection.

• Aku Aku used to have more than just a cameo in Tiki Turbo. He'd appear in the pause menu and at the end of a race.
• Some fonts have different colors.
• A different "Finished!" font is used.

• Instead of the crossed checkered flags, the word "START" is shown at the beginning of each race, with an appropriate style for each track.
• Pasadena's car in the demo is her PSP-exclusive car from the final version.

The character select screen is plain and greenish. The car appears to the right of the character instead of taking his/her place in the middle. The circle around each icon is larger.

The race HUD is a bit different and more confusing. The speed-o-meter is the little blue bar on the bottom right, and the health is actually the big bar that's usually the speed-o-meter. The boost meter looked different too.

If you switch seats when clashed, the AI character will sometimes sit on the side of the car.

When clashed, the L1 button lets you zoom in if you're the gunner. This feature isn't in the final version.

The Fire Guy power-up turns green when thrown.

By the time the demo was released, the spinning animation wasn't yet added to the Classic Crash skin. This makes Crash lose his costume while spinning.

The frame rate in the demo is twice as high as in the final PlayStation 2 version (similar to The Wrath of Cortex and Twinsanity. This makes the demo look much nicer and smoother.

Cortex's tier 1 car, the Imperium, has a different backside. It makes it harder to see Cortex.

In the demo handed out at E3, the selectable speeds are called "Fast", "Faster" and "Fastest", as opposed to the final version's "Normal", "Fast" and "Insane". Interestingly, the demo that came with the Official PlayStation 2 Magazine had the final names, which seems to be the only difference between both demos.

The sound effects are the same for the most part, but the car engines sounded different.

Cars jump a lot higher when they go off bumps in the road.

When a car lands on the ground, it doesn't make the metal sound effect or sparks under it.

The final lap music is always the bad version unless you're in first place, as opposed to the final version where the good version plays even if you're in second place. It also plays during the second lap.

You can always hear cars exploding, regardless of how distant they are.

This screen is shown once the demo runs out of time. The box art has the final logo, but Crash and Cortex have different facial expressions.

The loading screen as it appeared in the demo.

The jump pads used to be brighter and didn't make a sound effect when jumped on.

The shark missile used to look more like an actual, live shark.

The power-up icons in races all used to look like those found in Astro Land.

The piano, cow, and submarine power-ups all have the wrong icons. The piano and submarine have the turbo boost icon, and the cow has the piano one.

Several voice lines present in the demo were removed for the final version, including both playable characters and NPCs, in and outside races. Most notably, an Indian woman's voice was completely removed.

Excluding Pasadena's, all of the turrets make different sounds from the final version.

When Crash falls out of bounds, the screen doesn't turn black and Crash immediately goes back to where he was last standing.