Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled allows you to take control of many characters from the Crash Bandicoot series and other guests like Spyro the Dragon who will arrive later in the game. At the beginning of your career, you will only have access to a small selection of these characters. 8 will be available while all the others will have to be unlocked by fulfilling certain conditions specific to adventure mode, time trial or by stopping at the stands which is the shop that allows you to spend your hard-won Wumpa coins through the races you have completed.
We have listed below all the characters you can control from the beginning of the game and those you will need to unlock with the different conditions. The objectives are simple, to beat a particular character in adventure mode, to beat time trials or to spend a certain amount of Wumpa in the shop. Here’s how you can unlock all the playable characters in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled.
★ Note – Whether in adventure mode (story mode), local arcade mode or online, you will need to fulfill the various conditions listed below to use the characters / drivers of Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled that are blocked.
The characters available from the beginning of the game:
- Crash Bandicoot
- Dr. Neo Cortex
- Tiny Tiger
- Coco Bandicoot
- Dr. N. Gin
- Dingodile
- Polar
- Pura
The characters to unlock with a cheat code:
- Penta Penguin
☆ Note 2 – You can discover all the Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled cheat codes by going to the following page: Guide Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled the list of all cheat codes.
Adventure mode characters to unlock:
- Ripper Roo – You must beat Ripper Roo in adventure mode.
- Papu Papu – You must beat Papu Papu Papu in adventure mode.
- Komodo Joe – You must beat Komodo Joe in adventure mode.
- Pinstripe – You must beat Pinstripe in adventure mode.
- False Crash – You must win the purple gem in adventure mode.
- Nitros Oxide – You must defeat Nitros Oxide in adventure mode.
The characters in the time trial mode to unlock:
- N. Tropy – You must be able to beat all of N. Tropy’s times in time trial mode.
Characters to unlock with Wumpa coins in the shop (pit stop):
- Big Norm – unlocks at the pit stop (the shop) with? Wumpa.
- Crunch – unlocks at the pit stop (the shop) with ? Wumpa parts.
- Dingodle unlocks with the 1200-piece Wumpa summer pack in the shop.
- Fake Crash Cow-Boy unlocks with 2500 Wumpa coins in the shop.
- Geary unlocks with 1500 Wumpa coins in the shop.
- Krunk – unlocks at the pit stop (the shop) with ? Wumpa coins.
- N. Trance – unlocks with ? Wumpa coins in the shop.
- Nash – unlocks with ? Wumpa coins in the shop.
- Little Norm – unlocks at the pit stop (the shop) with ? Wumpa coins.
- Zam – unlocks with ? Wumpa pit stop in the shop.
- Zem – Geary unlocks with ? Wumpa coins in the shop.