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In the aftermath of ''[[Crash Bandicoot 2 Cortex Strikes Back|Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back]]'', an evil elemental mask named Uka Uka is freed from his underground prison, and is revealed to have been the true mastermind behind Dr. Neo Cortex's schemes. Seeing as Crash had already collected all the crystals and gems on Earth and the planet is left without a proper power source for Cortex to use for his next scheme, Uka Uka decides to recruit a scientist by the name of N. Tropy to create the Time Twister, a time machine which Cortex and Uka Uka can use to retrieve the crystals from past and future eras. With the help of Uka Uka's counterpart, Aku Aku, Crash and Coco race to the Time Twister to collect the crystals again before Cortex and Uka Uka get a chance to do so.
 
Considered by critics and fans at the time to be one of the greatest platformers on the [[Play Station]], '''''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped''''' built upon the strengths of the first two games and added more vehicle-based levels (with the player taking control of a bi-plane, jetski or tiger at any given time), new abilities that could be earned by beating the game's bosses, and a Time Trial mode to keep players coming back to the levels to see how fast they could go.
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=== Tropes Used In This Game: ===
* [[Action Girl]]: Coco joins Crash in the gameplay for the first time. In practice, this means she tackles most of the [[Unexpected Genre Change]] levels, but still, riding a tiger, a jetski, a space fighter, and a ''[[World War One]] plane'' is a definite step-up from being a simple computer hacker genius from the last game. See also [[Took a Level In Badass]].
* [[Advancing Wall of Doom]]: The [[Everything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs|triceratops]] in Dino Might. Yes, a ''triceratops''.
* [[Airborne Mook]]: Floating carpet enemies in Hang 'Em High drift eerily in your path.
* [[Anti -Frustration Features]]: As with the prequels, if you start losing too many lives, the game takes pity on you and you respawn with an Aku-Aku mask for protection. Lose a bit too much times, and you'll get a nearby crate turn into checkpoint when it originally shouldn't be one. It should be noticed that such policies never work during time trials, however...
* [[Arch Enemy]]: Crash has Dr. Cortex, but now there is also the rivalry between sentient voodooo mask twin brothers Aku Aku and Uka Uka.
** Coco also develops a rivalry with N. Gin, Cortex's right hand, starting with this game.
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* [[Cyborg]]: N.Gin makes a comeback. The lab assistants are revealed to be this in the secret Warp Room.
* [[Death Course]]: Because whether you're in a medieval village or the futuristic Neo York levels, [[Everything Trying to Kill You|everything's trying to kill you.]]
* [[Death Is a Slap Onon The Wrist]]: And incredibly funny, believe it or not. The game is famous for its many hilarious [[The Many Deaths of You]], some of which aren't actually deaths.
* [[Defeat Byby Modesty]]: Getting hit by a scimitar in the medieval Arabia levels will cut Crash's pants off, causing him to shamefully slink away while attempting to cover his [[Goofy Print Underwear|pink polka-dot boxers]].
* [[Degraded Boss]]: Tiny Tiger is relegated to first boss, like Ripper Roo before him. Now he can also be hurt by Crash's spin and jump attacks, which were useless against him in the previous one. [[Armor Is Useless]], indeed.
* [[Demoted to Dragon]]: Dr. Neo Cortex. See [[The Dragon]].
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* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Tiny has improved slightly from the previous game - not only can he speak, and speak eloquently enough to warn Crash (albeit in [[Hulk Speak]]), but his tactics are no longer restricted to just leaping after Crash; instead, he tries to spear him on the end of his trident, and when that fails, he releases hoards of lions on you. Even when he [[Tactical Suicide Boss|falls]] for the [[Puzzle Boss|same trick three times]], he gets notably faster in pulling out his trident as the battle progresses.
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: Fake Crash appears as in three levels after 100% completion.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs]]: The prehistoric levels.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Penguins]]: A penguin is taking a stroll through the Ice Age arena when Crash battles Dingodile. Though identical to the enemy penguins in [[Crash Bandicoot 2 Cortex Strikes Back]], this one is just an [[Innocent Bystander]]. This might even be an [[Early-Bird Cameo]], if it's the same penguin who appeared in the [[Crash Team Racing]] spinoff.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Spinning]]: Crash gets an upgrade to his [[Spin Attack]] once he defeats N. Tropy. Not only can he spin for much longer, making for massive damage in some levels, but he can even glide with it if he spins at the top of a high jump. Combine this with the [[Double Jump]] upgrade and the result is pretty impressive.
* [[Everything's Even Worse Withwith Sharks]]: While Crash explores the ocean bottom, sharks are patrolling certain areas and if he blunders into one, it eats him. Coco also has to avoid sharks patrolling near the surface during her jet ski levels. Sharks were originally billed to appear as enemies in the first Crash game, but they were cut from the final product and had to wait for this game and its appropriate water levels before they were introduced.
* [[Everything's Worse Withwith Bears]]: Averted with Polar, who is Crash's friend. He only makes two appearances in the entire game - the beginning and the end.
* [[Excited Show Title]]
* [[Exploding Barrels]]: TNT and Nitro crates.
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* [[Mad Scientist]]: Cortex, N.Tropy and N.Gin all qualify for this in some capacity.
* [[The Many Deaths of You]]: Improved over ''2'' ''a lot''. So much that you're more likely to see Crash being split to halves, kissed by a frog, scrapped to atums, blown up like a balloon, bashed by a club right into the camera's direction and lots of death scenes like that, rather than him turning into angel.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Dingodile is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]], a half-dingo, half-crocodile hybrid. [[Mix-and-Match Critters]], however, usually don't wield flamethrowers. N. Tropy's name is a pun on the word entropy, a physics concept which means, in layman's terms, disorder, especially in relation to the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
* [[Mook Maker]]: Crash gets a glimpse of one in the secret Warp Room.
* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: N. Tropy is the third in the trio of Doctors.
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* [[Pyromaniac]]: Dingodile enjoys toasting things with that monstrous flamethrower of his. So much so, in fact, that he chuckles when he aims it at a passing penguin, the sadist.
{{quote| "Bring out the butter; I'm gonna make TOAST!"}}
* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: Where did Aku Aku come from? Granted, he was technically present in the past games, but only as a gameplay feature. As a speaking role, this is pretty much his debut.
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Averted with the cute baby T. rex in the dinosaur levels. Played straight with the pterosaurs and the triceratopses in those same levels.
* [[Save Game Limits]]: The game can only be saved at the Warp Room load/save screen, but if you pause the game you can quit a level so that you can reach any [[Save Point]].
* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: Uka Uka, of course, since he's the [[Evil Twin]] of Aku Aku.
* [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]]: Uka Uka was sealed away in a temple on one of the three islands a long time ago to prevent him from wreaking havoc on the world. He is released at the beginning of the game, by no less than a falling piece of Cortex's space station, which via a series of events was destroyed with Crash's help last game. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]].
* [[Sea Mine]]: Blue bombs with skull and crossbones markings on them are floating around in the jet ski levels.
* [[Secret Level]]: There are three secret levels and two secret level sidepaths which can only be accessed by a secret Warp Room, which itself can't be accessed except via a secret platform.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: Subverted - the ending pretty much makes it near improbable for the main villains to ever return, but return they did. Since none of the [[PSPlay Station 2]] sequels address this point, it's pretty much left to [[Wild Mass Guessing]]. If you write ''them'' off as [[Fanon Discontinuity]], on the other hand, then this is the canonical ending of the main series, with ''[[Crash Team Racing]]'' as a spinoff.
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Tomb Raider|Tomb Wader]], anyone?
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Lessened between Crash and Coco as both are now [[Action Hero]] bandicoots, and Coco's genius with computers is not referenced. Aku Aku and Uka Uka, however, are polar opposites.
* [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World]]: The Ice Age arena where you fight Dingodile. That's it. It's not even a very big level. Given the heavy prominence of snowy levels in the previous game, this comes as quite a stark contrast with [[Crash Bandicoot 2 Cortex Strikes Back]].
* [[Space Zone]]: The future levels and the fourth boss battle.
* [[Spanner in Thethe Works]]: {{spoiler|Crash derails the villains' plans by simply having beaten up Tropy earlier, which lets the time machine go havoc.}}
* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: While Crash fights Cortex, Aku Aku keeps Uka Uka busy by dueling with him. Their battle can actually kill Crash if he gets caught in the crossfire, and is infact the main obstacle of the fight.
* [[Super Drowning Skills]]: Even though he can swim (with a heavy oxygen pack), Crash will still drown instantly in non-deep-sea levels.
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** It got a second life in ''[[Crash Bash]]'', where it's used a lot; even the [[Final Boss]] uses it.
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: Naughty Dog sure like their level names.
* [[You Fool!]]: Uka Uka, especially after the third boss battle.
* [[You Have Failed Me]]: Subverted: Cortex looks like he's in for one of these at the beginning, but since it was Cortex who indirectly freed him, Uka Uka spares his life.
{{quote| '''Uka Uka''': But, since your bumbling has managed to set me free, I am feeling... generous.
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