Back in the day, Crash was basically for Sony, what Mario and Sonic were to Nindento and Sega repectively. By the time Sonic started appearing on other systems, it was clear than no one cared about "representive games" so Crash appeared elsewhere too - in fact I think it's only mario who appears exclusively now - I don't think XBox has one.

I liked Part 2 the best, but Part one scores really high too - It's only let down being lack of skills, and having a really poor save system, but the game was good. I liked how in Part 1 the levels only got cloned once, in Part 2 there were a few more clones, but they were done sparingly. In Part 3, there were far too many clones - each "Warp Room" was basically "Castle, Bike, Water, Chase, Ride".

I loved playing as Ripper Roo, because I loved his maniacal laughter as I passed by the LOSERS.
That laughter is sampled out of a Disney movie - at least it is in the Platform Games (I'll have to check the racing).