The game's controls were well received. The D-Pad Destroyer of "GamePro" praised the controls as "nearly-perfect" and explained that "the transparent controls allow you to concentrate on racing and blasting your opponents, and so the races are faster, more fluid and more fun." Johnny Liu of "GameRevolution" concluded that the controls "feel very natural, with an emphasis on maintaining speed rather than fighting lousy controls." However, Joe Ottoson of All Game Guide said that the inability to reconfigure the controls was "the only real drawback to "Crash"'s presentation."