About as middle of the road as Crash gets. I think he controls wonderfully here, arguably maybe a little better than even Crash 4, and when the game is pure unadulterated platforming, it has its moments. But there are way too many vehicle segments, a lot of which are genuinely awful, and even some of the regular platforming levels have issues, such as enemy placement. It's so easy to just walk around enemies whereas in other Crash games you kinda have to deal with them.
Nonetheless it's 10 bucks on the Xbox 360 store and there are worse ways to spend a tenner.