The story is told voiced texts between the sections or in voiceovers during the missions. Other goals are checkpoint races or tailing somebody.
The goals of the sections are varying, mostly the player has to win a race or stopping a criminal by crashing his car or thwarting him. The eight case has to be unlocked by beating most of the others in the highest difficulty. The campaign consists of 8 cases which are divided into several sections and are arranged in a linear way. Which one the player controls depends on the mission.
The main characters are the Semir Gerkhan and Chris Ritter, known from the series, and a novice policemen. Crash Time is an action-oriented racing game based on the German TV series Alarm für Cobra 11.