- Based on the smash hit driving game for the Dreamcast.
- Drive a taxi and deliver fares around town for cash points.
- Game is set in an accurate, yet comic, version of San Francisco.
- Feel free to ignore traffic laws, pedestrian safety, and property damage.
- Follow your own best way with no predetermined track or traditional boundaries.
Product Description
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In Crazy Taxi, you play a cabbie in an accurate yet comic
version of San Francisco. As you might expect from such a game,
your job is to identify possible customers in the crowd (known as
"fares"), pick them up and get them to their destination as soon
as possible. That's the Taxi part. The Crazy part is that traffic
laws, pedestrian safety and property damage are all negotiable.
Simply put, the game rewards offensive--rather than
defensive--driving, and that's what makes it so compulsively fun.
Also, unlike most race games, there are no traditional boundaries
or predetermined tracks for you to follow. The game allows you to
follow your own best way... even if that means driving over
fences or under water.
.co.uk Review
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The arcade version of Crazy Taxi was a massive hit, with its
high speed driving and pounding soundtrack. Sega ported it over
to the Dreamcast where it sold by the bucket load, and now it's
available for the PS2. And it's superb. The of the game is
simple: drive a ludicrously fast taxi and make oodles of cash as
quickly as possible.
Taking one of four drivers, each with their own skill set, the
player needs to locate and pick up potential passengers, all of
whom are identified by the appearance of a coloured dollar symbol
above their head. From that point on it's a race against time
through crowded streets to get the passenger to their destination
while picking up y tips for speed on the way. Tips can be
increased through the execution of stupidly dangerous stunts and
the cunning use of the short cuts and back alleys the game
offers.
There are three major modes of play, offering the cityscape of
the arcade original, a world created especially for the console
versions of the game, and the oddly named Crazy Box mode, which
sets a number of challenges ranging from high-speed ski-jumps to
water balloon popping--an interesting if slightly unusual
addition.
Graphically, Crazy Taxi is a treat. Big, bold vehicles fairly
rocket around the streets of the sprawling city, which has
environments ranging from shopping malls to freeways and beaches.
Everything shifts along at a fairly steady 60 fps and the only
gripe is the pop-up at long distance, which is irritating but
doesn't ultimately doesn't affect gameplay. Sound is excellent,
with some thumping skate-punk tunes provided by the Offspring (
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backchat from the cab drivers and their passengers. Prolonged
play may take the edge off this hilarity, but only time will
tell.
What's sadly missing is any kind of multi-player facility. Crazy
Taxi is strictly single player. This isn't really an issue
(especially after closing time when the living room's packed with
prospective Travis Bickles all patiently waiting a turn), but the
ability for a two player Vs mode would have been the icing on the
cake.
This game certainly isn't a Gran Turismo or a Formula 1 2001 (
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simulation and the real world never gets a look-in. Instead, this
is pure, blissful arcade entertainment.
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Manufacturer's Description
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Crazy Taxi is a mad race against the clock--and the traffic. As
any of four fearless cabbies, players are driven by a single
goal: to rack up the mega-bucks in fares and tips before their
shift ends. Drivers pick up passengers and take them to their
destination by any way possible. It's a comic cab opera of
collisions and decisions where courtesy takes a back seat to
coin.
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