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Game Information
- Platform: GameCube
- BBFC Rating:
Suitable for 12 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 12. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 12 years of age or over. - Media: Video Game
Product Features
- 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
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
The arcade version of Crazy Taxi was a massive hit, with its high speed driving and pounding soundtrack. Creators, Sega, ported it over to the Dreamcast where it sold by the bucket-load, and now it's available for the PS2, the Xbox and the GameCube. And it's superb. The aim of the game is simple. Drive a ludicrously fast taxi and make oodles of cash as quickly as possible--easy!
Choosing from 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 healthy tips for speed on the way. Tips can be increased through the execution of stupidly dangerous stunts and the cunning use of the shortcuts 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 60fps and the only gripe is the pop-up at long distance, which is irritating but doesn't ultimately affect gameplay. Sound is excellent, with some thumping skate-punk tunes provided by The Offspring and friends plus comedy 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 2002. There's not even a hint of simulation and the real world never gets a look-in. Instead, this is pure, blissful arcade entertainment. --Chris Russell
Product Description
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.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Video Game
THIS HAS GOT TO BE ONE OF THE BEST GAMES OF ALL TIME! Sure, it's only good once you've learnt how to master it, sure there's no real way to complete the driviving part of it (you can complete the CRAZY box section), sure it's not everyone's cup of tea as it has no mario, and none of the taxis have hidden machine guns on them (if you find on eplease email me at 3628@lgs.leeds.sch.uk), sure it has none of these, but who needs any of them when you've got CRAZY Taxi!!! You can go around town, beating your personal best, staying on for as long as possible on arcade mode (anyone else got more than twenty minutes?) and making the highest combo you can (Combo30 anyone?). Don't read other reviews, READ MINE!!!
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:PlayStation
This game is fast and furious and certainly lives up to its name. The game play is superb and is the only driving game to date that keeps me coming back for more. As a cab driver the aim is simple drive as fast as possible in the style of a complete maniac to keep your passengers happy. Jumping over car transporter ramps, driving across busy parks, shopping malls and the like adds points to your score and time to that ticking clock! Learn to pull off crazy drifts and the crazy dash cuts down on your journey time and ups the tips from your passengers. Overall the game is excellent, the only draw back is the city and passengers can become a little annoying, the game play more than makes up for this though. Sega may have a dying console but they certainly know how to make original and entertaining games, I cannot wait to see what else Sega have lined up for the PS2 console.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:PlayStation
I love this game... it may be a really simple theme, there aren't levels as such, you can pretty much do what you want, and that's the beauty. The thing that keeps you playing is that you want to beat your own score, I feel. Then when you're nice and relaxed, you attempt the Crazy Box missions!! How hard are they?? Well, some are pretty easy, but there are some I still can't do, took me ages to jump the ramp on one of them, and still not completed them all!! But then who wants a game that's too easy? The graphics are pretty good, but the sound lets it down... the theme song is good, the Offspring, but it does tend to get repetitive if you've been playing it a while. Also you end up knowing what each character is going to say when they get in your car... so that's really the only down side!! Otherwise great!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
information hazy
i played tis game at uni like ten years ago and i remember it being great and when i realised i could play on the Wii i thought brilliant, so i bought it. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Helen L. Murphy
A brilliant arcade game
I bought this game when I 1st bought the PS2 and I still go back to it now. It's one of the best arcade games around. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Ben Nicholson
Crazy Indeed
Bought this for my 7 year old son on the recommendation of a friend. Not disappointed - he loves it!
Published on 29 Jun 2009 by Dina
Crazy Taxi
I dug out this game and started playing it and it's great.
You pick a Taxi driver and pick up passengers and you try not to crash into anyone or anything. Read more
You pick a Taxi driver and pick up passengers and you try not to crash into anyone or anything. Read more
Published on 16 Jun 2008 by T. Shields
craziest taxi ride ever!
This is a great fun driving game where you do loads of missions within your taxi making sure you get your customers to the correct destination over coming certain obstacles that... Read more
Published on 9 Mar 2007 by Mark
Average taxi...
Crazy Taxi was released in the arcades some years ago, then made into a Sega Dreamcast game and this is the ported over version to the Gamecube. Read more
Published on 28 July 2006 by London Eskimo
CRAZY TAXI !!!!! WOW!!!!
This game is highly addictive. it takes a little while to learn how to control the taxi proerly for example knowing the right sequence & timing to make the taxi boost. Read more
Published on 7 Aug 2005 by "david_bewick"
Quick Finish
This is not one of the best games to hit the 'Cube, not by a long shot. I bought this game after having a lot of fun on the arcade version of the game. Read more
Published on 7 April 2005 by "eyceking"
Buy Something Else!
This game looks like it belongs in a 1980's chip shop. The visuals are very basic, but this is only to fit in with the gameplay. Read more
Published on 12 Nov 2004 by "a_plonker"
Crazy Taxi
Back in 1998, Sega came up with an ingenious idea : make a game about taxis. While at first it may sound a lame concept, stick with it because its a good, addictive arcade... Read more
Published on 20 Feb 2004 by Mr. A. P. Cox
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