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Game Information
- Platform: Xbox
- PEGI Rating: Ages 12 and Over
- Media: Video Game
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Product Features
- Drive through day or night including the new location of Glitter Oasis, a wild Las Vegas style city
- Choose from 12 crazy drivers and their cabs, including 4 all-new cabbies
- Impress your customers with Crazy Drifting and Crazy Jumping for that extra tip
- Play from a range of Wild 'n' Crazy mini-games
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Product Description
Product Description
Crazy Taxi 3 serves up more of the classic gameplay that made the series so popular on the Dreamcast. High Roller takes place in "Glitter Oasis", which is modelled after Las Vegas. You take the roll of one of four new drivers and must try to deliver as many customers as possible to collect huge fares.
Crazy Taxi 3 also includes reworked versions of the original two levels from Crazy Taxi and Crazy Taxi 2--West Coast and Small Apple, each with their respective drivers. Also included is Crazy X mode in which you play through a slew of minigames for when you don't feel like tackling the main game.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
There can't be many people left in the world who don't know how Crazy Taxi plays - race around cartoon cities picking up bizarre customers and then driving as dangerously as possible to get them to their destinations for an extortionate fare - and Crazy Taxi 3 doesn't play with the formula one jot.
It's fast, furious and fun and incredibly addictive. Crazy Taxi's detractors will also say it's shallow and short-lived as the chief replay value is in beating your own high-score but they miss the point; it's not meant to be a cerebral bore - it's an arcade blast you can switch on for a quick twenty minutes and not have to worry about playing through to checkpoints or putting your brain in gear.
So what's good about the Xbox version? Well, West Coast from the original game is back - but with the added jump feature and a slightly expanded play area now it does play quite differently and is still the best designed city in the game so far. The new Vegas themed city Glitter Oasis also looks excellent in places and has big broad highways giving plenty of chance for some really unsafe driving. Some of the new lighting effects from buildings and headlights are, frankly, spectacular. The music is still good fun. The Crazy Box mini-games selection has been expanded and is even better. The handling is perhaps the slickest yet.
It's not all good news though. The game still (unforgivably) suffers from slowdown at times (particularly in Glitter Oasis). There's still no multi-player games. Plus, for some reason, the reverse gear is slow and sticky on this version. The Small Apple map doesn't stand up against the other two - even worse considering both Big Apple and Square City from previous games were much more fun and could have been included. Oh, and it's shallow, of course.
Having said that, if you're an arcade fan, it's great fun and you will come back to it - I was playing the Dreamcast original regularly up until I bought my Xbox. Given the paucity of half-decent games being released on the Xbox, it's a must-have really.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Well if you're a Crazy Taxi fan you won't go wrong with this one. It's got elements of the first two Crazy Taxi games contained within it. Firstly there is an improved version of the original West Coast level improved so that it can take full advantage of Crazy Taxi 3's jumping. Then you get one New York level taken from Crazy Taxi 2 and all new is Glitter Oasis based on Las Vegas. The only gripe I might have is why didn't they simply include the arcade level from the first Crazy Taxi as well and also the other Apple level from Crazy Taxi 2.
It might take a little bit of time to get used to the Xbox's controls when it comes to doing the Crazy Dash but once you've mastered it well enough to do it 4 times out of 5 you can try the Crazy X stages. Just like the Crazy Boxes and Crazy Pyramids of the previous Crazy Taxi games these levels require you to do crazy and almost impossible things with your taxi in return for gaining access to harder stages. At first it will seem impossible but once you're past a few levels you'll be amazed by the amount of skills it's taught that you can use on the main streets.
The only disappointment people will have the game is the lack of remarkable new content, but if want a definitive version of razy Taxi then get this, for the improved West Coast, for the Crazy X stages that have the biggest challenges yet seen on Crazy Taxi and are even more inventive and ridiculous than they were in Crazy Taxi 2. I would buy this game for Crazy X alone, if you want mini-games that test your gaming skills to the absolute max then Crazy Taxi 3 is for you!
It might take a little bit of time to get used to the Xbox's controls when it comes to doing the Crazy Dash but once you've mastered it well enough to do it 4 times out of 5 you can try the Crazy X stages. Just like the Crazy Boxes and Crazy Pyramids of the previous Crazy Taxi games these levels require you to do crazy and almost impossible things with your taxi in return for gaining access to harder stages. At first it will seem impossible but once you're past a few levels you'll be amazed by the amount of skills it's taught that you can use on the main streets.
The only disappointment people will have the game is the lack of remarkable new content, but if want a definitive version of razy Taxi then get this, for the improved West Coast, for the Crazy X stages that have the biggest challenges yet seen on Crazy Taxi and are even more inventive and ridiculous than they were in Crazy Taxi 2. I would buy this game for Crazy X alone, if you want mini-games that test your gaming skills to the absolute max then Crazy Taxi 3 is for you!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Unlike most Xbox games the graphics on Crazy Taxi resemble old arcade style games, however things are more complex than they might first appear. Each taxi driver has their own personality, and as you take passengers to their destinations the driver reacts according to how you are driving. Each game only lasts a few minutes so you can quickly swap between friends. Its a great party game that you will want to play over and over again.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
More of the Same, but that's not exactly a bad thing...
Crazy Taxi 3 is one of those games you'll keep coming back to when your out of new games to play. Like the first two, it's great for a quick half hour blast, but not exactly... Read more
Published on 22 July 2003 by M. James
Fun, for a while.
I bought this game expecting great things after being addicted to Crazy Taxi 2 on the DreamCast. At first, I was delighted, it was just as fast, just as fun, and had great... Read more
Published on 27 Jun 2003 by hfc_619
Not enough improvement here
The playability of the game remains and a couple of new crazy moves and maps added (and some rather fun mini games), however given the power of the XBOX this title does not... Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2002 by Colin
SAME OLD THING BUT NONE OR LESS STILL A CLASS GAME!
The game is the same as usual few tweaks in da graphics, loads of mini games, more drivers and 1 new level, but all the new stuff doesnt mean new engine or nothing its basically... Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2002 by "rob33@blueyonder.co.uk"
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