Sega Crazy Taxi

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $19.99

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PC Gamer (1-year)

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Great Sega game! [Posted on 2003-12-04]
Crazy Taxi, the smash arcade hit finally comes to PC. Weave your way through crowded streets. Accross sidewalks and even under water in a wild and frantic race to deliver passengers on time. In Crazy Taxi for PC time is money and only the craziest of cabby's earns their fare! Massive, interactive courses will keep you behind the wheel of the cab for hours. There are three types of games that you can play: Arcade, Crazy Box, and the good old original. Also there are 4 unique cab drivers to choose from. also a rocking soundtrack with awesome new songs. No one will be dissapointed by this great game!

There's a Reason It's Not Called Physics Taxi [Posted on 2004-01-30]
Crazy Taxi is a very fun rendition of a very fun arcade game. In addition to the arcade map, the software also includes an original map and a set of tutorial mini-challenges. The music is catchy and gameplay is addictive - so much so that it becomes tempting to chase pedestrians off the sidewalk in real life after playing the game a few times.

Despite its enjoyability, gameplay grows repetitive fairly quickly. Individual fares always seek the same destinations so you have to make a conscious effort to not play the same game over and over again. As the title of this review suggests, the laws of physics are neither accurately nor consistently modeled in the game: sometimes ramming a city bus will knock you back half a block, sometimes it will bring you to a dead stop, sometimes you'll keep going with no adverse effect at all. Granted, it's best to avoid obstacles in general, but not knowing the outcome ahead of time can be frustrating.

One very nice feature is the ability to play for a set period of time (3, 5, or 10 minutes) as well as arcade-style (where game time increases for each successful cab ride). If you only have a few minutes to play it's nice to set the timer for 5 minutes and not worry so much about the timer. Unfortunately, the game can take awhile to load (due to unskippable production company vanity-screens); if you only have 5 minutes to play, plan on playing the 3 minute game once the software finishes loading.

All in all, Crazy Taxi a very fun ride (however, after hitting your fourth city bus your passengers may think differently).

Crazy Taxi Is SO COOL!!!!! [Posted on 2004-12-05]
Crazy Taxi is the absoloute best game I have ever played! It is super GOOD!

Video Card Incompatibilities [Posted on 2005-06-14]
We have 4 PCs, with video cards from 3 different manufacturers (ATI, Matrox, nVidia), and Crazy Taxi is only compatible with one of the cards (which happens to be my work PC). This information is only available on the CD-ROM. Very frustrating.

Great arcade game [Posted on 2005-08-03]
I have never played the orginal crazy taxi for the dreamcast, so I dedcided to try it on the pc. The gameplay is addicting and what you do is try to get people to their desination as fast as you can. If you are fast to get a small time bonus and extra money. The places you can go are different and unique, but the game has you following the same path most of the times. For example in arcade mode you always drive to the cable car stop first, no matter who you get for a customer. Gameplay does get repetitive, but its still fun seeing if you can get more combos and money by passing cars, doing crazy jumps and drifts.

Also the framerates are okay, sometimes my screen stutters, but it doesn't effect the game. For people who do not have dreamcasts and have never played this game, you ough't to check it out.

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