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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5100 in Video Games
• Brand: Acclaim Studios Cheltenham
• Released on: 2001-05-16
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platform: PlayStation2
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Features

• Choose form on eof 4 different drivers, and cruise the city in you cab looking for fares
• Rack up points by getting your fares there as fast as possible -- get em there faster by performing crazy stunts
• Start weaving between cars without scratching up your car, do jumps, or sliding around corners to get the fare there faster
• Play in 3, 5 or 10 minute rounds
• Try out Crazy Box, the mode that makes things harder & crazier as you go

Amazon.com Product Description
In Crazy Taxi, you play a cabbie in an accurate, yet highly 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" in the lingo), pick them up, and get them to their destination as quickly 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 racing games, there are no traditional boundaries or predetermined tracks for you to follow. The game allows you to follow your own path... even if that means driving over fences or under water.

Amazon.co.uk
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 bucketload, and now it's available for the PS2. 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.

Taking one of four drivers, each with his or her own skill set, the player needs to locate and pick up potential passengers, all of whom are identified by the appearance of a colored dollar symbol above their heads. From that point on it's a race against time through crowded streets to get the passengers to their destinations while picking up healthy monetary tips for speed along the way. You can increase tips 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 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 frames per second, and the only gripe with the graphics is the pop-up at long distance, which is irritating but doesn't ultimately affect gameplay. The sound is excellent, with some thumping skate-punk tunes provided by The Offspring and friends, and comic back chat 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 multiplayer facility. Crazy Taxi is strictly a single-player experience. This isn't really an issue (especially when the living room's packed with prospective Travis Bickles, all patiently waiting a turn), but a two-player vs. mode would have been the icing on the cake.

This game certainly isn't a serious ride like Gran Turismo 3. 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

Customer Reviews

A Great Arcade-Style Game!!!
Crazy Taxi is basically a driving game in which you play as one of four different taxi drivers trying to rack-up the most money in fares as possible. You pick someone up, drive them to their destination, drop them off, and repeat. Bonus money is given for getting a passenger to thier destination quickly and for performing trick maneuvers along the way. Fare money is lost if you don't arrive at the passenger's destination in the allotted time.

This game is almost an exact copy of the arcade game. In addition to the city in the arcade game, you also have another city to drive thru (recklessly). You also have a bunch of simplistic mini-games (called Crazy Box) which allow you to fine-tune your skills. You can play by the same rules as the arcade game (where playtime varies depending on your skill-level) or you can play a 3, 5, or 10 minute game. Individual and overall high scores are recorded.

My wife and I find this game highly addictive. It's a great game to play when you don't have a lot of time (or don't want to do a lot of thinking). I love my Nascar Heat 2002 and Twisted Metal: Black games (both of which I highly recommend), but they require a longer playtime and I rarely have that much time to sit and play them.

The only changes that I would like them to make to the game are:

1) Remove the vehicle pop-up. It's weird to look down a long stretch of road seeing no cars then all of sudden they're there (this does not affect gameplay in any way).

2) I should be allowed to kick a passenger out of my car once I reach the point where I know that I'm not going to get them to their destination in time (and lose their fare). After all, they see to have no problem jumping out of my speeding taxi when their time's up.

Again...this is an arcade-style game. Don't expect this game to feel like a realistic driving simulation--that's not what the manufacturer intended it to be. I'm not sure why some people get bored with it so easily. We've played for several hours and still haven't moved on to the second city or completed the Crazy Box mini-games yet. I don't see myself getting bored with it anytime soon. There's always that high-score to beat and new tricks to master... If you're concerned about the longevity of the game, rent it first and play for 30 to 60 minutes (try the 10 minute game) before buying it.

This is a great game!!! Give it a try!!!

Just like Crazy Taxi
Yes, it is true. There are no updates to this game from the DC(Dreamcast) version, in graphics, sound, music, etc. But it is still nice to have a port from the DC of one of the most addictive and funnest video games to our very own Playstation 2. For those who experienced problems, like the background scenery suddenly disappearing, I think they had a defective copy. I never experienced such problems, and the game ran pretty smoothly. Such is the case for some other people who purchased Crazy Taxi.

The only thing that gets slightly annoying is that your car skids a bit. I don't know, maybe it adds to the playability of the game. Otherwise I think Acclaim did a good job porting the game from DC to PS2.

Frankly, I enjoyed this game, even though its exactly the same as it was on Dreamcast. It's still as fun, as addictive, as crazy as it was a year ago.

Wahoo! A good cure for road rage!
Crazy Taxi is a very fun take on the typical driving-type game. Fairly easy to control, fairly simple to master, this game is fun, fun, fun! You choose one of four taxi-driver characters and start picking passengers up and delivering them to their destinations. Don't worry if other cars are in your way, just bump into them, or better yet, launch yourself off a ramp to get ahead of them (or, if you think it might get you there quicker, try driving underwater or over grass). The punk sound track adds to the frenetic race to get people where they want to go in a San Francisco-like environment complete with recognizable retail stores (Levi-Strauss, Tower Records, KFC... hmm, product placement?).

Crazy Taxi includes several play modes that have different rules, depending on which you choose. There is also a training/practice mode that is quite challenging.

Parents of young kids: some of the passengers are verbally abusive if you don't get them where they want to go, and some cursing can be heard.