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If you think it's hard to flag down a cab in a big city, try driving one in Sega's zany straight-from-the-arcade port of
f1i Crazy Taxi
f0i0 . If you're one of the teeming fans who eagerly played
f1i Crazy Taxi
f0i0 in the arcade at a buck a pop, then this game is a must-buy, if only from a purely economic standpoint. Even those who don't know the difference between
f1i Crazy Taxi
f0i0 and the long-running TV series
f1i Taxi
f0i0 will immediately recognize the appeal of this game. In fact, this game is so impressive and addictive that it should easily convince a whole new wave of buyers to purchase a Sega Dreamcast.
What's so hot about
f1i Crazy Taxi
f0i0 ? For starters, the graphics sport the most impressive re-creation of a living city ever seen in a video game. The level of detail is astounding and never ceases to surprise the player as block after unique block speeds by. The city is a distilled version of San Francisco with some landmarks and neighborhoods left intact. Making it seem all the more real are apparent product placements of real-world retail locations such as KFC, Tower Records, and Pizza Hut. And just about everything you see on the screen is interactive: boxes, phone booths, and mailboxes topple when bumped or smashed, pedestrians leap and tumble out of your path, and the myriad of traffic attempts to avoid your erratic high-speed antics. While some driving games brag about a lack of boundaries, this one delivers--players drive on the ocean floor, off the second floor of a parking garage, through parks, and down stairs. A helpful hovering arrow points drivers in the correct direction, but you can truly drive wherever you want at any time, making for tons of replay value.
While the game is a direct port from the arcade game of the same name, there's plenty more depth in the home version. In addition to the city that appears in the coin-op version, the Dreamcast version also includes an entirely new city.
f1i Crazy Taxi
f0i0 includes a trunk-load of mini-games that help to teach drivers how to perform the special speed boosts and maneuvers in the game.
Though this game would be plenty exciting without any sounds at all, it has an adrenaline-pumping soundtrack supplied by punk crossover bands the Offspring and Bad Religion, as well as some good, if sometimes monotonous, dialogue between the driver and the passengers.
f1i --Jeff Young
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f2b Pros:
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cf0 'a5 Wonderful, realistic graphics
'a5 Easy to get into, and full of many long hours of addictive play
'a5 Even more to offer than the fantastic arcade game upon which this is based
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f2b Cons:
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cf0 'a5 On very few occasions players will encounter some graphic slowdown
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| uuid: |
E3BF34CB-81EF-11D9-88C4-000A959D0BD2" |
| upc: |
010086510355 |
| title: |
Crazy Taxi |
| purchase date: |
18-02-2005 |
| publisher: |
Sega of America, Inc. |
| published: |
04-02-2000 |
| price: |
$49.99 |
| platform: |
Sega Dreamcast |
| net Rating: |
4.22 |
| last lookup time: |
130453131.7491724 |
| genre: |
Video Games
Racing
Cars
Sega Dreamcast
DC
Flying |
| esrbrating: |
Teen |
| edition: |
CD-ROM |
| created: |
130453130.2266316 |
| asin: |
B0000488VP
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