Crazy Taxi

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   May 25, 2001
11 out of 11 found this review helpful

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!   September 8, 2003
yarden (portland, or)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful

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.


Want to release some stress? Play this game!   December 28, 2002
S. Mills (Los Angeles)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

Man, do I love going home to this game after a long hard day at work. I am not a gory-violent person and Grand Theft Auto is not my style. I'd rather pull up Crazy Taxi on the ol' PS2 and go at it. You can drive all around the city and just have a lot of fun knocking things over and having people running and screaming to get out of your way. You can drive into the ocean and just idle on the sea floor while the tropical fish swim around your car. You can collide with cable cars, drive by Kentucky Fried Chicken and knock all the diners off their outside tables, drive up the front lawn of a massive church and see the minister run for his life, or you can just wreak major havoc on the city traffic. No one will die, they manage to move out of your way fast enough...bust just barely!

Not an overly-sophisticated game, and it does get repititious if you take it seriously...but it is a hell of a lot of fun otherwise. Even better when you have people over to your house and you all compete to see who can rack up the highest fares in 3, 5, or ten minutes. Hysterically funny with a bunch of people, but a let-down if you're alone...unless you're stressed like me and you need to let it out with some good, clean fun. No blood and guts here, folks.

... Like I said, don't take it too seriously.

HAVE FUN!


CRAZY TAXI RULES!!! ;)   May 29, 2002
7 out of 8 found this review helpful

THIS GAME IS THE BOMB! It's like the best arcade game ever since Pac-Man. I live in Brooklyn New York and there is this place there called "Circle 2." Well, it's a video store and there I played Mervel Vs. Capcom. It got pretty boring soon so as I left I saw this racing. I played it for several minutes and as soon as you know it, my 3 bucks in quarters were gone in record breaking time!
When my dad bought me PS2 the only game in my head was CRAZY TAXI, CRAZY TAXI! Then the next thing I knew, he bought me Crrazzyy Taxxiii. It was soooo fun I played it 7 hours straight. I almost played it for 8 hours but my mom said no more. But there' always tomorrow.
Hey to all dem people thinking of getting Crazy Taxi, but it! It's worth it! Trrrusst ME! ;)