Crazy Taxi for the PC

[DavidCPA]

I just got my gogamer 48 hour madness e-mail and noticed that Crazy Taxi is for sale on the PC. I read all 3 major gaming mags and didn't notice this one. If I remember correctly, this was a fairly fun game for the Dreamcast (and subsequently other consoles systems).

Anyone played the PC game yet?

-DavidCPA

[Anonymous]

It's not due out until October.

[DavidCPA]

Well, gogamer.com has it available for ship within 24 hours in a DVD hardcase.

http://www.gogamer.com/cgi-bin/GoGamer.storefront/3d37152a068a55c0273fd0fedee206af/Product/View/001CRAT

[asspennies]

Considering you already get Crazy Taxy with Grand Theft Auto 3, it seems like a waste to spend so much money on what is essentially a game with 20 minutes worth of playability before it becomes stale.

[Supertanker]

Plus, in Crazy Taxi you can't put a cap in the head of the impatient bastard that won't give you ten more seconds to get him to his destination. GTA3 is really like Crazy Taxi Driver. "You talkin' to me?"

[DavidCPA]

GTA3 is really like Crazy Taxi Driver.

Can you get a mohawk and pick up underage prostitutes?

-DavidCPA

[Xaroc]

Considering you already get Crazy Taxy with Grand Theft Auto 3, it seems like a waste to spend so much money on what is essentially a game with 20 minutes worth of playability before it becomes stale.

Exactly and you get reasonable controls and the rest of the GTA3 missions as well.

-- Xaroc

[Bub, Andrew]

GTA3 is really like Crazy Taxi Driver. "You talkin' to me?"

"One day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets."

[wumpus]

Considering you already get Crazy Taxy with Grand Theft Auto 3, it seems like a waste to spend so much money on what is essentially a game with 20 minutes worth of playability before it becomes stale.
You got it, brother. Although personally I don't see how spontaneously deciding to become a cabbie has to anything do with advancing in the crime world, but whatever.

[Lurker]

Considering you already get Crazy Taxy with Grand Theft Auto 3, it seems like a waste to spend so much money on what is essentially a game with 20 minutes worth of playability before it becomes stale.


GTA3 is Crazy Taxi Driver

Disagree with both points. The taxi subgame in GTA3 is really poor and worth nothing more than a few minutes novelty value. There's about 5 dropoff places per city, so it becomes repetitive ridiculously fast.

I'm not generally into games where you try to beat your top score, but I was addicted to Crazy Taxi for months because of this, and still load it up regularly. People who gave up on the gameplay initially should learn the various driving tricks in the "Crazy Box" part. There's nothing more satisfying than having control enough to stop your taxi on a dime, oriented precisely how you intended.

[Supertanker]

GTA3 is Crazy Taxi Driver ... Disagree with both points.

That's a joke, son! A flag waver! You're built too low! - Foghorn Leghorn


People who gave up on the gameplay initially should learn the various driving tricks in the "Crazy Box" part.

The problem with that is the directions in the manual for many of the tricks are wrong, and most fan pages on the web seem to be written by morons. It took me forever to figure out that you just had to hit Drive and the gas simultaneously to do a Crazy Dash, and not "First, release both the accelerator and brake. Then, just after shifting into Drive, press the accelerator." Crazy Taxi was the killer app that made me buy a DC, and I still gave up on it in frustration.

[Xaroc]

The problem with that is the directions in the manual for many of the tricks are wrong, and most fan pages on the web seem to be written by morons. It took me forever to figure out that you just had to hit Drive and the gas simultaneously to do a Crazy Dash, and not "First, release both the accelerator and brake. Then, just after shifting into Drive, press the accelerator." Crazy Taxi was the killer app that made me buy a DC, and I still gave up on it in frustration.

The REAL problem is that the designer was clearly hogging the crazy bong when the control scheme was designed. Who thinks having to do some sort of fighting game combo to be able to do an emergency brake turn is fun? Or to accelerate fast? The important part of the game is driving fast and crazy between points with passengers. They should have kept the focus on that and not implimented a drug induced control scheme.

-- Xaroc

Edited for bad tags.

[Alan Au]

Agreed. Some of those crazy box challenges are insane and require as much luck as skill. The "stop on a dime while turning" is a neat trick until you mess up near the end of the course and go careening off the narrow path into the water. Ack! That's the point where it transcends fun and enters into frustration.

- Alan