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Sega has many arcade hits in
their 30 years in the Videogaming market, from
Hang On, Outrun, Virtua Fighter, Daytona USA,
Virtua Cop, and their most recent hit, Crazy
Taxi. Based on the Naomi arcade machine, this is
was one of the hottest arcade games since Fall
1999. Most people wondered if Sega will bring the
game to the Dreamcast. And at the Tokyo Games
Show, Sega answered their prayers by announcing
the game for release around February.
I loved the arcad version of
the game, everytime I went to my local mall, I
would go to the arcade center to play this game.
Sometimes I had to wait in line for a chance to
play the game, sometimes the machine was empty.
But one thing's straight, everyone thought the
game rocked. Without a doubt, this was the most
played game at the arcade center. Don't think
this was the only good game at the arcade center.
People preffered playing this over, Tekken Tag
Tournament, Soul Calibur, Marvel vs. Capcom,
House the Dead 2 and Power Stone.
I got the DC version the day
it came out, on February 2, and I don't regret
it. The game is arcade perfect, with a whole new
course and about 9 mini-games. Sega got all the
licenses from Levi's, Fila, Tower Records, and
some other companies. They even added the
Offspring and Bad Religon music during the
gameplay like on the arcades.
The gameplay is sort of like
Driver, but instead of picking up criminals and
driving them to their location, you pick up a
defenseless citizen who just wants to go places.
Well, actually, they may be defenseless, but they
sure got a mouth. Well, anyway, there's more to
it then just picking up the citizen taking her to
her location. You have to do this in a certai
about of time, and through heavy traffic. You can
even go over ramps, buildings, run on the subway
tracks, over the grass, and beach.
In the game, you'll have a
chance to pick from three different drivers,
Axel, a green haired guy who drives a 60's
classic Caddilac, B.D. Joe, a funky guy who has a
big mouth, and drives a 60's Pontiac. Also, Gena,
a cool & sexy girl California girl who drives
a small European car. Then there's Gus, a 42 year
old guy who thinks he's cool. But he's more like
a pimp daddy, and drives a 30's Packard.
Sega has added another full
course adding to the original course from the
arcade. Sega of America says the courses aren't
based on San Francisco, but after playing the
game you could see its San Francisco with little
changes. Both courses are extremely long, with
tons of different paths. In each city, there is a
lot of traffic, sometimes for no reason, the cars
will crash. Sometimes, I think the 18 wheelers
block my path on the highway. The bad part is
most of the passengers always ask to go to the
same places over and over again. So, instead of
picking up the passengers, I just kept riding
around, and I found tons of new paths.
In the game, there are 3
playable modes, Arcade, Original, and Crazy Box.
Arcade mode has the course from the arcade
machine. You can choose from playing with the
arcade rules, play for 3 minutes, 5 minutes or 10
minutes. Original mode has the new track, and you
can choose from driving using arcade rules, play
for 3 minutes, 5 minutes, or 10 minutes. Crazy
Box is the mini-game mode, it comes with 9
different modes. From, Crazy Jump, Crazy Flag,
Crazy Ballons, Crazy Drift, Crazy Turn, Crazy
Bound, Crazy Dash, Crazy Rush, Crazy Jam and
Crazy Pole. Each mini-games has a different
object.
Crazy Taxi is an instant
Dreamcast hit, and is a must buy game. After
buying the game, I was reading the inside book of
the game in the mall, when I guy walks by me and
says, "Hey, you bought that game too?!"
The EB were I bought the game doesn't really sell
a lot of Dreamcasts and DC peripherals. So a guy
coming up to me and saying that shows how much
its selling. This game will appeal to anyone,
this is probably one of the hottest games for any
system at the moment.
Graphics: 9
Sound: 10
Control: 10
Gameplay: 9.5
Overall: 38.5 |
Crazy
Taxi
Publisher:
Sega
Developer:
AM3
# of players: 1
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