Crazy Taxi

The Good
Does driving a cab during hot weather or through traffic jams must always be boring and tiring? Not in this game.

Your main task is to pick customers (people with dollar symbol over head) and take them to the proper place. The time for ride is limited, so you have to speed up to receive your money and extra bonus tips when the ride was enough crazy. Interesting part of the game is the Crazy Box mode where you can take part in one of 17 short missions like carrying all 8 customers within time or beating jump records. One of the best sides is the music. Short (only two tracks) but pleasant.

The Bad
If you would like to conquer the world using your cab, you should find yourself other game. Crazy taxi offers 2 small maps only, both located in San Francisco. Moreover, you can choose your vehicle between 4 cabs only. Not only the title and style of driving are in this game „crazy”. Crazy are also the prizes for challenging drive. A 100 meter drive can cost over 100 US Dollars! Longest drive cost appropriately more. The game is totally unrealistic. Our car bounce from walls (no destruction model, our car is indestructible) and we can commute roofs and underwater world (driving cabrio!). There is no free ride mode. We can only play on arcade rules, or for 2, 5 or 10 minutes. What is more, first minutes of all game are looking the same. There is no customer generator in this game! We will always meet the same customers in the same places, and we will quickly remember where do we need to take them.

The Bottom Line
I don’t know what makes this game better from others. Its not a type of game that you can play whole day and night by the whole week. You will probably play for one hour, quickly get bored and several times a year you will be back to play also one hour. Short but highly interesting. But if you want your game to be addictive, find yourself other game such as the third part of Crazy Taxi. My opinion: 7/10