Hello everyone here we are today with one of my favorite games of all time
Crazy Taxi. Now if you aren't familiar, Crazy Taxi was a massive hit on the
Dreamcast and I believe on the original Playstation it was converted to as well.
The idea is you're a taxi driver you can pick one of four different taxi drivers
slightly different handling
and you have a certain time limit to collect as many people and deliver them to
wherever they need to be and collect their cash.
Now because you are a crazy taxi driver the idea is to drive as fast as you can
the quicker you get between the various points the more cash you're going to get
and the more crazy stunts you kind of do
as you're going along
the more bonus money your passenger is going to give you.
Now the whole idea of the game is just
glorious.
It's purely a race against time really and your own skill at being able to
drive as fast as possible and avoid things.
Now it's fairly limited in the sense that there's not a huge amount of variety
here in the gameplay.
What really happens with the game is you're kind of playing against yourself more than
anything else
you try and get the high scores each time
and there's a time limit so you can race through I think either three give or 10
minutes.
And there's an arcade mode or the time attack mode as well.
Now what they've really done with this game from an Android perspective is to do a
direct conversion from the Dreamcast.
Now what that basically means is you're getting the awesome graphics slightly tweaked and
updated so they look really good on Android
an incredibly fast frame rate I mean really really does bomb along
on the Galaxy S4 and the HTC One for that matter.
The original soundtrack has been included which if you remember the original game
was probably one of the highlights and certainly was a reason to kind of keep
playing this game
because the soundtrack is just fantastic.
It comes from a time when, you know
game-play and soundtracks they were kind of in their earliest days
of trying to get some of these really big artists to actually sign on so
the soundtrack in Crazy Taxi is by the Offspring
punk American rockers. But
it really adds something to the gameplay and to the speed of the game when you've got
this really awesome soundtrack blaring away in the background.
Part of the Crazy Taxi thing is that it's kind of free roaming so you can take
any path you want to try and deliver your fare.
As the game kind of progresses there are shortcuts and so on that you can kind of
use including a train track which
really does add to the kind of madness of it all
especially when you have to start trying to dodge the train at the same
time as delivering your fare.
But the overall gameplay the graphics the whole package that Sega have put together
here is phenomenal
and I think probably one of the most consistent companies out there for
delivering conversions but also delivering really decent mobile games
the moment is Sega.
They've really got their act together as it were and
they're showing their back catalogue is just as awesome as it
always was and now we can experience it on modern devices.
I would thoroughly recommend you pickup this title it is a couple of quid, it's gonna cost you
about £4 currently on the Google Play Store
but it's well worth it.
It's worth every minute you're going to spend playing it
The dynamic of the game being you know these short three minutes to ten minutes
stints
it lends itself really well to mobile play
better than you know most other games that I've seen that have been converted
across which are more like oh well, here's the whole console experience hope you've got
six hours to play it.
With Crazy Taxi it's very much got that pick up and play
instant win kind of thing going on so do go and grab it this weekend you are not going to be
disappointed one of the best games ever made is back.