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Crazy Taxi
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 20 critic reviews
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Based on 9 votes
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Game Info
Publisher: Acclaim
Developer: Sega
Genre(s): Racing, Driving
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: T (Teen)
Release Date: November 18, 2001
Summary
As a fearless cabbie with attitude, your goal is to rack up the mega-bucks before your shift ends. It's a race against the clock as you pick up passengers and white-knuckle it through busy streets and back alleys to their various destinations. To keep that meter collecting cash, you've gotta take the fastest route possible, even if it means bending the traffic laws -- just a little. So get a grip on the wheel, sharpen your senses, and don't lose your cool. [Acclaim]
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What The Critics Said
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Nintendojo
The game is simple, elegant and everything that a "game" should be: fun.
Read Full Review >GameSpy
While Electronic Art's blatant clone, "Simpsons Road Rage," has much improved graphics, a two-player mode, and free ride option, Crazy Taxi still comes out ahead in pure controllability and gameplay.
Read Full Review >Operation Sports
A solid port of a great arcade game that does not get fudged in the translation.
Read Full Review >GamePro
The GameCube controller responds well, and both the silly speech quips and the Offspring punk tunes sound great.
Read Full Review >Hot Games
It wears on you after a while, but for new players, you have a lot of passengers to pick up before you get jaded.
Read Full Review >GameBiz
The short sessions ensure you grab as many pedestrians as you can, but, like an arcade game, you get bored of it quickly, and wouldn't play more than 15 minutes at a time after the novelty has worn off.
Read Full Review >Game Informer
Just a plain and simple port; nothing worth noting has been added. [Jan 2002, p.85]
TotalGames.net
If you're one of the lucky ones who haven't had the pleasure then please, go out and buy it; you'll find it an absolute joy. Unfortunately, it's a joy most of us have already experienced and moved on from.
Read Full Review >GameCube Europe
Good for quick laugh, but that's about it. No multiplayer, and limited gameplay means there's not much life in this game.
Read Full Review >GamerWeb Nintendo
As good a game as it ever was. If you've never played it before, then now is an ideal time to take the plunge.
Read Full Review >All Game Guide
The game is ideal for players who have never sat behind Crazy Taxi’s wheel. Veteran drivers, however, would do well to skip this fare.
Read Full Review >IGN
With only two major cities to explore and nine mini-games it still feels like an arcade game...[but] an awesome game if you didn't play it on previous systems.
Read Full Review >Gamezilla!
An overall disappointment. As the direct port of a three-year-old game, certain steps should have been taken to bring it up to par.
Read Full Review >Nintendo Power
Lots of thrills and hills. It just doesn’t have the character and control that the Simpsons game has. [Jan 2002, p.130]
GamePen
Perhaps due to its arcade roots, Crazy Taxi has always had a general lack of depth. It’s no different here on the GameCube.
Read Full Review >GameShark
The gameplay is great in short bursts (which is why it worked so well in the arcade) but if you play for more than a few hours it gets extremely repetitive.
Read Full Review >Game Revolution
A mediocre port of what can already be considered an old but classic Dreamcast game.
Read Full Review >GameSpot
The quick-and-dirty port does everything the DC and PS2 releases did--meaning it looks good for a Dreamcast game but pretty awful when compared with anything else released on the GameCube so far.
Read Full Review >Yahoo! Games
Crazy Taxi’s voices used to be fun...They’ve been replaced with some flat, bored-sounding clips that don’t come close to the original’s amusing, quotable lines.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Puffy gave it an8:
This is a pretty good game , controls are tight , musics good , grahics anit too bad ,,,, worth the ten dollars i bought it for ... hay if u dont have it for any other system n just want a car game for the game cube hay crazy taxi is good u can get it for a good low price its worth it ..... game cubes are good.
Ding Dong gave it a 10:
All you losers seem to forget that Crazy Taxi was out BEFORE Simpsons Road Rage, typical of you Americans I bet you even thought that The Matrix was origanal as well. Wake up you losers and pull your head out of your frigging a**!! [Ed: Chill, dingdong, chill....]
Don S. gave it a 9:
So it's a direct port. who cares! Crazy Taxi is one of the best games ever. it's addictive and has the greatest soundtrack ever.
Eric L. gave it a 9:
This is one of the best race/taxi games out there for the cube. it's hard and challenging without feeling that the task is impossible.
Bob A. gave it an 8:
A great game. Fantastic music.
Regan W. gave it a 5:
This is not one of the "best video games ever made". It's fun and enjoyable, but it's a 5 or 6 out of 10.
[Anonymous] gave it a 10:
GREAT!!!!
