Home |  Customer Service | Contact  | Shopping Cart   
Sega Neptune: The site for gamers
Search

Crazy Taxi


 ‹ Sega
     Sega Genesis
     Sonic
     Sega Dreamcast
     Sega Saturn
     Sega Game Gear
   Nintendo

You are here: Sega > Sega Dreamcast > Crazy Taxi

Product Price, Availability, and Shipping Information

Crazy Taxi
Larger Image
List Price:
Your Price:
$29.41
You Save:
 
Availability:
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Quantity:
add to cart   or  Buy at Amazon.com
Shopping & Saving made Easy and Social:  
price drop alert
Request a Price Drop Alert      SocialTwist Tell-a-Friend Buy at Amazon.com
You may also like:  
no imageno imageno imageno imageno image

Product Details

Release Date:2000-02-01
Category:Video Game
Label/Manufacturer:"Sega of America, Inc."
UPC:010086510355

Product Description

If you think it's hard to flag down a cab in a big city, try driving one in Sega's zany straight-from-the-arcade port of Crazy Taxi. If you're one of the teeming fans who eagerly played Crazy Taxi in the arcade at a buck a pop, then this game is a must-buy, if only from a purely economic standpoint. Even those who don't know the difference between Crazy Taxi and the long-running TV series Taxi will immediately recognize the appeal of this game. In fact, this game is so impressive and addictive that it should easily convince a whole new wave of buyers to purchase a Sega Dreamcast.

What's so hot about Crazy Taxi? For starters, the graphics sport the most impressive re-creation of a living city ever seen in a video game. The level of detail is astounding and never ceases to surprise the player as block after unique block speeds by. The city is a distilled version of San Francisco with some landmarks and neighborhoods left intact. Making it seem all the more real are apparent product placements of real-world retail locations such as KFC, Tower Records, and Pizza Hut. And just about everything you see on the screen is interactive: boxes, phone booths, and mailboxes topple when bumped or smashed, pedestrians leap and tumble out of your path, and the myriad of traffic attempts to avoid your erratic high-speed antics. While some driving games brag about a lack of boundaries, this one delivers--players drive on the ocean floor, off the second floor of a parking garage, through parks, and down stairs. A helpful hovering arrow points drivers in the correct direction, but you can truly drive wherever you want at any time, making for tons of replay value.

While the game is a direct port from the arcade game of the same name, there's plenty more depth in the home version. In addition to the city that appears in the coin-op version, the Dreamcast version also includes an entirely new city. Crazy Taxi includes a trunk-load of mini-games that help to teach drivers how to perform the special speed boosts and maneuvers in the game.

Though this game would be plenty exciting without any sounds at all, it has an adrenaline-pumping soundtrack supplied by punk crossover bands the Offspring and Bad Religion, as well as some good, if sometimes monotonous, dialogue between the driver and the passengers. --Jeff Young

Pros:

  • Wonderful, realistic graphics
  • Easy to get into, and full of many long hours of addictive play
  • Even more to offer than the fantastic arcade game upon which this is based
Cons:
  • On very few occasions players will encounter some graphic slowdown

Product Features

* dreamcase

Similar Products

No Image 

Jet Grind Radio

$29.99
Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
By "Sega of America, Inc."
No Image 

Visual Memory Unit - Blue

$9.77
Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
By SEGA
No Image 

Sega Dreamcast Controller (Original Gray)

$13.19
Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
By Sega of America, Inc.
No Image 

Av Audio Video Composite Cable for Sega Dreamcast

$5.37
Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
By Classic Game Source
No Image 

Sonic Adventure

$29.99
 
By SPIG

Tags for this page: Crazy Taxi