Crazy Taxi for XBLA leaked ?

[crackdude]

What's the problem with Offspring? I love them.

I also think that CT2 was the better one. It was bigger than the first, it improved some stuff, it was possible to drive 4 afrodudes to 4 different locations, and Crazy Jump was fun. Better minigames as well.

[Barry the Nomad]

I prefer CT1's levels, CT2's crazy box and CT3's roster. I still hold out hope for a CT4 with online multiplayer. Imagine racing to get a fare before another cab snaps it up. It would be doubly cool if there was a quick haggling segment in which players who reach a fare at the same time can try to lower their price in order to get the passenger in their cab. Nothing too complicated, something akin to a reverse ebay auction on a 5 second timer.

[crackdude]

And when you couldn't get to the destination on time, the passenger would jump out of your cab into someone else's (if they were next to you)! That would have a whole new dynamic. If you saw that someone was about to jump, you'd follow that cab like hell!

[Barry the Nomad]

I really like that idea! Like a cab to cab transfer, and maybe you get a X2 score for stealing a fare. lol, I imagine a "capture the flag" mini game replacing the flags with a passenger.

Roster could be the 12 cabbies from the first three games, 4 new cabbies and then 4 unlockable drivers from other AM3/AM5/Rosso/Hitmaker games: Temjin, Kaiyodo, the Cosmic Smash guy and a Sega Rally Toyota Celica.

[crackdude]

[Barry the Nomad]

I do wish the Celica drove a Taxi. Or the Hornet (Daytona) flew a Hornet (After Burner).

[crackdude]

I do wish the Celica drove a Taxi. Or the Hornet (Daytona) flew a Hornet (After Burner).

That would really be fun :D

[MadeManG74]

Fuck the Celica, Lancia Stratos FTW.


Seriously though, I think CT2 was a good game as well, but overall I just liked the first one better. I can't remember much about the second game's challenges though, I remember it was Crazy Pyramid but not much else.

I'm not quite sure what it was, I just felt the jump mechanic was a big gimmicky compared to the simplicity of the first game. I agree though the multi-fare passengers were cool    Love the way the disco/afro guy used to moonwalk across the back-seat when you got him there on time.

[Sharky]

I think Crazy Taxi 2 had the more fun mini games but Crazy Taxi 1 had the better cities.

CT3... didn't really have anything 'better' bar graphics.

[crackdude]

CT3 was supposed to be online wasn't it?

[Barry the Nomad]

I remember Crazy Taxi 3 being originally titled 'Crazy Taxi Next' and was touted to be online. I think the disappointment of no online led people to give the game more shit than it deserved. True, CT3 didn't add much more than glitter oasis which wasn't as cool as the first two cities. But I do give it massive props for having all the cities and drivers of the first two games as well as a big roster.

And just for shits and giggles, here is high res art from the Sega FTP (for the Dreamcast release):

[MadeManG74]

^Gus should have been in SASAR instead of Joe I think.

[Barry the Nomad]

Or the All-Star Move had all four cabbies driving about the track. That'd be pretty sweet.

[Sega Uranus]

I like Gus way more, but I think BD Joe fit in the game good. At least they did not go with Axel, like I assumed they would.

I also think SARS should have had a taxi mode of some sort, like take background characters to their destination. I think it would have been easy to have made in the battle arenas.

Thinking back on Crazy Taxi, I remember my favorite moment with the game was when I took a pregnant woman under the sea to the hospital, but I ran out of time so she thought it would be better to jump off of the back of my car into a moving train.

On the topic of Crazy Taxi 2: Thought it was great too, but I entirely echo MadeMang's comments on it.

On the topic of Crazy Taxi 3: lol no

Also, it is rumored that Crazy Taxi is Michael Jackson's most played video game of all time. Too bad Space Michael was not in it, he could have been able to turn into the car and everything!

[crackdude]

I absolutely loved that minigame in CT2 where you'd drive at the top of grotesquely tall buildings with ludicrous twists and turns with a pregnant woman on board.