Thursday
May052011
Crazy Taxi isn't that crazy, and isn't the game you think it is
Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 7:02AM
I can remember many a quarter spent playing a bit of Crazy Taxi in the arcade: drive. Pickup a customer, then floor it as fast as you could to their destination. I'm sorry to say the Crazy Taxi we're looking at today is not that game. In this Crazy Taxi, you hold down the accelerator, then jump when a series of cars approaches, or alternatively, you can try to move side to side. Good luck with that.
The graphics are passable, but the sound effects and lack of such extras as say, a visual when you approach a checkpoint, make this a taxi you can avoid.
Here's a look: