Crazy Box has you doing certain tasks like knocking down blowing pines to popping all balloons in an arena to getting customers to destinations on a narrow path without landing in the water. The modes are still all there with Arcade, Original and Crazy Box. They could have made it easier to pull some of the moves off in the game instead of basically giving you 2 buttons to work with, but this is a straight port from the Dreamcast version minus the good music.

To pull off all of the moves like ‘Crazy Dash’, ‘Crazy Stop’, ‘Crazy Drift’ and so on you have only drive, reverse as well as steering. It is just a shame they could not have updated the game adding new modes, online capabilities and even change the mechanics of the game, being how hard it can be to pull off the moves in the game. So just for the fact that I can now play Crazy Taxi again while netting some achievements is great. The game has come to this generation of consoles and added Achievements/Trophies which is a good thing since I don’t even own a Dreamcast anymore. You can unlock Avatar Awards for playing for 5 and 10 hours, with 5 hours of gameplay getting you a vintage style Crazy Taxi T-Shirt and 10 hours of gameplay unlocking another shirt. So I found myself playing the game for hours because Crazy Taxi is just that much fun. I guess they took that into account and figured the game didn’t need any changes. But the game is not all that bad, because the original was so good. The game is supposedly HD while running at 60 FPS and does it smoothly as expected with its box shaped hands on the people graphics. It’s not the worst thing in the world but doesn’t come close to comparing with the ‘Offspring’ and ‘Bad Religion’ Soundtrack which never got repetitive for me while these songs do. Instead you’ll here more modern punk songs with a pop tone to them and are all underground, ‘no-name’ bands. The one change that was made was the original soundtrack was replaced so there is no more ‘Offspring’ or ‘ Bad Religion’ songs that were in the original Dreamcast version, which is a bad thing and I am personally pissed about. Same Modes, same gameplay mechanics and same goofy narrator. So the graphics are horrible and everything is exactly the same. The game is literally untouched from the Dreamcast version. Among starting it up and playing, memories were brought back and I found myself having just as much fun as I did in the past, while I began to realize a few things. It’s kind of become an inextricable part of the Crazy Taxi series’ personality.With the original Crazy Taxi being such a big hit on the Sega Dreamcast Console back in the year 2000, many people including myself where stoked about the news that the game was coming to the Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network.

At this point, it’s earnest kitsch, but even at the time, it was really amusing how blatant the product placement was. Seeing someone demand quick transit to Tower Records is just something that doesn’t exist anymore, since the chain went bankrupt in 2006. People in West Coast aren’t going to just “City Restaurant,” they want to go to Pizza Hut. Product placement is a generally insidious intrusion into a video game, but retrospectively, it’s part of the series’ charm. Newer ports of any of the Crazy Taxi games tend to omit the licensed soundtrack, as well as the product placement. Ask anyone who has put in significant time on Crazy Taxi and they’ll tell you that “All I Want” isn’t a song by The Offspring. There are way too few tracks, but the tempo and sound of each one are spot on.

They’re all generally locked to specific tracks, so Glimmer Oasis has more of a rockabilly soundtrack, whereas West Coast is pop-punk.

Underlying Crazy Taxi 3 is an awesomely repetitive soundtrack by The Offspring, Bad Religion, Brian Setzer, Methods of Mayhem, and Citizen Bird.

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