Crazy Taxi

Crazy Taxi finally comes home to the Dreamcast. This NAOMI conversion was a perfect choice for Sega's system. The game is a solid bundle of graphics, gameplay, and fun. You take the role of one of four different cabbies each with their own decked out ride. Your misson: taxi people all across the city and make as much money as gamingly possible. A simple premise, but an effective and highly enjoyble one none-the-less. Since the city is huge and winding there's lots of different routes and shortcuts to take. Such as leaping over buildings, cutting through the subway, and driving through local parks. Not to mention that you'll have to watch out for the afternoon traffic and roaming pedestrians. Remeber you're being timed so don't let anything stand in your way. It's basically all about running against the clock, giving the customers a wild ride, and earning yourself a ton of money. At the end of the game you get a ranking of either S, A, B, C, D, F (S being the best and F being the worst). This of course is based on how much dough you pull in and the number of customers you got. And if you're getting tired of the Arcade city, Sega made an exclusive landscape for the DC version. There's even the Crazy Box mode which throws certain objectives at you. Like Bowling (knock over all the pins with your car) and Long Jumping (see if you can break that 170-ft. jump record!). Completing this opens of the Crazy Cycle (yes, now you too can taxi people on your bike). Though some might complain about a lack of varied stages and the seemingly tedious venture. It's really not at all, if anything it's one of the most refreshing, inventive, and most fun games of recent memory. Especially if you got a group friends who are trying to score the best rank and get the top records in Crazy Box. And really that's were my only complaint is. There's no two player simultaneous option. Instead only one person can take a go at a time. With a VMU you can save upto four different personas, but it just isn't the same as a versus option. Still though, the game is one of the best titles I've played in a while here and it just goes to show how Sega is still the king of arcade games.

Overall 9.0