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Stinks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 38
Date: July 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Crazy Taxi 3 stinks on Ice same thing with the 2nd one. I only love the originial one. Do not buy this really really stinky game. It`s a big waste of 50 bucks. I will know not to waste money on a game like this again. This game is really bad. Only buy the original one.

1.It has bad graphics.

2.The people aren`t is cool.

My opinion:Try it if you want but it`s a waste.

I wish Crazy Taxi 2 and Crazy Taxi 3 never existed. The Original one Rocks And Roll!

Crazy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: August 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

fun at 1st but den u will get bored of it

A ton of potential, but not a lot of energy

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 19
Date: November 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Crazy Taxi 3 might have seemed like an awesome, whatever-you-want driving game if only GTA3 and GTA: Vice City had not come along. Against Vice City, Crazy Taxi 3 seems like a small mini-game.

Crazy Taxi 3 does have nice graphics, as you drive through 3 cities that approximate San Francisco, Las Vegas and New York City. Each city has its own personality, and you get to choose from a handful of taxis (and drivers) for each city.

In essence you grab a fare and have to take the fare to their destination. You rack up cash for doing so and the more fares in a row you can do, the better. There are also an assortment of minigames like 'jump through the flaming hoops' and 'pop the balloons'.

It this had come out say 3 years ago, the driving-whereever-you-want would have been amazing. The fact that you could just cruise the streets, plowing over sidewalks, taking shortcuts and looking at the nice graphics would have been great. Unfortunately for CT3, something else came along - Grand Theft Auto. Grand Theft Auto HAS taxi missions, with the same earnings and time limits. But in GTA, that is but one tiny part of a huge gameplay system. And when you don't feel like doing timed missions, you have the luxury of driving anywhere you want, in any car you want, and exploring the world you have.

You can say that GTA3/GTAVC is for the PS2 and Crazy Taxi 3 is for the XBox. But what does that mean? That because they were programming for the XBox, Crazy Taxi 3's developers could only put out 1/20th of the game? At least if they were going to solely concentrate on taxi-like things, they could have put in more cities, or more taxis, or more missions, or something. But the game comes across as an arcade port (which it was) that didn't have a lot of energy behind it (unfortunately). What they put out as a 'complete game' is something the Grand Theft guys kicked out as a fun little side toy. I am a HUGE HUGE fan of arcade games, and also a HUGE fan of driving games, so I really had high hopes for this. But unfortunately the game turned mindlessly repetitive too quickly.

I'm disappointed that the PS2 has the Vice City/GTA3 shining as their 'driving in a city' showoff and that the XBox can only hold this up as a comparison. It's time for the XBox developers to take the brilliance behind Halo and show us that they CAN have a Vice City like incredible experience on their platform.

Summary: Fun for a short while, but not something that grabs you for weeks or months.

Limited appeal, sub-Xbox graphics

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: August 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The original Crazy Taxi was such a fun game, that it stole hours away from my otherwise uninteresting life. This third installment, an exclusive for the Xbox, continues the same gameplay of picking up funky passengers, racing against time and dropping them off in one piece, hopefully.

Unfortunately, the graphics is also little improved, a shame considering the Xbox is capable of doing many times more than what the game offers. Sound is also at best mediocre. Controls are easy to learn and master, and the fun factor can be high for some audience -- and definitely more fun than the copycat "Simpsons Road Rage".

You may want to rent this title before buying it. I enjoyed the demo from Official Xbox Magazine enough to rent it from Blockbuster, but I'm definitely not buying it for my permanent library.

TO SPEED UP IN A FLASH, DO A CRAZY DASH! God...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: July 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If for anything else, you can count on the Crazy Taxi series for quick, easily accessible fun. Give the game to someone who's never played a game since the first Tetris iteration, and they'll have a blast in no time once they get the controls. Give it to a strict racing fan, and they'll even admit o having fun playing a not so racing racing game. When the first Crazy Taxi came out almost 10 years ago, I didn't know what to make of it- you got paid to drive around town, flipping cars, disobeying the road laws of all U.S. cities, and even driving under water? Sign me up! But I never liked driving games outside of the first Mario Kart, so I was 50/50 on the whole situation. But the second I played it, I knew that I had to have the game. It's pure arcade fun at its finest, and I'm glad I got it when I did. But a few years later, when the Dreamcast was on its last legs, a sequel came out. Not many bought it for various reasons, but to me, it just didn't look like much. One city opposed to the DC's two (the original Arcade level, and one made just for the DC), the addition of picking up and dropping off multiple passengers at once, and a jump feature? Doesn't sound like much of a sequel, but a small upgrade. I didn't buy it, or play it until I picked this one up- Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller for Xbox. CT3 didn't do very well at all, like most Sega games for the system. By that point in time, people had moved on to other games, or just lost interest in the series. Not one to give up on something that started out great, I ended up buying it when I learned that the first two games were included, and that this new city for CT3 was huge. CT3 is a good purchase if you liked the first Crazy Taxi, but it's far from perfect in many ways.

I don't know who hasn't heard of Crazy Taxi by now, but here's a simple summary: you pick a car and driver, then drive around town picking up people and taking them to their destinations, like taxi drivers do. You have a time limit to do this, as well as one base time limit for your gameplay. What I mean is, you can pick someone up when you have 50 seconds, but that person can have a 20 second time limit before they give up and not pay you for taking too long. If you get them to their destination fast, you'll get a few seconds added to your base time limit. That's about it- drive around and make money until time runs out. There's no real way to "beat" the game aside from getting a high ranked license once your time's up, but even then, all you get are credits, no real ending. The first Crazy Taxi game has you driving around the streets of a town in California. The second has you in a town modeled after New York. And the third has you in a small portion of Las Vegas more or less. Passengers come in different forms- some have a red dollar sign over their head, showing that you won't get much money. That color changes to yellow for a moderate amount of money, and then to green for the most. So to get a good score, try to go only for the green marked ones. But keep in mind that their destinations are usually the ones farthest from where you pick them up (naturally). Included in all 3 games here is a jump feature, making it easier to avoid traffic when zipping around town. It also nets you some extra bonus cash in the process. There are some tricks to attaining higher money, like speed boosts pulled off by hitting reverse, then drive quickly while slamming on the gas. Your cab's tires will practically explode and you'll get a great boost, almost ensuring you to get to your destination on time. There are 4 different cars and drivers for each of the 3 games, each with their own minor differences, but nothing too much. Handling, maneuver, things like that vary depending on who you pick. That about does it for the actual game- it's easy to get into, and that's something that many games don't have these days.

What goes wrong with the game, are tiny nitpicks. The jump feature makes the game almost too easy since you can easily leap over trucks and any other obstacles in your way. Physics, something I normally don't care about in games, is just messed up here. You can be driving around, pulling off drifts one second, then be tossed around like a rag doll the next when you bump into a curb. The first Crazy Taxi game had this problem, and to see it prominent in both sequels, as well as STILL in the first game with this new port, it shows me that there were shortcuts taken in the programming process. Anyone who played the original Crazy Taxi will know what I'm talking about when I mention getting stuck in walls and other fantastic aliasing problems that should be fixed by now. There's no rewarding in mastering the gameplay- if you've mastered one Crazy Taxi, you'll have no problem getting through the others you haven't played. Of course, this isn't entirely true- the first two cities have been redesigned slightly to make use of the jump and multiple passenger features. Remember trying to make it onto the roofs of some buildings in the first game? Now you can, and it's actually worth it, but not as rewarding as you'd hope. The graphics are also worth noting as a negative- the third game, made seemingly just for the Xbox, looks like a Dreamcast game no matter how you look at it. It makes no use of the Xbox's hardware, which is a crying shame. Slowdown from the first games are still here too, making me wonder why they even bothered throwing them in in the first place. And get this- the voices of the cabbies, at least in the first game, have been changed. No more great Gus voice acting- he now sounds like a generic mugger for hire. The controls will also still give you a hard time, as usual. Basically, if you've never liked the Crazy Taxi games, CT3 isn't going to help change your mind. At least the game has mini-games to fall back on. Those were something that kept the fans coming back, though I can't say that I enjoyed them much myself. Also, why the hell wasn't a custom soundtrack feature included? I love Bad Religion and all, but listening to the Offspring mixed in with them nonstop gets grating fast. I'd often turn off the volume and play something on my stereo instead. Crazy Taxi is an ideal game for the custom soundtrack feature. Finally, the original level made just for the Dreamcast is missing from the game. That was a fantastic level, and it's sorely missed. Why not include it when you include the first two games and their drivers as well?

Visually, everything looks about the same as you remember it. Maybe slightly sharper, but nothing noticeable. Loading times are actually slower than the Dreamcast's for some reason, the slowdown's still here, some jaggies, and more. But, the game usually runs smooth, and generally looks good. It's just a shame no upgrades were made in the graphics department. Again, as I've mentioned, the voices have been changed, and the soundtrack is still all-Bad Religion and Offspring. If you don't like those bands, you're screwed. I won't get into an argument over music taste here, but you can't mix a great band like Bad Religion with a generic ponk band like the Offspring. It's not right.

I'm not mad with my purchase of the game- I still have fun playing it every now and then, but I'm glad I never bought it when it first came out for full price. At this point in time, it doesn't look like a new Crazy Taxi will be coming out, so you may as well catch up if you haven't tried the series out now. Just keep in mind that most of the games are the same, and that they were made for arcades. So don't expect some in-depth racing simulator or anything of the sort.

Pretty good... but....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 25
Date: June 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game will be very fun.
Excepty for a few problems which have taken place in all the other Crazy Taxi games.
While going at top speed it is almost immposible to pick up a pedestrian. Vice Versa when you are dropping them off.

Second, The game in all of the rest of them had been extremely easy to beat as well. My gues,,, about hour.

Besides that, this game is very fun.

Disappointed after the hype...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

After reading the previews and comments of other Amazon customers, this sounded like a game I couldn't live without. I bought it without trying it first, and it was the first time that I have regretted a game purchase on my Xbox system. The game has okay graphics, but the vehicle physics are somewhat lame (even for an arcade game), the gameplay is redundant and the only 2 standard controller schematics that they allow are both poor. I played the game through all of the "X" tests, which prime you for the actual game, and even after getting used to the controls & handling of the car I didn't have much fun with it. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the tests are much more fun than the actual game itself. The game's concept is a good one, but the gamplay just falls short IMHO. I only gave it a "3" rating because it's not a terrible game, and some people may actually find it to be a fun game. But my copy is going on e-bay...

Not Bad, copuld be better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: October 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It's alright no big suprises, XBOX control scheme slows you down a little.

This game is not as fun as the originals but it is cheap

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Crazy Taxi series was loads of fun on the Dreamcast. Sega in making Crazy Taxi 3 for the XBOX did not make a quality attempt to upgrade the graphics to push the XBOX hardware. The game is plagued by annoying music which I think can be turned off. I hope it cab be turned off as it totally ruins the driving experience. What's good about the game is not only has the price dropped down to where you are more likely to buy a game that is a 6 out of 10, it gives you the ability to basically play Crazy Taxi 1, 2, and 3 with the new game engine so you can perform the crazy hop, crazy drift, and whatever other gimmicks this current game offers in the older versions. I don't want to ramble on forever so just know that the game has a problem with jaggies and popups and the music is annoying, but the game is somewhat fun and I am not sorry I bought it, but I imagine for most people this game's box with collect dust.

why is it so slow

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: July 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

if you have spent as much time playing the first two as i have than you will tear your hair out when you play the game so much slower

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