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AMAZING, INCREDIBLE...BUY IT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 17
Date: July 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I don't have the ful version of this yet but I do have a decent demo for OXM (official xbox magazine). I played this continually attempting to get an "A" rating. This game is addicting and different every time you play. The frame rate is great and the graphics are crisp and clear. There are special moves like a crazy jump so you can get over oncoming cars, a crazy drift to get around cornrers easier and your wheels go on fire, and the crazy boost that leaves a trail af flames while you speed forward. Controlls are easy to do and the replayability is way up there. Deffeinnetly deserves 5 stars. BUY IT

Everything from the first 2, with much much more!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: October 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you've never played a Crazi Taxi game, you've really missed out. If you have, you know how much fun they are. Well, if u liked either of the first two, I can promise u that you'll like this one. It packs it all in. Here goes:

One thing you'll notice about this game is that the controls are just like previous Crazy Taxi games (right trigger go, left trigger stop). You stop in a customer's circle, he hops in and you take him to his destination. Speedy, nice tip. Normal, good tip. Slow, bad tip. You can pick any of 12 Taxi drivers, and drive your Taxi in any of 3 locations. Either one: the coast (from the first game), two: The Big Apple (second game), and third: the new Glitter Oasis. Make as much money as possible, and you'll get a license (either A,B,C,D,E, and or F). Drive for 3 minutes, 5 minutes, and 10 minutes. That's the game, now on to why it's so awsome.

Graphics: They're incredible. You really feel like you driving through a city, with beautiful buildings, scenery, streets, and cars. Sharp people and convincing worlds will give you the full expierience only Xbox can offer. There are hundreds of different people to pick up, and you'll notice your not picking up 3 people again and again during the run. I never see the same person in a run. It's weird. It's almost like really being a Taxi driver in New York City.

So, if you have a craving for more of the same great Crazy Taxi, with old and new people, envirements, and outstanding graphics, Crazy Taxi 3 is for you. An Xbox exclusive, a must buy for all current (or future) Xbox owners. Excellent game Sega, now on to Crazy Taxi 4! (*lol*)

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.

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.

AWESOME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: June 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I usually do not review games which did not come out yet, but after playing the demo disc of OXM and playing this game for many days straight, ignoring all my other games, I just had to come and write a review. You would think the graphics would take advantage of the XBOX Hardware since it is an exclusive XBOX game, and in a way, it does. In the demo there was only one playable level called the Coast X. When I first played it, I was thinking, Dreamcasts graphics of the original Crazy Taxi are almost better than this. The next couple times I have played it though, I noticed just how crisp the graphics really were. They aren't bad at all!!! I must have been tired when I first played the game! After playing this game, in every arcade I go into, the first game I check for is Crazy Taxi! It has also come to be my favorite game for any console and this is just by playing the DEMO!!!!! Before I stop writing this review, I only have one complaint. When you take a group of people, you don't get paid until they ALL get dropped off in different locations. Also, with large groups, most of the time, even if you think you are going as fast as you can, like the first three people you drop off will say you are slow! The last one usually says normal. Dropping off just ONE person is easy enough to get a SPEEDY almost every time!

CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: September 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I love crazy taxi,im a real big fan of it, I have the first one for gamecube.Then i bought an xbox with 3 games, i didnt buy this one because i didnt know if it was as good or not, so i rented it.WOW, i love this one the most, here are some reasons.

1.Graphics: Really great, they are cartoony graphics sometimes but are really the best.

2.Sound: The sound effects are really cool, and the music, I LOVE, if u like punk bands like offspring and bad religion you'll like this, both bands are in the game plus some band called citizen bird...????.

3.Controls: The controls are the same as the last 2 games, i'd recommend the controller s or the racing wheel for this.

4.Gameplay:I love playing this game.IT has 1 level from each of the 1st games and same characters, I Played this game for hours.

Overall:Crazy Taxi 3 is crazy, i'd recommend buying it, if u never played crazy taxi,(any of them), then i'd recommend u rent it before purchasing. That's All.............Have fun Playing

Crazy Taxi gets it's 6 makeover!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 22
Date: April 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Amazing and astounding are two words that describe the crazy cab game genre invented by Sega. Crazy Taxi has had so many ports but now a sequel being made exclusively for the Xbox system. The Xbox technology should help the devlopers make the best Crazy Taxil game of them all. Now you're rampaging the streets of Sin City or also known as Las Vegas. New moves and new drivers are being added to keep the game fresh and funny. The new game should put the trilogy into video game history.

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.

Solid, fun game - Recommended!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: July 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is game is a must have if you are a fan of the Crazy Taxi series. It combines all the best elements of the previous Crazy Taxis but adds the element of Las Vegas. If you've never played Crazy Taxi and enjoy fast, frenetic driving action then I highly recommend giving Crazy Taxi a whirl. The controls are easy to pick up and the minigames provide a handy tutorial for learning the necessary cool moves to get through a course easily.

The best CT yet ... not quite perfect, but close enough

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: July 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Initially a hit arcade game, then a Dreamcast exclusive, Crazy Taxi has been one of Sega's most popular new franchises, a reason to buy a DC in and of itself. Once Sega began spreading its talents to other consoles, CT was one of the first games to be exported, to both PlayStation 2 and GameCube ... but not XBox. Instead, Sega and Hitmaker have brought an all-new version of the game exclusively to Microsoft's big black console. It retains everything that made the original (and its DC-only sequel Crazy Taxi 2) great, while bringing with it new features and, unfortunately, a couple of new flaws.

If you've been living incommunicado lately (say, the last 2 1/2 years), the game casts you as a taxi driver in a big city, in this case Glitter Oasis (an homage to Las Vegas). You get to choose one of four personas, each with uniquely-styled cabs (the choice of cabbie doesn't really affect gameplay enough, so just choose one you like). Your job is to pick up passengers and transport them to their destinations within a certain time, using any means necessary.

Potential fares are highlighted by a colored dollar sign over a similarly-colored pick-up zone. Red symbols denote short-distance (i.e., cheap) fares, with yellow, green and blue symbols pointing the way to more challenging (and more rewarding) fares. An arrow at the top of the screen directs you towards your destination, a large highlighted area where you stop and drop-off your passenger.

If you make things "interesting" along the way, by executing high-speed drifts, near misses or gravity-defying jumps, your passenger will tip you more and more. Succeed, and you get the fare plus the tips, along with bonus time to pick up other riders ... fail, and the passenger stiffs you and hops out of the cab, even if the destination is in sight.

Fans who missed out on CT 2 will notice a new feature ... the ability to pick up multiple passengers. These riders are highlighted by a number instead of a dollar sign. The stakes get really high here, since (a) your travel time--and potential fare--is much higher and (b) tips are multiplied by the number of passengers you have. However, this is an all-or-nothing proposition ... if even one of the group doesn't make their destination in time, you lose the *ENTIRE* fare.

CT 3 is one of the most replay-loaded games released in a long time. Crazy X brings you several new mini-games to play and unlock, along with a chance to improve your skills. Best of all, you get West Coast and Small Apple, the arcade maps (modeled after San Francisco and New York, respectively) from both Crazy Taxi and Crazy Taxi 2, along with their own unique cabbies!

As cool as all this sounds, it's not without its flaws, minor as they are. The game can be slow-loading at times, although it is faster than the demo disc some of you may have seen. While graphically gorgeous, it's not significantly better than even the Dreamcast versions of CT and CT 2. In fact, there are points of some limited slowdown; however, the screen has to be quite busy for this to occur, and when it does occur it isn't for very long (a couple of seconds).

The in-game music is appropriately fast-paced and very hard-rock oriented, from arists like The Offspring, Bad Religion and Tommy Lee. It retains tracks from both previous games, and even re-uses sound samples. Hardly original, but it don't take that much away from the game. (Parents please note: Some of the music tracks have some brief adult language, hence the game's T rating.)

If you're a fan of CT and CT 2, you really can't go wrong with CT 3, especially since you get to re-live those games once again. If this will be your first foray into the world of Crazy Taxi, rest assured that the positives of the game far outweigh the negatives. Now get out there and make some crazy money!

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