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Crazy Taxi and the Simpson collide

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 15 / 31
Date: October 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game looks like an entertaining blend of Crazy Taxi and The Simpsons. You drive around, picking up various Simpsons characters and dropping them off at their destinations within the time limit similar to crazy taxi. If you want Crazy Taxi with a Simpsons twist, this game is for you.

The makings of A simpsons classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 35 / 41
Date: November 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game has everything in it a simpsons fan could dream of. Although the game has a simpsons theme that doesn't mean you won't enjoy the game if you don't know the simpsons. The game takes the Crazy taxi formula that is so great and makes it better by allowing you to drive more characters up to 30 each with their own lines from the show and every time you pick up someone they respond to who you are. I.E. when your homer and you pick up bart he says "he its the big man" and homer replies with "that's my boy" and every character says 100's of things making this game entertaining and funny. This game is great if you liked crazy taxi get it. If you like the Simpsons get it. This game is hands down the best simpsons game ever made. Also for those of you who have noticed the ps2 and NGC versions of this game this one is the best graphic wise and gameplay wise. Plus no load times during gameplay. BUY THIS GAME

Game Drawbacks...Read first

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 34 / 40
Date: December 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you are wondering whether or not you should buy this game, please read this first.

The concept of this game is a very exciting one! Simpson's game with a Crazy Taxi concept! Right? Wrong!!

1. The catch phrases and character sayings are very repetitive. You would think they would have recorded more phrases. Hearing the characters saying the same phrases over and over again gets old fast.

2. No System Link. While this may not matter to most people, the only way to play this game against someone is through one Xbox console using a split screen.

3. Annoyances: Picking up and dropping passengers off to only see them again seconds later on another part of the map. Could Professor Frink be going crazy with some kind of cloning machine?

4. There is no method to the phrases the characters speak. They just randomly blurt out sometimes completely irrelevant sayings.

5. Delay in voice responses: If you are fast and drop a character off and immediately pick up a new character, you will still hear the old character talking even though they are no longer in the vehicle.

Bottom line... Rent this one because it gets old fast!

A must for Simpsons Fans.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As a Simpsons fan, this game is a must. The Editorial provides an excellent review. The graphics are decent, you can tell the game was ported and rushed. It doesn't do the X-box justice. That doesn't matter, because the gameplay is extremely fun and there is huge re-play value. Extremely fast and easy to play. Definately the bet Simpsons game out there (Not saying much if you played all the others :) ).

Crazy Taxi 2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The game is pretty cool you have to unlock all these tracks and players by earning money and by completing missions and it was funny to hear the characters interact. This game looks like a simpsons episode but it plays EXACTLY like Crazy Taxi. If you enjoy mindless entertainmnet and enjoy Crazy Taxi and you need a break every once in a while from Halo than this is the game for you.

Doh

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I really wanted to enjoy "The Simpson's: Road Rage" because I am to the point where I pity the "The Simpson's" license in the context of the incredibly competitive video game world. The last string of "Simpson's" games have been nothing but complete, almost unplayable disasters. It's not saying a whole lot when I hear people are raving that "Road Rage is THE best Simpson's game!" Yes, it is the most competent "Simpson's" game undoubtedly but still somehow manages to a sad, highly unoriginal bore.

"Hello. Am I speaking to the legal department of Electronic Arts? Yes, this is the legal team at Sega America and we are just calling to let you know that we are suing you breaking copyright." How that call never happened is beyond me. "Road Rage" rips EVERYTHING from the stellar Sega hit "Crazy Taxi" except the fun! Considering Sega's title is way over a year old so it's very peculiar that "Road Rage" in no way, shape or form decides to build on the "taxi" formula and make it into something of it's own. Yes, "Road Rage" has arguably better graphics (considering the hardware leap from Dreamcast to XBOX, it's nothing to write home about), many more vehicles and arenas, faster gameplay and the occasional hilarity of "The Simpson's" license but the gameplay surprisingly is nowhere as fun, challenging or deep as Sega's "Crazy Taxi."

There are 4 gameplay modes: Road Rage, Sunday Drive, Mission Mode and Head to Head. The premise of "Road Rage" is simple. You choose one of various Simpson's characters, drive around picking up various Simpson's characters and drop them off as quickly as possible while listening to audio excerpts of the characters dialog repeat. Depending on how quickly you delivered your passenger the higher the pay you receive. Sounds mighty familiar hey? This cycle is fun for about an hour then torturous soon after. "Road Rage's" in game clock is incredibly inconsistant and will sometimes give you less then 5 seconds to get your passenger to their destination a few blocks away when you still have a fair amount of time left of total game time or it'll give you 40 seconds to drive one block; it flat out kills the fun. Sunday Drive is exactly what the title implies; driving around town with no time limit or objectives exploring the arena's whatnots. Mission Mode is a pathetic, abundantly unfun exercise in running various objects over within a set amount of time. Head to Head is the only reason to play this game. The 2-player madness can be very entertaining but Head to Head has lame restrictions and doesn't flow as seemlessly (I mean this very loosely) as the 1-Player experience.

Cars or characters - which ever you want to call them - handle one of three ways. There are the fast cars are extremely touchy (Apu's Sports Car), balanced cars that have a satisfactory top speed and handle adequately but sound like they are stuck in second gear (Marge's 4x4 Canonaro) and the slow, borderline useless clunkers (Auto's School Bus). Most people will find themselves sticking to the unforgiving, speed orientated cars because once mastered (which doesn't take a whole lot of time) domination is inevitable.

The arenas range from o.k. to barely playable. "Evergreen Terrace" and the "Entertainment District" are the most balanced levels and the majority of gamers will find themselves playing those two most often. While their premise is novel arenas like "The Springfield Dam" and "Springfield Mountains" are too difficult to navigate due to their immensity and poor level design. "Downtown" suffers from sporadic slowdown and frame-rate dives that create a slightly nauseating experience. Roads in these are too narrow and hitting the side of the course can bring your cars to a complete stop. Not to mention Mr. Burns and his entirely spastic "atomic buses" blocking the road entirely and pushing your car into walls will leave an extremely bitter taste in your mouth.

Graphically "Road Rage" in really nothing to get excited over. The colorful, Simpson'esque atmosphere is suiting but visuals aren't as crisp as one should expect from the XBOX. There is a minor texture blur that reminds me a great deal - to a lesser degree - of the graphical style of the N64 title "South Park."

I am really happy the voice actors from the TV series recorded some new material for the game. I am really annoyed that they recorded so little. Phrases are very funny the first 10 or so times, but by the time the second or third game loads up using the same character you will have had it. Lisa, one of my favorite character on the show has very few things to say and soon becomes unmistakably irritating. Same can be said for the almost the entire cast of characters.

Lastly I have to touch on how unacceptably glitchy "Road Rage" is. I've had cars get stuck on walls, in the middle of the road and occasionally get stuck onto another car. Sometimes I had to quit the game because my car was wedged indefinitely. The collision detection needs a great deal of work. I can't tell you the last time I played a game where if you got enough air time you could fly through background scenery into gray, video game limbo and float there until your time eventually expires. Also the load times, which are nowhere near as horrible as the PS2 version's, are still noticeably bad. Consider how low tech this game appears and how powerful the XBOX is, the time spent at the "Now Loading..." screen is utterly unsatisfactory. "Road Rage" has "rushed" plastered all over it.

Don't waste your hard-earned cash on this uninspired rip-off. I heard Sega will eventually port "Crazy Taxi 2" to the XBOX. I recommend investing in the originator, not settling for a half-baked designer imposter.

ONE OF THE BEST GAMES I HAVE EVER PLAYED

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. It combines Crazy Taxi with Simpsons characters. Then, it throws in missions and bonus challenges. I love this game.

Yet another lousy licensed game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 19
Date: December 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The Simpsons: Road Rage is, at best, a Crazy Taxi wannabe. This is the worst title I've played on the Xbox yet. The Crazy Taxi premise is okay - CT is one of my favorite games - but Road Rage suffers on many levels.

The voice talent, while authentic, is very limited. Characters start repeating phrases within the space of a single run. It's annoying.

The graphics are a cross between bad cel-shading and an intern's first attempt at 3D extrusion. Blech.

The load times before and after each run are insane. I wonder if it's not a result of a "simple" port from one platform to another. This game was clearly not designed to take advantage of the Xbox's memory or graphic capabilities.

Rent it, play it, then get it out of your system - literally and figuratively.

More like Xbox own rage

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game, especially if your are a simpsons fan. There is nothing like driving around the large maps and catching the simpons personality in its full glory. My problem with this game is the glaring slownesss and bugs. For one, each level takes *WAY* to long to load, and often the game crashes during load times. This game has the disturbing "pop up" as well, meaning chracters, objects (such as tree's, cars, poles) just "Popup" out of nowhere, and aren't really rendered into the screen very well. Popup is supposed to be a thing of the past, it is said when you see such lacklaster quality on the nextgen consoles as this happens on the PS2 version as well. Some of the maps have turns and crossovers that are impossible to navigate since the direction hand telling you where to go will just spin around until you finally choose a direction and run for it.

Like other reviewers have said, sometimes the voice overs cross over and becoming confusing, often times you will hear Mr Burns, Yourself and your passenger talking at the same time and it gets a bit cluttered.

I certainly don't think the developer did what they could have done, for this game could have been a #1 seller had they spent more time on it. Due to the bugs, slowdown (yes, even when pilling through traffic it slowwwwwsss down and has popup) i recommend renting or waiting for this game to drop to a more affordable and attractive price of 29 bucks since it definatly isn't worth the 50 it is now. (sorry, but half done games deserve half price!!)

ON the lighter side, this game is fun if you can get around the bugs. I would rent it.

This game is a rental (from a huge Simpsons fan)...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Graphics are well done, although you'll never get the level of character detail found on the actual Simpson's cartoon... Gameplay is very straightforward although I was able to get the car "stuck" easily by going off some jumps and flipping over.

However, the game lacks the depth that games SHOULD possess for the XBOX platform... there are only 5 town areas and they are very quickly covered. Replay value is very low. Characters are well done (although they all have the same animation patterns). The voiceovers are the best part of the game in terms of entertainment value for Simpsons fans("Thank you, come again" -Apu)...

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