Crazy Taxi 3

Customer Rating:
Summary: CRAZY STUPID PICK ME UPS!
Comment: i've fantasized for years about crazy taxi for the gamecube
and eternal darkness for the CUBE as well back then
and i found crazy taxi 3 for cheap than the original
and i found the 3rd game had the 1st game in it as well
so i was really hyped to have grabbed it for the Xbox
it looks outdated, but it's still fun to play
'coz it's simple and fun

Customer Rating:
Summary: This game is not as fun as the originals but it is cheap
Comment: 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.

Customer Rating:
Summary: CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment: 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

Customer Rating:
Summary: A Must Buy Game
Comment: When I first played this game it was on a demo ... I had never played any previous versions so I didn't know what it was about. It only had one level (being a demo and all). But for only having one level, it was awesome. I knew that I had to get that game. So I bought it and played it all the time.

It's easy to play:

1. Pick a level
2. Pick a driver.
3. Right trigger go, left trigger stop, Y button hop, B button shift up, A button shift down.
Simple, basic, and most of all FUN. Overall, A MUST BUY GAME.

Customer Rating:
Summary: A ton of potential, but not a lot of energy
Comment: 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.