Crazy Taxi 2 (Dreamcast)

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Russ Pitts of The Escapist gave it four stars out of five: "In spite of dated graphics and other technical whizbangery, Crazy Taxi will remind you why you love driving games – and who started that fire. Players can choose from easy to handle boats or ones that fly through the course faster than an erratic fruit fly on speed, using boost ramps to get from A to B without crashing and hopefully beating your opponents. In a similar vein to SoulCalibur, each Mecha Warrior has its own storyline to play through in the story mode. Fighters can be stunned when knocked down on water/ice, and blocking is just as important as button-mashing. Critics noted the lack of depth given that it was a port of an arcade game, some difficulties with the destination arrow, and the poor " Wolfman Jack" impersonation of the in-game announcer.

Crazy Taxi 2 - Metacritic

If you know anything about the Dreamcast — Sega’s last-ditch, initially-successful but inevitably-doomed attempt to rescue its hardware business — you likely know it was the first gaming console designed with internet connectivity out of the box.Despite the addition of new maps, the lack of new gameplay elements caused Crazy Taxi 3 to be panned by reviewers.

Crazy Taxi 2 - Old Games Download

If you’ve had a look at our best PS4 fishing games article, for example, then this will be right up your street. The storyline is, as you would expect from an RPG, very intricate with lots of hidden twists and turns along the way. Michael Goncalves of PALGN added that the game was either a "love or hate" title, adding "if you love it, you will cherish the game and play it to your hearts content". Good games need to evoke a strong reaction with players, even if it is being scared out of your pants. Starting with Crazy Taxi 2, the gameplay included the ability to pick up a party of passengers, each having a different destination.Like F355 Challenge, the car physics and controls are all super realistic and help to make the game more challenging. Over the next few years, the game would be ported to the Dreamcast, GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Windows. The controls and gameplay are all very similar to other versions that have come both before and after it.

Crazy Taxi 2 for Dreamcast - GameFAQs

The game cannot be played indefinitely; while there are hundreds of potential passengers to pick up and deliver, there are only a limited number of fares in the game. It’s a solid game with a really immersive storyline that will enchant even the toughest of gamers out there. In 2001, Richard Donner was attached to a live-action version of Crazy Taxi but eventually bailed out on the project.Ok, so it’s not knocking out Kaijus or battling with Megatron, but chasing bad dudes with fruit in a kick-ass robot is still cool…kind of. Once the main clock reaches zero, the game is over, and the player is ranked and rated based on the total earned. Ryu and the gang always appear in our ‘top games’ compendiums, so it’s not really a surprise that we’re seeing them here in our list of the best Dreamcast games. You can play this game in single-player mode, but it’s really designed as an online multiplayer title.