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Quick Look: Crazy Taxi

Excuse me driver, I've lived here my whole life. Take the river, it's faster.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Nov. 17 2010

Cast: Jeff, Brad

Posted by: Vinny

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Crazy Taxi

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Without the music it's just not Crazy Taxi.

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No, no, no, no, NO!

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NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH Not Buying.

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@NekuSakuraba: If they have to gut the music from JGR to re-release it on XBLA like they did with this release, I'd rather not see it... :(
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Love you kids

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Love you kids

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Edited By MintBerryCrunch

I love this game, use to waste all my money playing this when my parents abandoned me at the tiny arcade that was located at the casino while they go gamble...

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Edited By EndrzGame
@Dizzyhippos said:
" They need to do a shenmue re-release "
I too would love a Shenmue re-release, but I wouldn't hold my breath. In the mean time if you want a Shenmue fix and have a 360 you can get it HERE. It's backward compatible with the 360 and it looks pretty good. I still have my copy from when I had the first XBox. A little pricey for a new copy but so worth it if ya ask me.
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@Godot said:
" Man, no more YAH YAH YAH YAH YAH at the start of every game you played :( I learned to both hate and love that song. "
I wish they kept it in :'(
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Oh wow, I totally remember the city and everything, I haven't played this for ages but I felt really nostalgic there.

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What no Pizza Hut, Tower Records, Offspring & Bad Religion...  WTF!
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I miss the Offspring in this.

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I guess I'll dig up my old faithful DC instead of cashing up for this sub port. No Bad Religion, no buy 8(.

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Never ever liked this game.

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@MykeMorte said:

" @captain_clayman said:

"is this a more stable port than sonic?  i've heard complaints about sonic  WAIT WAIT.  NO OFFSPRING?  no buy. "
Seconded, I can get that not everyone is an Offsprings fan but it was the music that really made the game for me. "
Oh use your head, you have a harddrive I wonder what you can install on that??/ Hmmmmm...
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No boosting.. I cant watch this!

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@nail1080 said:
"@MykeMorte said:

" @captain_clayman said:

"is this a more stable port than sonic?  i've heard complaints about sonic  WAIT WAIT.  NO OFFSPRING?  no buy. "
Seconded, I can get that not everyone is an Offsprings fan but it was the music that really made the game for me. "
Oh use your head, you have a harddrive I wonder what you can install on that??/ Hmmmmm... "

True but that overrides a lot of the other in game sound too when I have tried it with other games. 
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Didnt age well at all

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well that waaas.. crazy.

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I loved this back on the dreamcast and will probably pick this up. Really going to miss the Offspring. I guess I'll just loop an MP3 

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@nail1080 said:
" @MykeMorte said:

" @captain_clayman said:

"is this a more stable port than sonic?  i've heard complaints about sonic  WAIT WAIT.  NO OFFSPRING?  no buy. "
Seconded, I can get that not everyone is an Offsprings fan but it was the music that really made the game for me. "
Oh use your head, you have a harddrive I wonder what you can install on that??/ Hmmmmm... "
If Sega can't be assed to get the rights for the songs, we shouldn't be assed to buy their lazy port
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I do hope that at some point they release Jet Grind Radio as I've only played JSRF and had a ton of fun in that.

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I have All I Want on my ipod AS WE SPEAK

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Edited By oasisbeyond

Looks pretty much exaclty like the original sd version, I guess it's just for it to look normal on hd tv's. Anyways I don't like remakes, keep them classics on the consoles.

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This game doesn't seem to have aged well. :(

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Jeff couldn't be more pro; remembering all that secret codes crap for like every single game EVER. I worship the man.

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Wolfman Jack did not find your driving to be crazy enough.

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A crazy taxi without The Offspring is no crazy taxi I want to play.

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How can this not be on the psp? Seems a pretty good fit for a quick play portable

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@airules: i believe they did release a crazy taxi game on the psp
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@zoner said:
" @nail1080 said:
" @MykeMorte said:

" @captain_clayman said:

"is this a more stable port than sonic?  i've heard complaints about sonic  WAIT WAIT.  NO OFFSPRING?  no buy. "
Seconded, I can get that not everyone is an Offsprings fan but it was the music that really made the game for me. "
Oh use your head, you have a harddrive I wonder what you can install on that??/ Hmmmmm... "
If Sega can't be assed to get the rights for the songs, we shouldn't be assed to buy their lazy port "
I'm blasting it in another tab. Quicklook Achieved! Ya ya ya ya ya!
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Such a  beautiful sounding menu =']

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The omission of Offspring ruins this version of Crazy Taxi for me. Luckily I still have the DC version hooked up.

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@Soap said:
" Crazy Taxi was never cool. Ever. There I said it.  "
Yes, it was. It was called Crazy Taxi 3 on the Xbox, it had both Crazy Taxi cities from the first two games, plus a Las Vegas rip off. Plus you can make your car jump. Amazing. 
 

@takua108 said:
" Meh... 
 
But if they put out Smashing Drive, the far superior taxi-based arcade game, out on XBLA, I'd buy it instantaneously.  (It probably doesn't hold up as well as I remember it being in the arcades.) "
Oh jeez, Smashing Drive. Smashing Drive is what I played when I had 20 minutes to kill until the next Wedding Crashers showing, the other kids hogged up the Arctic Thunder & Police 911 2 machines and the fierce punch was broken on the Ultracade cabinet. Memories, but not very good ones. Kinda fun but those graphics & that soundtrack were horrendous.
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I had this game on the PS2 years back. I even managed to get S Ranks on both Arcade and Original as well as spending hours and hours completing Crazy Box. 
I really had thought about getting this for the sake of nostalgia, but, as many others have said, the lack of Bad Religion and the Offspring (especially Bad Religion's 'Inner Logic' when you get an S-Rank at the end of arcade) as well as the brand names being included is kind of a turn off. 

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They can snip out the branding and such but Crazy Taxi is not Crazy Taxi without Offspring. Copyright BS is why we can't have nice things )=

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Pains me to see my beloved Crazy Taxi much worse than it was back then, but hey I knew I wouldn't buy this when I learned about the soundtrack change.

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I'm wating for 2, cos that was my favourite, and hopefully 3 as well, cos i never played that one.

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oh this is backward compat on series X! i wonder how it looks on it.