Product description
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The Crazy Taxi Cab Co. has set up shop in New York City, and the
streets of the Big Apple will never be the same. Hop into your
ride and scour the city for fares. Race against the clock for a
big payoff!
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Crazy Taxi 2 is set in the most taxi-crazed city of them all:
New York. Leaving the California sun behind, this sequel has a
grittier, more urban aesthetic--and an attitude to match. Though
the object of the game is still to pick up and shuttle fares
across the city, Crazy Taxi 2 sports better graphics, new and
returning drivers, more missions, and a wild new jump feature
that lets you clear cars and intersections at the touch of a
button. Adding to the game's challenge are cab-sharing groups of
people who aren't always going to the same place.
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Review
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Cab-based craziness is back in town, but this time around the
game's left its fair-weather roots and packed off to the mean
streets of New York. The long-awaited, highly anticipated sequel
to Crazy Taxi is finally in , and looking great. Developer
Hitmaker is back in the driver's seat, and if it can manage to
capture just half of the addictive action of the first, a whole
lot of DC gamers will be quite happy come this spring. As becomes
a sequel, Crazy Taxi 2 will receive the usual updates: better
graphics (especially in the backgrounds and environments) more
options and, of course, more craziness.
Not surprisingly, the development team has chosen not to fool
too much with what's under the hood. Picking up fares and getting
them to their destination in the most haphazard,
whiplash-inducing manner possible is still the goal of the game,
but some in-game tweaking should help make the action twice as
addictive as before. For starters, cabbies will be able to pull
off a little jump -- catching air was a big part of the first,
but now players will be able to avoid traffic, clear gaps and
even take to the rooftops.
As before, a wide range of weird and wacky clients will prowl the
streets in search of a ride. This time around, though, parties
will need rides too -- and they won't necessarily all be going to
the same place. As in real life, getting each and every one to
their respective destinations is the only way to collect the full
fare -- it's quite a risk, but the rewards can be great.
Making the jump from West Coast to East means introducing a new
cast of characters, too. Whether the game's designers will be
including any of the curiously stereotypical characterizations
from the first game remains to be seen, but we're quite certain
that each of these drivers will be suitably crazy -- which is the
only way to drive in New York. Replacing Axl and the gang are
Cinnamon, Hot-D, Iceman and Slash. Cinnamon's a sassy urbanite
whose ride is a big, orange cruiser. Hot-D is the suicidal type
(even for a cabbie) -- his cab's a classic, but there's a real
hot rod engine under the hood. Iceman is the classiest of the
crew; his cab is decked out for luxury, and his body's decked out
with tribal tattoos. Slash is your standard, straight-up standby;
his car is standard and he's purportedly both cool and crazy --
which seems to be a standard in the Crazy Taxi universe.
Few other details have been released, other than that The
Offspring will once again contribute to the soundtrack, and that
the Methods of Mayhem will also be chipping in. Any gamer who's
lost a good chunk of change and time to the original knows that
as long as the addictive arcade action from first has been
maintained, it's sure to be a smash.
Thanks to US Famitsu.comfor the info. -- DailyRadar Review
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