Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller

"This game is CRAZY man!"

Welcome to Crazy Taxi 3 where anything at all is a possibility! Here you'll meet some of the most Craziest drives every! Are you ready?

To sum the entire game up, Crazy Taxi 3 is a port of both 1 and 2 with a little something extra. And its something good and fun as well! If your not familiar with the entire Crazy Taxi games, then your in for a treat. You have a limited amount of time to pick a passenger up, drive him to his location, and make his time limit minding your own. If you get him to his location with a good 20 seconds left or so, and if you had unbelievable ride as well (by unbelievable I mean you've rode the taxi next to other cars really close, and you didn't hit them) - you'll get tipped lots. And that's the entire gameplay of Crazy Taxi. At the end of the game, you'll find out how good you did. Your total money is add up, and you get a ranking - S, A, B, C, and D. If you noticed the best ranking is S and the worse is D. Somehow Sega always includes a ranking system in all of their games. Kinda freaky eh?

Along with the career mode, you'll get Crazy Taxi X mode. In here, you have to complete the challenges they give you. The challenges can be crazy such as get to a point on time. However, you'll be somewhere really high where if you fall - its over. Crazy Taxi 3 also introduces a new added feature as well - the jump and boost mode. In the jump, you basically press a button and jump 50 feet in the air - literally. In boost mode, you'll press another button and your tire tracks will light on fire and you'll get speed. On of my favorite Crazy Taxi X mode is where your on a football field (obviously the football is inside your car), and your trying to get to the other end with cars, buses, and tracks in your way trying to stop you. Don't be so surprised, its hard as well seeing as its 100 against 1. But also very fun. Another favorite mode of mine is where your on a field and there's a hurricane in your way throwing cars in front of you trying to slow you down. Which I forgot to explain - if you don't get to where your suppose to be before the time runs out, mission over. The entire mode is really fun, but its one of the hardest things I've experienced in all my gaming years (Yes I played Halo's Legendary and this compares).

Crazy Taxi 3 also includes a soundtrack of Offspring and a lot of other punk bands which is great fun. The graphics are looking not the bad as well. Crazy Taxi 3 also includes all of the courses and drives from the past Crazy Taxis. You'll get to race in their courses as well including Los Vegas - a new course for CT3. If you enjoyed the originals, you'll enjoy this one as its jammed packed with extra features. No custom soundtrack I'm afraid, and no multiplayer which could have fit the game like butter on popcorn. Still, its really fun, and worth a buy if you can find it somewhere cheap like EBGames. My recommendation.

Final Reviewed Score: 8/10 - Great!

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 08/31/03