This is a terrible port.

[RaccøønDruid]

This game must be optimized for tablets or something, because this particular port is atrocious, easily the worst I've seen.

I played Crazy Taxi back in the day in the arcade. I bought it for my Sega Dreamcast. Later, I bought it AGAIN for computer from an Electronics Boutique (remember those? I don't) on sale.

And then finally, more recently, I bought this game on Steam, thinking a couple bucks for a classic game wouldn't be so bad, and it'd save me the trouble of having to root around looking for my discs ever again. Man, was that a mistake.

Most obviously, the game doesn't have the original music. Half the fun of playing Crazy Taxi was listening to the horrible 90's-cool soundtrack and feeling ashamed of loving the stuff when you were a kid, but secretly rocking out to it inside your head, safe from the prying eyes of others. I guarantee that almost all purchases made of this game will be nostalgia-based, and if the game can't deliver nostalgia, then what's the point?

And honestly, it doesn't really help that Sega slapped some horrible low-budget modern soft pop-punk crap in place of the previously amazingly awful and wonderful for it harder Offspring stuff. It doesn't sound like much, but it makes an enormous change in the feel of the game.

There's a multitude of other ways the game simply is the worst Crazy Taxi yet, including lack of fullscreen on my admittedly unorthodox 1600x1200, no native support for my Logitech Rumblepad2 (which the previous computer version of Crazy Taxi had out of the box), and an inability to get the game to recognize my speakers as Stereo. The previous Crazy Taxi released on the computer could do all these things - why can't this one?

In fact, I've actually started looking for the old Crazy Taxi disc anew, just so I can finally re-play the PROPER version of this game. It's a shame, because I love Steam and its delivery system, but this port of the game is simply terrible.

[PhillyBluntIV20]

i feel you man if you have a iphone or ipod touch they have crazy taxi their with the orignal music.

[RaccøønDruid]

That is bizarre. My theory was that it was some licencing issue, and they just took the lowest bidder for the replacement.

The new music seems so much less - for lack of better 90's slang - Bangin', than it was in the arcade, and it really changes the feel of the whole experience.

[☺rEZ☺]

i use sweetfx and this game responds well to forcing AA too which is nice

[☺rEZ☺]

but yeah the textures could have been HD'd

[Sharkbite_75]

No OST is good to know, I was just about to buy this.

[Tatakae Genshijin]

Can always mod it to make it better.... Changing the music back to the original is easy! Just convert the old soundtrack to adx files and replace them like this - http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=125816692

Now we can all at least enjoy Offspring or even make the soundtrack to however ya like it!

[Leathergief]

Its still playable which is what i wanted - sure Offspring isnt there - but i can use xbox 360 controller and it feels good - just doesnt dazzle

[Sonic63587]

No analog control though. It's bonkers how ♥♥♥♥ this port is.

[Marz Matrix]

Mods.

[RaccøønDruid]

Originally posted by Phantasm:

Mods.

If the last computer version of Crazy Taxi I bought had all these things out of the box, why shouldn't this one?

The fact that you can exert way more effort than you should to fix it with mods doesn't change it being a terrible port.

[Marz Matrix]

Originally posted by Captain Smiles:

Originally posted by Phantasm:

Mods.

If the last computer version of Crazy Taxi I bought had all these things out of the box, why shouldn't this one?

The fact that you can exert way more effort than you should to fix it with mods doesn't change it being a terrible port.

Sure, I don't disagree. When I get the game I will see how much of it can actually be fixed and I will return with more information. I just know for sure the music can be fixed. As for using a logitech controller... what is that a steering wheel I hope? If not, I don't see why you would want to use a logitech controller. But yes, this is a terrible port... I find alot of ports terrible...some ok.... few are good.

[wearecity]

I agree here, this game is so bad, even if it was free, it would still be a rip off and waste of time playing. Quite how anyone could actually consider this should even be available for sale is beyond me.

[Aldes]

Worst-port-ever.

[Driglok]

I was so upset when I found out the kick ass Bad Religion + Offspring soundrack were no longer there. I played just a bit of the game and threw up my hands in rage, went into my closset, pulled out my dreamcast, plugged it in, and played the game propper.

[Ehergiz D'Skarr]

Sincerely wish I'd looked at the forums for even two minutes before going "Oh man this game is on steam buybuybuy" I would've been less disappointed.