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.

[kahbee]

Just emulate it. Some of Sega's older ports on here like this are just horrible.

fortunately they seemed to have cleaned up their newer ones.. though that doesn't change the fact they'll never fix the older ones.

[Elegnaim]

Originally posted by Emcitement:

Just emulate it. Some of Sega's older ports on here like this are just horrible.

fortunately they seemed to have cleaned up their newer ones.. though that doesn't change the fact they'll never fix the older ones.

Dreamcast emulation is very, very hit-or-miss, and most of the isos floating around were made to be re-burned, and as such have had the music stripped out :T

Not that I care because I have an actual Dreamcast.

[Ace de Ignis]

I was disappointed greatly, when I bought this game. Controls, my controller wouldn't read, the music was a disappointment, man I loved playing this on my PS2, and it seems I will be saving my PS2 just for these awesome games.

[RayneR]

Bah, i'm also disapointed with this port for steam i was looking for the same soundtrack found on the original game and the new soundtrack is just lame and sucks.

[Poke'Montoya]

this port is amazing minus the soundtrack. but as said before, thats an easy fix, other than that it plays exactly the same as the one my dreamcast plays setup right under my computer...

[BananaJane]

Is KFC still in the game?

[Sonic63587]

Originally posted by BananaJane:

Is KFC still in the game?

No. It also doesn't have analog control and it's stuck at 720p.

[El Syd]

Originally posted by Smashbro29:

Originally posted by BananaJane:

Is KFC still in the game?

No. It also doesn't have analog control and it's stuck at 720p.

Odin's beard! The incompetence!

[upgrayedd]

Didn't have the nostalgia I was looking for. It's alright I guess, doesn't feel the same as the arcade version; assumably in-part because I'm not sitting at an arcade wheel and screen. I also thought the graphics would eb better for some reason. And yeah, the soundtrack is lame lol. At least my newly purchased 360 controller works with it. I had a Logitech controller that seemed to work with few games.

[Naterdamus]

I thought it was a good port, the soundtrack was amazing and was quite jarring not to have, but I already listen to "All I Want" like 5 times a day, and it's not like they have "Bad Habit" and Self-Esteem were kicking around in the game too. THPS this wasn't! The soundtrack while amazing in quality was quite limited.

My biggest issue is the difficulty, the core-game just seems easier than it did on the Dreamcast and the controls seem more responsive. This doesn't sound so bad, but it just "feels" wrong.

[The Snitch of Izalith]

I wonder why people keep saying that The Offspring is "amazingly awful, terrible lovable ♥♥♥♥" when it's just a good ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ band that makes decent music.

[Mayor McNasty]

Originally posted by 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.

From what I understand, Sega hired the cheapest studio to make ports, didn't include any source code and then didn't pay.