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Crazy Taxi: Catch A Ride | 
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Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  20 reviews
Platform: Game Boy Advance
Genre: Car and Truck Racing and Flying Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Game Boy Advance
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: 32124
UPC: 040001257126
EAN: 0040001257126
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| Features:
| • | Choose from the four original Crazy Taxi drivers -- each with their own abilities and driving style | | • | Race your way through 3 different cities and avoid traffic while finding shortcuts | | • | Time is money, so keep your eye on the clock -- you're racing the clock as you take all the fares you can before your shift is up | | • | Master the art of cab driving with 11 challenging mini-games | | • | Earn extra tips by executing Crazy Maneuvers like jumps, drifts, and more |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Crazy Taxi: Catch a Ride takes you a wild and hilarious ride through the city as a cab driver who believes in getting the fare there -- even if it means breaking every rule to do it!
Amazon.com Product Description
Crazy Taxi: Catch a Ride casts you as a fearless cabbie with a single goal: rack up the bucks before your shift ends. It's a race against the clock as you pick up passengers and white-knuckle it through busy streets and back alleys to their destinations. And time is money, so get a grip on the wheel, sharpen your senses, and don't lose your cool. You can choose from the four original Crazy Taxi cabbies and cars, each with his own unique style, and race across two cities filled with traffic and shortcuts. You can also master the art of cab driving with nine challenging minigames. Put your pedal to the metal with five fare difficulty levels, and earn extra tips by executing crazy maneuvers like jumps, drifts, and more.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 15 more reviews...
An Average Game !!!!!! October 1, 2005
Rogue Fox (the middle of nowhere,.....USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
When I first saw this game I thought to myself,....yes Crazy Taxi on the GBA. You can now play Crazy Taxi on the run, with this new portable version. I love all the Crazy Taxi games, including this one...yet it's not perfect by any means. When I first began playing it, I had a blast and kept on playing, and playing, like their was no tommorow.
Well, after awhile, their was nothing left to the game,.....!!! Their isn't much depth to the game at all, and after about 2-3 hours I've pretty much mastered the game, which didn't take much effort at all. I still had fun playing with the game awhile after though, but the flaws really killed the game, this game in reality could have been way better. I myself am not picky, but from graphics, to controls, and to the basic depth,... you can tell this game was just thrown together and mass produced to soon.
First, of all the game has some pretty bad graphics. The visuals are all chopy and messed up always has you crashing into something, I don't get it how could you go through part of a wall, but crash into a stupid tree or sign. Besides that the gameplay was fun, and very addictive. The gameplay in fact is probably the only thing that saved the game along with the Crazy Taxi name. The controls took awhile to get used of too, which wasn't a major problem for me but really using the L And R trigger to shift between reverse and forward, gosh.
Another problem was their are only two freakin' maps in the entire game; named city 1 and city 2; man thats original. Yes the maps are pretty decent size, pretty similar to all the other Crazy Taxi games in the past,... their wasn't anything to visually enjoy either. So I'm driving around, the environment is crap, the graphics suck, but oddly enough I still enjoy this game. I guess it's a gulity pleasure, but if the game testers and the rest of the production staff did their jobs this cold've been a masterpiece, but this is barely average, and to alot of people a disgrace.
After reading what I just said, it's most likely dicouraged you and pushed you away from buying this game. Despite the faults the gameplay never fails to satisfy, but it will get repetive. The game will be fun for Crazy Taxi fans, and people who are open minded and are into some "crazy" action on the go. I liked the game, but I feel that when I had to pay $29.99 at the time, that I had really over payed for this game. If, you find this game for around $10 in a bargain bin, be sure to pick it up.
Excellent gameplay, but horrible graphics, along with alot less depth that the other Crazy Taxi games has, but if you love Crazy Taxi cbut constantly on the go, this is a perfect game for that. The music, was annoying to so I ended up turning the volume down too, the sound wasn't that impressive either. So if you aren't picky and looking for something simple and new, or love Crazy Taxi be free to get this game. Yet, it's your call.... it's no must buy, but I saw this on sale at Game Stop for about $5 the other day, which is a steal.
GAME OVERVIEW:
Gameplay: 4/5- Very, fun and addictive. The gameplay is what save the game with, the good old classic feel of the original, now portable. Crazy Taxi fans will enjoy it. Had blast despite downfalls.
Controls: 3/5- A little different, but nothing to complicated. Easy to learn, nothing special, didn't like how the used the L and R trigger though... besides that the same controls as most driving games on the GBA.
Graphics: 1.5/5- Horrible, and no excuse of why they are this bad. Not, pretty at all....I've personaly seen better graphics on the original NES.
Sound: 2.5/5- Not that realistic, along with corny music, but still acceptable. Could have been better, but I've herad worst. The music though will sometimes drive you nuts.
Depth: 2.5/- Not much at all, only 2 maps with 4 drivers. A very simple game, but the mini games were pretty cool. Gosh, I was not impressed though. The maps were a decent size as well.
Overall: 3/5- Not the greatest game ever made, but I had some serious fun. The game doesn't look that good though but, some good action. Nothing to go run out and buy.... only buy if the prices range from $10 or under.
-Rogue Fox
Critic
Mega Gamer (since age:5)
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No lasting appeal whatsoever July 3, 2005
Dumb Blonde Reviewing (In my bed)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought this because a couple of years ago I watched my boyfriend play Grand Theft Auto, and the fact that he could hijack a taxi in that, and pick up passengers sounded quite entertaining to me. I got a GBA for my birthday, and ended up buying this.
Big mistake. I shouldn't be allowed in shops alone to buy GBA games, cos I choose rubbish!
OK, the game was OK to start with. I figured out how to work it, despite having no instructions, and having my licence taken off me on my first go. I carried on, and 'completed' it within a couple of hours. Actually, I don't think there's any way you can complete it, but once you're the number 1 taxi driver out there, there's nowhere else for you to go.
The graphics are also terrible on the GBA, and I don't know why. I 'crashed' into walls & other drivers so many times simply because I couldn't work out where I was going. I had about a couple of inches away from my face most of the time, just so I could work out where I was going.
The training sessions, aren't worth the hassle of playing. They're pointless, and the only one I half managed to do was crash into balloons, and I still only managed 12 out of 20. It's impossible to achieve what is expected of you during the training.
I quickly became tired of this game, although I've kept going back to it, simply because the other game I've got for the GBA is getting on my nerves now. Which funnily enough also has a training session, but if you don't pass the training, then you don't get to play the rest of the game.
The game's also very repetitive. You pick up the same passengers at the same places, and take them to the same destinations. If you change how much traffic there is on the roads in the options, then you do take them to different places, but I found I couldn't pick up as many passengers within the time limit. I managed to pick up nearly 20, but then it started repeating the destinations.
Overall I would not recommend this game to anyone, unless it's very very cheap, which mine was. I like the style of the game, and would keep an eye out for similar styles of games, but not this.
 Not a good game at all! December 28, 2004
Person (across the street)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Pros:
- Portable with the GBA
Cons:
- Horrible graphics.
- Horrible soundtrack.
- Very boring, have other GBA games that are very much funer and have better graphics.
- PS2 version is mcuh better.
- Mini games aren't even worth playing.
Overall, if you mistaked to buy this, just playing if you have absolutely nothing else do to. To other people who are going to purchase this, don't, it's not as good as you think.
 So-so December 10, 2004
Silver (Michigan)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's okay, not spectacular, there definitely have been worse, and there have definitely been better. It's okay, the turning leaves something to be desired, and the graphics seem a little choppy at times, but other than that, it's an okay game.
It's Alright July 15, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This game is alright for the GBA but if you didn't like the home console of Crazy Taxi then you will not like this game. It is fun in its own right but its not the best GBA game i own. The graphics in this game are kinda bad but if you get passed that then you can really enjoy this game (isn't it the gameplay that counts anyway). This game includes two cities one which you unlock later and after that there is really not that much to do put pick up people and drop them off. If this sounds boring to you then well you should not consder playing or purcasing this game. It's fun for a casual gamer but not fun for hardcore gamers. Overall i give this game a 7/10
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