Crazy Taxi heading to PSP

By Tom Bramwell Published 11 January, 2007

CT 1/2, with multiplayer.

Crazy Taxi's set to make a return this summer - with a PSP instalment mixing the content of the first two Dreamcast games and adding a few new features.

Called Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars, it's being developed by Sniper Studios and offers plenty of single-player content to barge your way through on the PSP's slick wide screen.

Using both original Crazy Taxi maps (arcade and Dreamcast) and the Small Apple maps of Crazy Taxi 2, Fare Wars offers an Arcade mode, where you earn time bonuses by delivering fares quickly, and a Time Trial, where the idea is to collect the highest fares possible in the time allowed.

On top of that there are two mini-game modes, including Crazy Box's original 16 mini tasks and a Crazy Pyramid to unlock the CT2 offerings.

Multiplayer is catered for too, via an ad hoc option that has you racing others and trying to steal their passengers by bumping cars.

Finally, SEGA says you'll be able to save replays of your best moments onto Memory Stick so you can show them off to your mum. Hopefully you'll have better luck than I do - she still refuses to take interest in my best Pro Evo goals. Witch.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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  • Hog-lumps #1 5 years ago

    Hmmm, you could say yet another racer for the PSP..........

    However who can resist the charms of crazy taxi? :p

  • AcidSnake #2 5 years ago

    Sounds like fun...

  • ecureuil #3 5 years ago

    PSP is becoming a portable Dreamcast.. what with this and Powerstone. Awesome. :D

  • SpacemanX #4 5 years ago

    Great news. Hopefully Sniper Studios don't f*** this up.

  • peterfll #5 5 years ago

    Smashing. If I could actually be bothered to use my PSP.

  • Hog-lumps #6 5 years ago

    I'd imagine the mini games will be perfect for 'on the move' gaming too.

  • AcidSnake #7 5 years ago

    Oh! And just imagine playing crazy taxi while you're in a...Wait for it!...Taxi!!

  • Hog-lumps #8 5 years ago

    Oh! And just imagine playing crazy taxi while you're in a...Wait for it!...Taxi!!

    \head explodes!

  • dmigsy #9 5 years ago

    Wow, a whole game that's just like a side mission in GTA. Woo........................hoo.

  • schoozzzmmii #10 5 years ago

    /laughs at dmigsy for completely missing the point of arcade games.

  • Hog-lumps #11 5 years ago

    Have you played crazy taxi dmigsy? I think you being overly harsh there.........

  • peterfll #12 5 years ago

    I'll take 10 minutes of Crazy Taxi over 10 minutes of GTA any day.

    But then I'm weird I guess.

  • SimonM7 #13 5 years ago

    Wow, a whole game that's just like a side mission in GTA.

    Oh jesus.


    Anyway, why are these things ending up on PSP and nowhere I'd actually be able to enjoy it in multiplayer? Powerstone was just as fucking lost on the system because I can't get anyone within miles to get a PSP.. and I wouldn't even be able to convince them with a straight face that one is really worth having. :(

  • ConsoleCowboy #14 5 years ago

    Hope they fix the damn pop-ups, DC-Fans will surely remember. And Offspring FTW!!!!

  • Pac-man-ate-my-wife #15 5 years ago

    Most overrated game ever.

  • Cuke #16 5 years ago

    fun as it may turn out to be, why for the love of God is this yet another PSP title that although perfectly suited still fails to offer sodding infrastructure support!!!

    grrr!

  • sickpuppysoftware #17 5 years ago

    That's my wife happy then. About the only game she'll play other than singstar

  • Nobuo #18 5 years ago

    "Most overrated game ever."

    Personally I have to look quite hard to find any rating of Crazy Taxi, good or bad.

    Anyway if you ask me all this Sega support lately is making the PSP a much more exciting console.

  • dadrester #19 5 years ago

    give us shenmue 1 and 2 for psp!!!

  • Steroyd #20 5 years ago

    I hope the infrastructure mode gets used more often or get more flexible with gameshare now that the PS3 has launched as nice as it is to implement ad-hoc it's freaking hard to find someone else with a PSP let alone a PSP + same game you own.

  • jonsaan #21 5 years ago

    yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwn. Hopefully they'll render it almost toally unplayable by introducing immense loading times just like Powerstone! Huzzah.

  • dmigsy #22 5 years ago

    I played Crazy Taxi in the arcade years ago. Was fun for the few minutes at time I'd play it(and the couple of quid spent on it). Fecked if I'd play it more than once now.

  • Hughes. #23 5 years ago

    Keep the DC stuff coming. Space Channel 5 and Jet Grind Radio would be spangly. Shenmue? Can't see it, but you never know.

    Never mind playing Crazy Taxi, in a taxi... Imagine playing Shennmue, WITH SAILORS, IN A BAR, AT NIGHT!

  • IP #24 5 years ago

    Well, it can't be any worse than the GBA version.

  • Der_tolle_Emil #25 5 years ago

    I never got around playing Crazy Taxi. There was a time when I thought I'd get it for the cube but interestingly it was nowhere to find in the stores. Do you think I should get it second hand now?

  • Goffee #26 5 years ago

    So is the PSP now officially the Portable DC? Not a bad niche but still a niche... Dreamcasters Unite... hut... hut... hut

  • spongebob #27 5 years ago

    PSP needs more quality games. Hard to say if Crazy Taxi is that. Never quite understood what the big deal was with the Dreamcast version. Arcade original I haven't even tried.

  • SimonM7 #28 5 years ago

    Crazy Tazi is amazing, it really, truly is. If anything it's sort of... anti-praised because there was praise and people didn't get it so it sort of backlashed.

    Most people don't even know about all the maneuvers in the game which basically MAKE the game, and therefore make comments like the GTA side mission one. Once you get to grips with all the different moves it's a total blast, but what it needs is proper leaderboards on a proper stationary system. Whilst this may be good, it just can't possibly fulfil its potential.

    Oh and 1 is certainly the best with CT2 feeling pretty different. Mixing the two can result in anything really, here's hoping it's more inspired than the Xbox's "Crazy Taxi 3". More like Crazy Mishmash.

    Except for the Silverbullit songs on the soundtrack that is. Good stuff.

  • trevd72 #29 5 years ago

    another reason for me not to bother with my psp. but i keep forgetting i am an old fart who has played games since '80. So i guess there are loads of young'ins who have not played this splendid game.

  • MrFlintBlackman #30 5 years ago

    Mooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

  • infoxicated #31 5 years ago

    This could well be a great game for the PSP - I always felt Crazy Taxi lost something in the transition to consoles, because the pressure of getting just one more fare in before the timer ran out was relieved by the fact it wasn't costing you anything to play.

    It's a great short dip arcade game, though, and if it comes out at a sensible price then I'll have cash in hand.