There are two additional features to this version, the first being that
you can take a group of people around to several locations, but rather than
collecting customers individually, you'll find a group of up to four to pick up in
one go. Then visit the various destinations to drop them off before you can
move on to someone else.
The second feature is the unrealistic but fun "Crazy Hop". Pressing the Y
button makes your taxi hop into the air, which is useful for jumping up to a
higher freeway or clearing a line of traffic in front of you because there's
more vehicles about in this game making for a trickier game.
The graphics are basically the same as the first game which could be construed
as a problem since there's still pop-up from other cars from time to time and
when doing some of the sub-games I found it slowed down when I came a cropper
and fell from a great height. Also, I'd like to have seen some improved
physics and damage to your car, but no such luck.
The sound stays the same too, but I'd like to have seen the return of
The Offspring's "All I Want", which made the first game for me,
musically. The rev of the engine is useful when determining if a "Crazy Dash"
has worked.
The following bit is repeated from my original Crazy Taxi review as it also
applies here:
The handling of the car takes a little while to get used to and I find it's
easier to perform tight turns by using the D-pad and not the analogue joystick,
so tend to use that throughout most of the game. There's also special moves
to consider such as the aforementioned Crazy Dash and Limit Cut which will
take some time to perfect. At times, if you get involved in a crash it's
not always easy to tear your way out of it if there are several cars involved
and the time continues to tick down...
Hints and Tips
A personal tip I have: when you drop someone off, as the camera spins around,
try to spot another fare waiting to be picked up.
Thanks to The Great Cthulhu from uk.games.video.dreamcast for
his advice on Crazy Dashes and Limit Cuts :
When you start before you accelerate,put the car into R then straight into D
and accelerate if you get a fast start (no wheelspin) that's a Crazy Dash (CD)
(the engine pitch goes up real high). Use the same principle when you are
moving, it works easier when you are moving at speed.
Let go of Accelerate, shift into R, straight back into D then floor the
accelerator. Make sure your finger is completely off the accelerator when you
shift from D to R and back to D, it's really all in the timing.
Practice doing them from a dead stop then you'll know if it's working or not
and you'll get used to the engine noise that you should be hearing.
A Limit Cut is a CD straight after a CD, you need to do the second (or
third, fourth etc) CD just before the previous CD winds down, once again you
need to learn what noise the engine makes.
This should be all you need to know,it's basically a matter of timing, then
practice, practice, practice...........
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If you have to get to where you're going by not quite sticking to the roads,
then so be it. You can drive into the parking lot and jump off the first
floor, cruise down the railway line or underwater and I even managed to
replicate John McClane in Die Hard with a Vengeance when he drove
along the interstate, saw what he wanted was on the road below and just took
off from the side of the road to land down below with a thump.
