SEGA Hitches a Portable Ride
And Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars is born!
Published: January 11, 2007
Fond, fond memories we have of tearing through the streets of San Francisco with a blatant disregard for traffic laws or pedestrian well-being, all in a self-absorbed effort to drop some drooling fool off at the local KFC and snatch our much-deserved fare. Uh, in a videogame that is, because God forbid we do the same outside the TPS offices.
We speak of course of Crazy Taxi, and as long as it’s been since we unleashed our disastrous driving skills on an arcade/Dreamcast, the rise of the portable generation has given new hope (and for SEGA, another chance to cash in on its seemingly endless catalog of classics). The answer is Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars, a double-scoop of the original two Dreamcast games with the kind of mad extras and fleshed out multiplayer you might expect from a remake.
"With over 2.7 million games sold to date in the Crazy Taxi franchise, SEGA is excited to bring back such a popular series from our vault of classics," grinned Scott A. Steinberg, Vice President of Marketing, SEGA of America, Inc. "Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars is fun, frantic, and highly addictive, and perfect for gamers on the go.”
Is it a leisurely ride down Familiar Rd. you want? Perhaps the identical single-player ports of Crazy Taxi, including the original arcade and Dreamcast maps, and Crazy Taxi 2, with its New York-inspired streets and landmarks, will do you just right. For the rest of you, a brand new multiplayer mode is waiting to be experienced, where your can actually steal your opponent's passengers with a simple nudge to their car. Two cabbies can play either competitively or cooperatively via Ad Hoc.
Also included are two new mini-game training modes: Crazy Box, featuring 16 original Crazy Taxi mini-games, and Crazy Pyramid for the sequel, where players can tackle the challenges as they’re arranged in a pyramid. Got an in-game performance from Crazy Taxi 2 you’re particularly proud of? Save it and show it off with your PSP memory stick.
With newly-formed developer Sniper Studios on the project, Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars goes into full gear this summer. Peep the first handful of screenshots to see what’s in store.
We speak of course of Crazy Taxi, and as long as it’s been since we unleashed our disastrous driving skills on an arcade/Dreamcast, the rise of the portable generation has given new hope (and for SEGA, another chance to cash in on its seemingly endless catalog of classics). The answer is Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars, a double-scoop of the original two Dreamcast games with the kind of mad extras and fleshed out multiplayer you might expect from a remake.
"With over 2.7 million games sold to date in the Crazy Taxi franchise, SEGA is excited to bring back such a popular series from our vault of classics," grinned Scott A. Steinberg, Vice President of Marketing, SEGA of America, Inc. "Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars is fun, frantic, and highly addictive, and perfect for gamers on the go.”
Is it a leisurely ride down Familiar Rd. you want? Perhaps the identical single-player ports of Crazy Taxi, including the original arcade and Dreamcast maps, and Crazy Taxi 2, with its New York-inspired streets and landmarks, will do you just right. For the rest of you, a brand new multiplayer mode is waiting to be experienced, where your can actually steal your opponent's passengers with a simple nudge to their car. Two cabbies can play either competitively or cooperatively via Ad Hoc.
Also included are two new mini-game training modes: Crazy Box, featuring 16 original Crazy Taxi mini-games, and Crazy Pyramid for the sequel, where players can tackle the challenges as they’re arranged in a pyramid. Got an in-game performance from Crazy Taxi 2 you’re particularly proud of? Save it and show it off with your PSP memory stick.
With newly-formed developer Sniper Studios on the project, Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars goes into full gear this summer. Peep the first handful of screenshots to see what’s in store.