Videogame Review, Crazy Taxi 3 for the Microsoft Xbox (New Game, RF Connection)

Videogame Review, Crazy Taxi 3 for the Microsoft Xbox (New Game, RF Connection)

You’ll probably stare at my review with a dumb look on your face.  What?  Crazy Taxi 3?  Yep.  For the era I played this sequel (early 2000’s), this was the best Crazy Taxi game to own.  It has a lot of entertainment flowing through its system for nice shades of grey illustrated in glossy, urban areas related to a taxi driver’s job in making lots of money and nearly killing people.  That sounds funny when I say it that way!  You’ll see three sets given on the menu- in fact, each world acts as its own game in its own right because you can toggle the timers enough to ride through avenues and streets within irrational reason of profit while on the go for the dough.  Make sure your TV doesn’t have too much altered contrast; I know, because the city areas in particular can go through some downloading issues in relation to the TV’s contrast since the game is connected between a huge, dark machine and the televisor equipment.  Selecting a driver is more of a big deal.  Variety comes into play where different players from across the taxi-driving coast present their obstacles from unique, inexplicable skills that are entertained on by Sega through voice action, drifting and fading lights, and whacky arrow icons leading to destinations either via general heading or specific-street crossing.  Honestly, I think my jump button could’ve used some work.  My hands are attached to the controller in an odd fashion in gear for the refined, smaller controller device provided from Microsoft after numerous complaints from the public issued about the original, giant controller device- is it an improvement?  In particular, is it an improvement over the Sega Dreamcast controller?  Yes and no.  Although my hands are figuratively parallel to Microsoft’s old “small” controller from the 2000’s past era, usually my fingers are thinking of different directions where the buttons won’t quite fit that snugly, and, ironically, I actually prefer the Dreamcast controller’s grips as opposed to those for this Microsoft controller.  Looking at the buttons is the easiest part.  However, once you’ve grabbed the controller and start playing with it the general design gets in its own way from button management issues- it’s not just the black and white buttons but also the rest of the buttons: they’re too small and its texture and feel is slippery.  Crazy Taxi 3 through RF connection is obviously a great deal better than lots of my old Atari games played through a similar TV-antenna-connection interface.  Colors of the rainbow are very pretty even if Crazy Taxi 3 likes to tone down variable shades of grey into ghostly images as cars are driving in the haze and mist of modest city landscapes.  Landscapes as a whole don’t fall much into the glittery category even if there’s a shift and gear along the lines of urban sprawls and poorly designed jumping areas.  Voices become muffled at times; that’s okay, because my RF connection makes me feel like a million bucks over the horizons into intense, chaotic traffic lines in gear for slumber and vanity under a passenger’s demands for speed into luxury- baseball stadiums, funny labels, dumb luck, foul play, stupid location icons, etc.  Jumping is the culprit to some mismanagement along the lines of wild play where less credit is due, and, by this analysis under my gaze it appears Crazy Taxi 3 is filled with confusion among Dreamcast elements and Xbox elements.  Really it just feels like the entire product is waiting in line for my questioning remark until the picture is obscured from art by magnificent error.