God damn did I want to like this one more. It generally just plays better, especially with the new Crazy Hop. The soundtrack is all Offspring this time around which is great if you like that kind of stuff, which I absolutely do.
The new maps are so much, much worse here. The unsung beauty of the OG Crazy Taxi was its brilliant map and road structure, where after the initial downhill descent is a city so easily navigatable. Roads merge and flow into district after district, landmark after landmark, and the navigation arrow seamlessly pointed you into the correct direction without ever getting you lost.
That unfortunately just wasn't the case for me this time around. After 3 hours and doing every map, garnering mountains of E and D licenses did I realize that I just kept getting fucking lost. Roads are bookended by miles of repeating skyscrapers with unremarkable points of interest that just pass you by. So needlessly complicated too is the layout of the roads, which is where all sense of navigation just utterly fail. How am I consistently following the arrow yet it shows I'm getting further from the destination? In addition to the nav arrow seemingly leading me in the wrong direction, too quickly and jarringly will it just suddenly turn the opposite direction down the middle of a road. It snaps so poorly amidst this dreadful web of identical urban sprawl that I, for the life of me, cannot ever trust it 80% of the time. This is all due in part to how absurdly complex some of the road structure is, roads upon roads intersecting, going in pointless loops to nowhere, all the while your navigation is just fucking with you. I did not, even once, find The Hotel. Every passenger that wanted to go to The Hotel was a game ender. Where the fuck was that hotel. I couldn't find it with 3 full minutes.
The new maps are so much, much worse here. The unsung beauty of the OG Crazy Taxi was its brilliant map and road structure, where after the initial downhill descent is a city so easily navigatable. Roads merge and flow into district after district, landmark after landmark, and the navigation arrow seamlessly pointed you into the correct direction without ever getting you lost.
That unfortunately just wasn't the case for me this time around. After 3 hours and doing every map, garnering mountains of E and D licenses did I realize that I just kept getting fucking lost. Roads are bookended by miles of repeating skyscrapers with unremarkable points of interest that just pass you by. So needlessly complicated too is the layout of the roads, which is where all sense of navigation just utterly fail. How am I consistently following the arrow yet it shows I'm getting further from the destination? In addition to the nav arrow seemingly leading me in the wrong direction, too quickly and jarringly will it just suddenly turn the opposite direction down the middle of a road. It snaps so poorly amidst this dreadful web of identical urban sprawl that I, for the life of me, cannot ever trust it 80% of the time. This is all due in part to how absurdly complex some of the road structure is, roads upon roads intersecting, going in pointless loops to nowhere, all the while your navigation is just fucking with you. I did not, even once, find The Hotel. Every passenger that wanted to go to The Hotel was a game ender. Where the fuck was that hotel. I couldn't find it with 3 full minutes.