Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars

Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars (known as Crazy Taxi: Double Punch in Japan), is a PSP game, which is a port of both Crazy Taxi and Crazy Taxi 2. There is also a multiplayer aspect which was not available in the games' predecessors, where players compete against one another for customers and fare money. The game was developed by newly created Sniper Studios.

Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars
Developer(s)Hitmaker
Sniper Studios
Publisher(s)Sega
Designer(s)Stephen Frost
SeriesCrazy Taxi
Platform(s)PlayStation Portable
Release
  • NA: August 7, 2007
  • AU: September 27, 2007
  • EU: September 28, 2007
  • JP: August 14, 2008
Genre(s)Racing, action
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Gameplay

Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars combines both Crazy Taxi and Crazy Taxi 2 with new features that allow players to interact with their opponents in brand new ways unseen on other systems. Giving players the ability to play wirelessly with other PSP systems nearby through Ad Hoc or game sharing. Players can ram their opponent's cab to steal their fare or use the new interference feature to make them crash or slow down their fare delivery time.

Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars gives users the ability to record about 80 seconds of gameplay footage and then transfer it to a computer for media uses. Another feature unseen in previous Crazy Taxi games is the ability to play any MP3 files stored on a memory stick in-game. Almost all of the sound effects have been re-recorded and are completely different from older versions of Crazy Taxi.

Differences

The original game's soundtracks, containing songs by the bands Bad Religion, Methods of Mayhem and The Offspring, have been removed, as well as many of the real-world stores in-game due to licensing issues, though many retain the iconic designs of copyrighted stores (e.g. Pizza Parlor using Pizza Hut's red roof prior to 1999). However, the game allows custom soundtracks; MP3 files stored on the memory stick can be played in-game.[1] These changes were retained for the Xbox Live Arcade re-release of Crazy Taxi.

Other differences include the aforementioned multiplayer via Ad Hoc wireless, and game sharing, using only one copy of the game, and the ability to record your game footage; about 80 seconds of game footage is recordable and transferable.

Sniper Studios

Sniper Studios, LLC is an American game studio founded in Redwood City, California in 2005.[2] The only game they've developed is Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars.[3] Sega chose Sniper Studios since their staff worked on key titles such as NASCAR Arcade.

The company's management and staff includes producers, artists, designers, and developers with experience from leading publishers and titles in the industry including Electronic Arts, Activision, Sega, and 3DO. The studio was recognized as a licensed Xbox 360 developer on December 20, 2006.[4] In January 2012, the company website stated that it is under construction, however, their domain was put up for sale, so it can be assumed that they've shut down.[5]

Reception

The game received "mixed" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.[6]

References
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