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I'm sure the new Xbox exclusive Crazy Taxi: High Roller will be as enjoyable and playable as the first two in the fun-packed series, but if it was up to me, this is what I'd have done with the 3rd game.
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Swap the busy urban streets of San Francisco & New York for the dusty roads of the Mid West American countryside.
Replace the inner-city customers with classic American country characters like cowboys & girls, Elvis impersonators, Hell's Angels, Bible-bashing preachers, wacko UFO-spotters, horse whisperers, rodeo stars, lumberjacks, silicon-enhanced strippers and hill-billies.
Introduce new customer destinations like farms & ranches, trailer parks, isolated gas stations, seedy motels, militia training camps, flower-power hippy retreats, strip joints and born-to-be-wild biker bars.
Short-cuts would include ploughing through swaying wheat fields, smashing through barns full of hay, and doing Dukes of Hazzard-style corkscrew jumps over rivers.
Replace the yellow cabs with Stars-&-Stripes paint-job open-top cadillacs.
Introduce dangerous elements like twisters, dust storms, runaway herds of buffalo, and psycho 18 wheeler truck drivers.
Change the in-game music from the NuMetal Punk of The Offspring & Bad Religion to twangy barn-stomping country'n'western ditties.
Keep the Crazy Taxi gameplay basically the same, and there you have it: **Crazy Taxi: Country'n'Western Edition**.
An instant smash! :)
Oh yeah, and replace Axel, Gena, Gus & co with four new crazy cabbies:
Cabbie 1: DUSTY - a shaven-headed, long-bearded (slightly off his rocker) hill-billy.
-Catch phrase: "Yeeee-hah!"
Cabbie 2: DOLLY - a gum-chewing, large-breasted peroxide blonde country girl.
-Catch phrase: "I'm all woman, baby!"
Cabbie 3: BOBBY SIXKILLER - a Native American wearing a black hat with a raven's feather in it.
-Catch phrase: "Woah! Woah! Woah!" (Red Indian war cry).
Cabbie 4: MUNGO - a cowpie-eating, tobacco-spitting meathead.
-Catch phrase: "Ping!" (that's the sound of his spit hitting the bottom of a metal bucket).
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I'm still looking forward to Crazy Taxi 3 tho', and I'm sure all other Crazy Taxi fans are too, but I think it would've been even better if SEGA had taken the game out of the city and into the country.
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Swap the busy urban streets of San Francisco & New York for the dusty roads of the Mid West American countryside.
Replace the inner-city customers with classic American country characters like cowboys & girls, Elvis impersonators, Hell's Angels, Bible-bashing preachers, wacko UFO-spotters, horse whisperers, rodeo stars, lumberjacks, silicon-enhanced strippers and hill-billies.
Introduce new customer destinations like farms & ranches, trailer parks, isolated gas stations, seedy motels, militia training camps, flower-power hippy retreats, strip joints and born-to-be-wild biker bars.
Short-cuts would include ploughing through swaying wheat fields, smashing through barns full of hay, and doing Dukes of Hazzard-style corkscrew jumps over rivers.
Replace the yellow cabs with Stars-&-Stripes paint-job open-top cadillacs.
Introduce dangerous elements like twisters, dust storms, runaway herds of buffalo, and psycho 18 wheeler truck drivers.
Change the in-game music from the NuMetal Punk of The Offspring & Bad Religion to twangy barn-stomping country'n'western ditties.
Keep the Crazy Taxi gameplay basically the same, and there you have it: **Crazy Taxi: Country'n'Western Edition**.
An instant smash! :)
Oh yeah, and replace Axel, Gena, Gus & co with four new crazy cabbies:
Cabbie 1: DUSTY - a shaven-headed, long-bearded (slightly off his rocker) hill-billy.
-Catch phrase: "Yeeee-hah!"
Cabbie 2: DOLLY - a gum-chewing, large-breasted peroxide blonde country girl.
-Catch phrase: "I'm all woman, baby!"
Cabbie 3: BOBBY SIXKILLER - a Native American wearing a black hat with a raven's feather in it.
-Catch phrase: "Woah! Woah! Woah!" (Red Indian war cry).
Cabbie 4: MUNGO - a cowpie-eating, tobacco-spitting meathead.
-Catch phrase: "Ping!" (that's the sound of his spit hitting the bottom of a metal bucket).
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I'm still looking forward to Crazy Taxi 3 tho', and I'm sure all other Crazy Taxi fans are too, but I think it would've been even better if SEGA had taken the game out of the city and into the country.
I'm sure the new Xbox exclusive Crazy Taxi: High Roller will be as enjoyable and playable as the first two in the fun-packed series, but if it was up to me, this is what I'd have done with the 3rd game.
*
Swap the busy urban streets of San Francisco & New York for the dusty roads of the Mid West American countryside.
Replace the inner-city customers with classic American country characters like cowboys & girls, Elvis impersonators, Hell's Angels, Bible-bashing preachers, wacko UFO-spotters, horse whisperers, rodeo stars, lumberjacks, silicon-enhanced strippers and hill-billies.
Introduce new customer destinations like farms & ranches, trailer parks, isolated gas stations, seedy motels, militia training camps, flower-power hippy retreats, strip joints and born-to-be-wild biker bars.
Short-cuts would include ploughing through swaying wheat fields, smashing through barns full of hay, and doing Dukes of Hazzard-style corkscrew jumps over rivers.
Replace the yellow cabs with Stars-&-Stripes paint-job open-top cadillacs.
Introduce dangerous elements like twisters, dust storms, runaway herds of buffalo, and psycho 18 wheeler truck drivers.
Change the in-game music from the NuMetal Punk of The Offspring & Bad Religion to twangy barn-stomping country'n'western ditties.
Keep the Crazy Taxi gameplay basically the same, and there you have it: **Crazy Taxi: Country'n'Western Edition**.
An instant smash! :)
Oh yeah, and replace Axel, Gena, Gus & co with four new crazy cabbies:
Cabbie 1: DUSTY - a shaven-headed, long-bearded (slightly off his rocker) hill-billy.
-Catch phrase: "Yeeee-hah!"
Cabbie 2: DOLLY - a gum-chewing, large-breasted peroxide blonde country girl.
-Catch phrase: "I'm all woman, baby!"
Cabbie 3: BOBBY SIXKILLER - a Native American wearing a black hat with a raven's feather in it.
-Catch phrase: "Woah! Woah! Woah!" (Red Indian war cry).
Cabbie 4: MUNGO - a cowpie-eating, tobacco-spitting meathead.
-Catch phrase: "Ping!" (that's the sound of his spit hitting the bottom of a metal bucket).
*
I'm still looking forward to Crazy Taxi 3 tho', and I'm sure all other Crazy Taxi fans are too, but I think it would've been even better if SEGA had taken the game out of the city and into the country.
*
Swap the busy urban streets of San Francisco & New York for the dusty roads of the Mid West American countryside.
Replace the inner-city customers with classic American country characters like cowboys & girls, Elvis impersonators, Hell's Angels, Bible-bashing preachers, wacko UFO-spotters, horse whisperers, rodeo stars, lumberjacks, silicon-enhanced strippers and hill-billies.
Introduce new customer destinations like farms & ranches, trailer parks, isolated gas stations, seedy motels, militia training camps, flower-power hippy retreats, strip joints and born-to-be-wild biker bars.
Short-cuts would include ploughing through swaying wheat fields, smashing through barns full of hay, and doing Dukes of Hazzard-style corkscrew jumps over rivers.
Replace the yellow cabs with Stars-&-Stripes paint-job open-top cadillacs.
Introduce dangerous elements like twisters, dust storms, runaway herds of buffalo, and psycho 18 wheeler truck drivers.
Change the in-game music from the NuMetal Punk of The Offspring & Bad Religion to twangy barn-stomping country'n'western ditties.
Keep the Crazy Taxi gameplay basically the same, and there you have it: **Crazy Taxi: Country'n'Western Edition**.
An instant smash! :)
Oh yeah, and replace Axel, Gena, Gus & co with four new crazy cabbies:
Cabbie 1: DUSTY - a shaven-headed, long-bearded (slightly off his rocker) hill-billy.
-Catch phrase: "Yeeee-hah!"
Cabbie 2: DOLLY - a gum-chewing, large-breasted peroxide blonde country girl.
-Catch phrase: "I'm all woman, baby!"
Cabbie 3: BOBBY SIXKILLER - a Native American wearing a black hat with a raven's feather in it.
-Catch phrase: "Woah! Woah! Woah!" (Red Indian war cry).
Cabbie 4: MUNGO - a cowpie-eating, tobacco-spitting meathead.
-Catch phrase: "Ping!" (that's the sound of his spit hitting the bottom of a metal bucket).
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I'm still looking forward to Crazy Taxi 3 tho', and I'm sure all other Crazy Taxi fans are too, but I think it would've been even better if SEGA had taken the game out of the city and into the country.
Classic stuff Cin! (you've posted this before ;))
There are, as I'm sure you know, country elements in the new Glitter Oasis city like the Grand Canyon and the dusty backroads, but nothing as good as your vision.
On the subject of CT3, about a year ago I posted a topic in the XBOX forum which predicted that Hitmaker would stage the new game in Las Vegas. This is what I wrote:
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"I would choose Las Vegas as the setting for Crazy Taxi 3. For me it's the obvious choice. Las Vegas is a world famous city on par with San Francisco and New York. It is renowned for attracting wannabe hot shots and the winning and losing of big bucks. It fits perfectly with the Crazy Taxi vibe, and thus makes it an ideal place to make some crazy money.
Just imagine driving the cab through the city streets after dark surrounded by the dazzling multi-coloured neon signs of the casinos and other impressive buildings."
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I am a prophet! :D
There are, as I'm sure you know, country elements in the new Glitter Oasis city like the Grand Canyon and the dusty backroads, but nothing as good as your vision.
On the subject of CT3, about a year ago I posted a topic in the XBOX forum which predicted that Hitmaker would stage the new game in Las Vegas. This is what I wrote:
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"I would choose Las Vegas as the setting for Crazy Taxi 3. For me it's the obvious choice. Las Vegas is a world famous city on par with San Francisco and New York. It is renowned for attracting wannabe hot shots and the winning and losing of big bucks. It fits perfectly with the Crazy Taxi vibe, and thus makes it an ideal place to make some crazy money.
Just imagine driving the cab through the city streets after dark surrounded by the dazzling multi-coloured neon signs of the casinos and other impressive buildings."
----
I am a prophet! :D
LOL, very funny idea there!
Cinnamon wrote:
> silicon-enhanced strippers
Rofl! Some neat ideas there, but still i think i'd love the city approach also the demo of CT3 is on next monts OXM mag.
> silicon-enhanced strippers
Rofl! Some neat ideas there, but still i think i'd love the city approach also the demo of CT3 is on next monts OXM mag.
Doing corkscrew Dukes of Hazzard jumps in a Stars & Stripes paint-job cadillac. That gets my vote! Brilliant.
Maybe we'll see this "country & western" thing going on in Crazy Taxi 4? Hope so.
Maybe we'll see this "country & western" thing going on in Crazy Taxi 4? Hope so.
Can you run over rednecks?
Looking forward to next months demo!
gamezfreak wrote:
> Looking forward to next months demo!
Yep! I'll be buying it anyway regardless of the demo, unless it's total cr@p, which it won't be.
I might avoid the demo just so I can get that first play on day of purchase excitement. If you know what I mean??
> Looking forward to next months demo!
Yep! I'll be buying it anyway regardless of the demo, unless it's total cr@p, which it won't be.
I might avoid the demo just so I can get that first play on day of purchase excitement. If you know what I mean??