{"id":16592,"date":"2017-07-03T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T00:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16592"},"modified":"2017-06-06T23:53:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T23:53:19","slug":"crazy-taxi-gazillionaire-ios-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/03\/crazy-taxi-gazillionaire-ios-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Taxi: Gazillionaire (iOS, Android)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Crazy Taxi is one of the best arcade games ever made, and it\u2019s one of SEGA\u2019s top games overall, too.\u00a0 At least I think so.\u00a0 You drive a taxi and must take customers to their destination as fast as you can, and do crazy stunts along the way for more money!\u00a0 The money grabbing aspect must\u2019ve been the main focus for the newest in the Crazy Taxi series, as Crazy Taxi: Gazillionaire is one of those mobile endless clickers.\u00a0 It\u2019s available for iOS and Android devices, but reviewed on iPad here.<\/p>\n

Here you don\u2019t drive the taxis, but you are their boss.\u00a0 You click on passengers in an overhead city setting and tell the drivers to pick them up.\u00a0 Sometimes you can tap on icons to make the taxis do stunts or multiply your points for a short amount of time.\u00a0 You can tap on blimps and helicopters for money bonuses as well.\u00a0 When you earn enough money, you can buy more taxis and hire more drivers and upgrade them both.\u00a0 The taxis and drivers will be familiar to fans as they are all characters from the original games.\u00a0 Eventually you can unlock new areas of the city to go to.\u00a0 And you just repeat the process indefinitely.<\/p>\n

Sadly, the game didn\u2019t hold my interest for very long.\u00a0 Even less than another endless clicker I reviewed: Tap My Katamari<\/strong><\/a>, and that one wasn\u2019t very good either.\u00a0 Really the best thing about this game was they managed to get the original songs from Offspring to play in the background.\u00a0 It just isn\u2019t Crazy Taxi without \u2018em!\u00a0 But it just made me want to play the original game instead.\u00a0 You can also earn money when you don\u2019t play, which I found more rewarding.\u00a0 You know a game is in trouble when it makes you want to play another game and is more interesting when you\u2019re not playing it.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

While you do see cars crashing into each other, it all looks like Hot Wheels so I think violence is pretty minimal.\u00a0 Some parents may not like the rebellious nature of the soundtrack, or at least that was a concern of mine when my little brothers wanted to play the original game a long time ago.\u00a0 But I let them play it anyway and they all turned out OK.\u00a0 Parental supervision is still definitely recommended for the in-game purchases and ads, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crazy Taxi is one of the best arcade games ever made, and it\u2019s one of SEGA\u2019s top games overall, too.\u00a0 At least I think so.\u00a0 You drive a taxi and must take customers to their destination as fast as you can, and do crazy stunts along the way for more money!\u00a0 The money grabbing aspect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16594,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592\/revisions\/16594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}