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[Poetic.Injustice]

Crazy Taxi: City Rush is the new free-to-play sequel from series creator Kenji Kanno and Hardlight Studios. it’s coming to iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android devices later this year.

In a press release sent to VG247 today, Kanno said, “I’m very excited to finally be able to share with you the first news of Crazy Taxi: City Rush. We are delivering a truly fun game that captures everything our fans love about the original and infusing it with several new features to create an even more fantastic and memorable experience.”

To celebrate the announcement, the original Crazy Taxi is free on Android and iOS for a limited time.

http://www.vg247.com/2014/03/14/cra...m-series-creator-coming-to-mobiles-this-year/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em7kky1xaFc

Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7amlnY0gSM#t=35

 

[sixteen-bit]

I'd be more excited if it were an arcade game by old Hitmaker staff, but Kanno's involvement is encouraging.

 

[Nicktendo86]

Knew it would be mobile.

 

[LeonSPBR]

A mobile game...

 

[oti]

Here's gameplay. (It's a German video, but who cares. It's Crazy Taxi.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7amlnY0gSM

 

[Samurai_Heart]

I'd be more excited if it were an arcade game

.

Here's gameplay. (It's a German video, but who cares. It's Crazy Taxi.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7amlnY0gSM[/url[/QUOTE] I hear on rails....

 

[Dreamgazer]

"Must be mobile game"

Yep.

 

[shandy706]

Crazy Taxi: City Rush is the new free-to-play sequel from series creator Kenji Kanno and Hardlight Studios. it’s coming to iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android devices later this year.

Barf

Oh well...was excited at thread title....nevermind :'(

Kanno said, "We are delivering a truly fun game that captures everything our fans love about the original and infusing it with several new features to create an even more fantastic and memorable experience.”

No....no you are not. The platforms it is releasing on completely negates that comment.

 

[WarMacheen]

Free to play....mobile....ZZZzzzZzzz

 

[Mondy]

Another formally great franchise gets its head smashed into the dirt.

 

[8bit]

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah, No.

 

[Jarnet87]

Does it have the offspring

 

[Haunted]

Kind of sad that I already knew it was mobile with the thread title omitting platforms.

nice try OP

 

[def sim]

You can't fool me anymore.

 

[Gigarator]

Can't wait for this mobile bubble to burst. Far too many tarnished game series at this point.

 

[Breakfast at Noon]

stop it stop it STOP IT STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP IT!

 

[Atlas157]

Crazy Taxi: City Rush is the new free-to-play sequel from series creator Kenji Kanno and Hardlight Studios. it’s coming to iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android devices later this year.

 

[Flavius]

Loved Crazy Taxi back in the day, but this looks like more of the same only...worse?

I don't get it.

 

[Doomshroom]

mobile......dont care

 

[acm2000]

so it looks like its a drift rails endless runner style game, pass

 

[Whompa]

Guys, what if it's...fun?

Would need a decent ost though.

 

[gabbre]

Looks uglier than the 1999 one

 

[Infernal Monkey]

Wait, is it on rails? What the hell.

 

[TONX]

mobile. dont care ever.

 

[abstract alien]

If the system name isn't in the thread title...

 

[Brianimaniac]

Can't wait for this mobile bubble to burst. Far too many tarnished game series at this point.

Seriously? The original was an arcade game. Arcade games were designed to eat money. They were the mobile of their time.

 

[outunderthestars]

"Hey let's take this game that requires delicate control and put it on platforms with the least delicate control options!"

 

[wrowa]

So that's why the original is currently free on iOS/Android.

 

[Tom_Cody]

I'd be more excited if it were an arcade game by old Hitmaker staff, but Kanno's involvement is encouraging.

Whatever happened to all of the Sega people from the Dreamcast era? They were turning out classic after classic. It's a shame those people didn't get more credit (outside of a select few) and have now drifted out into obscurity.

 

[nofi]

"Hey let's take this game that requires delicate control and put it on platforms with the least delicate control options!"

Different game.

 

[Deleted member 57681]

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah, No.

Awesome.

 

[Black Door]

Mobile?

We get no respect, we get no relief.

 

[antitrop]

Yayayay- noooooo

Edit: well, beaten

 

[Sinatar]

GAF is getting too predictable with this shit.

If you make a thread about a beloved franchise coming back and exclude a platform in your thread title, everyone *knows* it's mobile. The joke is fucking dead.

So stop.

 

[Slowdive]

Ah, so that's why the original is free right now.

 

[shuri]

Crazy Taxi on a modern ipad is AMAZING. I can't look at the sites or vids, but I can't believe they are somehow going for a on-rail design?! WHY?!

 

[muteki]

Yes!.........No!

 

[Briarios]

Just as a side note, Crazy Taxi is free right now in the App Store.

 

[commanderpepper]

I was excited until I saw it was a mobile game.

 

[Cimarron]

A new crazy taxi game is released!!!

=D

It's on all mobile platforms!!!!!

;_;

 

[Galdelico]

Reminds me of that old Simpsons' rip off (Road Rage?).
Mmmeh, even if my expectations weren't exactly high.

 

[BearPawB]

I love crazy taxi. I hope the boost mechanics are still in.


Oh ...it's temple run

 

[ROBOKITTYZILLA]

Knew it would be mobile.

Exactly, but I just had to check to be sure...

 

[SmithnCo]

Oh.

Oh.

 

[PaperCube]

Another formally great franchise gets its head smashed into the dirt.

It's really sad to see this kind of thing happening repeatedly.

 

[epmode]

I cracked the code a while ago:

If the thread title is for a Japanese game that i want to play and it doesn't mention a platform, there's a 98% chance it's mobile trash

 

[BruiserBear]

Fucking mobile

 

[Gigarator]

Seriously? The original was an arcade game. Arcade games were designed to eat money. They were the mobile of their time.

They were also designed to be fun. A concept missing from these free to play games flooding the market.

 

[ChronoX]

I got hyped for nothing

 

[Brianimaniac]

They were also designed to be fun. A concept missing from these free to play games flooding the market.

A lot of them really weren't. They were really cheap and unfair to squeeze money out of you.