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Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller

After New York, what city could be screwy enough for a CRAZY TAXI game? You guessed it, an amped-up version of Las Vegas serves as the backdrop for this chapter in this ultra-tense driving game. As with…

50 23 July 2002

Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller is a racing developed by Hitmaker, released 23 July 2002 on Xbox, Arcade and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller is

Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller is a racing game developed by Hitmaker and released in 2002. It was published by Empire Software. It is available on Xbox, Arcade and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

After New York, what city could be screwy enough for a CRAZY TAXI game? You guessed it, an amped-up version of Las Vegas serves as the backdrop for this chapter in this ultra-tense driving game. As with previous series installments, the object of the game is to collect as much fare money as possible by picking up and delivering passengers at record speeds. You'll have to create a few shortcuts of your won in order to win, and that will mean causing a few crashes and knocking down a few buildings.
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How it plays

Its themes are action, comedy, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Crazy Taxi series

Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller is the third of 18 entries we hold in the Crazy Taxi series. It arrived a year after Crazy Taxi 2. The next entry was Crazy Taxi: Catch a Ride in 2003. Its critic score of 50 is 15 points below the series average of 65. The highest-rated entry is Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed at 88.

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How it was received

Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 12% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 18 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller launched on 23 July 2002, within three weeks of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, Super Mario Sunshine and SoulCalibur II. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, Super Mario Sunshine, SoulCalibur II.

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When did Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller come out?
Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller was released on 23 July 2002 for Xbox, Arcade and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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