Crazy Taxi hints
On this section I've basically put a few hints that will help you get good earnings in Crazy Taxi, How to do all the moves, info about the drivers
Always try to pick up Green customers. If this requires going a bit further than you usually would then this is OK as long as you can still get Speedy's. Another thing to try is to take a Yellow or Orange if you know that the destination is right by a green. The only problem is that for the less experienced cabbie, you might get a lot of BAD's or Slow's when you do greens, especially when you need to go along the highway, until you can get Speedy's. on greens, stick to the yellows or yellow-greens.
Use Crazy Drifts at every sharp turning. This will not only earn you loads more money but will also take less time than turning normally.
Always Crazy Stop as close to the customer as possible and in the direction they will want to go.
One good short-cut is from the park to the Levi's Store. Instead of turning right and following the road, go straight ahead into the car-park and out the top. It is important to Crazy Drift right as you go up the ramp and then left as you go off the top. You'll get a load of money for it as a jump. Another way to get a load of money is to drive close to all the cars in the car-park and get a ton of Crazy Throughs.
On the way down from the Heliport to the church, Do a limit cut and cut right through the middle down onto the road after the Church.
The best way to go along the highway is to go on the left shoulder of the road and Limit Cut all the way. This way you'll pick up millions of Crazy Throughs. and won't hit anything although you'll spend half your time grinding against the wall.
Try to spend most of your time in the middle of the road. Since cars from either side of the road go right through the middle you can pick up massive tips by serving around cars and staying in the middle.
When going down the hill where the cable-cars are on, then you must stay in the complete middle as there is a gap in-between the roads. You can pick up Throughs. from the cable cars and every car on the road.
At the start of the game, reverse until you stop in a yellow-green circle. You can take this guy all the way to the cable car bottom.
Once you start making serious money, it is best if you aim to make laps round the city. This way you'll have no problem looking for customers or turning around. Learn which passengers go where and choose which ones you need to take.
Colour order of passengers' circles.
| Short | Medium Short | Medium | Medium Long | Long |
Crazy Moves
| Name of Move | What it does | How to do it |
| Crazy Dash | Gives the cab a boost of speed for about 5 seconds | Let go of both the accelerator and the brakes and then simultaneously hold 'B' and the right trigger (accelerator). |
| Crazy Drift | Lets the cab sharply turn and drift. | While going forwards, quickly shift into reverse and back and then make a hard turn. |
| Crazy Back Dash | Gives the cab a boost of speed in reverse. | Go into reverse straight after starting a Crazy Dash. |
| Crazy Back Drift | Lets the cab carry on reversing after spinning 180degrees. | Going forward, shift into forward and then reverse and then do a hard turn. |
| Crazy Stop | Gives the cab a sharper and quicker stop | Going forward, shift into reverse and hold brake and accelerator, then just brakes once it's slowed down. |
| Crazy Drift Stop | Lets the cab do a tight turn with out drifting. | Going forward, shift into reverse and then forward, then quickly hard turn and break. |
| Limiter Cut | Unlimited speed boost until you hit something. | Going forward, let go of accelerator and break. Then shift into reverse, then shift into forward while holding accelerator at exactly the same time. |
The cabbies
| Gus Mancini | Axle McDermott | Gena Turner | B.D.Joe |
| 42 years old | 21 years old | 23 years old | 25 years old |
| License Plate: ONLY777 | License Plate: 1NOM1555 | License Plate: 5EXY5I5 | License Plate: 2HOP260 |
| Gus started Crazy driving back when he was an uncontrollable daredevil youth and is still doing it now. He is very laid back and rides in his 1955 jalopy. In his spare time he likes to play poker or blackjack. | Axle's a wild and free- wheeling guy. His reason for being a cab driver is 'cause it's the "coolest" job when he zooms around in his 60's era classic cab. In his spare time he does surfing or snow boarding and picking up women. | Gena is one of those girls who has a need for speed and loves her cab to bits. This sexy girl spends nearly all of her time tuning up her cab when she's not on the job and has little, if any time for men. | B.D.Joe is a cabbie who's main reason for doing his job is solely to make people happy. He's a perky guy who loves to give his customers a fun time. Out of work he is in the street performing on the trashcans as he's one helluva good drummer. |
| Gus' cab has a very good top speed but the acceleration's pretty poor. He also has good tyres and has no problem riding around off road or on paths. The only problem is that his breaks are the pits. | Axle's cab is designed to be fairly good all round. This cab is ideal for beginners as it has no real problems. | Although Gena's cab is the slowest out of the four, it is great acceleration and brill breaking. | B.D.Joe has a super-speedy cab, the fastest of the lot. The only thing is his tyres are too slippery, especially on paths meaning there's way too much wheel spin for comfort. |
Crazy Boxes
Crazy Jump
This is a really easy crazy box, all you need to know is the Crazy Dash. You are situated on a BIG ramp where you must do some Crazy Dashes to get more than 150m off the ramp. The trick is basically to do a couple of Crazy Dashes on the way down and then a Crazy Dash just as your at the slope going up. Some people are able to get over 400m!!!! The best way though is to pick B.D.Joe (as he's the fastest) and do a limit cut at the start.
Crazy Flag
Here's you're on a beach and you basically have to knock down some flags. You need to do some 180 drifts though their not at all necessary. Gus is the best here as he's really good for drifts and for on the sand.
Crazy Balloons
You basically have to drive into about 20 balloons on a field. This is also quite easy but all you really need to do is a Crazy Drift at every bunch of balloons.
Crazy Drift
This is too easy to really be a challenge but it teaches you how to use Crazy Drift. You must do 15combos of Crazy Drift in 30 seconds. EASY!!! My personal top is 39, I guess I could do more I just haven't put that much that much effort into it. IF you can beat 39, email me.
Crazy Turn
Ah, this ones a bit more of a challenge. You basically have to go around a series of 180 bends using Drifts and Dashes to drop off your customer in the set amount of time. Hint - If you don't pull off the dash at the last jump, just reverse into the green. After a bit of practice, you can pull this off, the only problem is in getting to the green at the end.
Crazy Bound
This one is a lot of peoples favourite challenge. You basically have to do Crazy Drift jumps off ramps onto other islands and get to the green island in the time period. This is quite tricky at first since if you pull off the Crazy Drift wrong, your sleeping with the fishes. The first time I got to the end, after about 30 attempts, I forgot to brake and rode right off the island so - make sure you break at the end since it's a small island. The only real hint here is to get steep drifts and persistence.
Crazy Rush
This one is the hardest of the 9 original challenges. You have to go to the centre of the web of destinations and pick up one of 5 customers, then take them to their destination then do the other 4 in the time period. This is tricky but you must learn which customer goes where and how to do a Crazy Drift stop so you stop facing the way you came. Remember, practice makes perfect.
Crazy Jam
This one is another fairly hard one, you have to pick up 3 customers and take them to where they need to go in a very restraining time limit. Lots of Dashes and Drifts are needed here.
Crazy Pole
In this one you must drop off all the people in the small place where you pick the next customer up from. Not to hard if you've done all the others just another case of doing lots of Drifts and dashes and making sure you get your Crazy Stop good. I suggest using Gena for this one as her breaking and accelerating is by far the best.
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Crazy Bowling
In this one you've got to get your crazy drifts just right so you can knock over 7 sets of 10 bowling pins down a long zig-zaggy lane in a very constraining time period. There isn't much of a trick except that you need to get your drifts earlier than your going to hit the pins and do loads of crazy dashes or a limit cut at the end. It's not that hard to knock the pins down but to get all 7 done perfectly in a row, in the time limit is VERY hard.
Crazy Zig-zag
In this one you need to perfectly perform a load of Crazy Drifts and Dashes to get you through the thin zig zaggy pier and to the green area in the time. The trick is that after you've perfected doing the first 3 90 turns You do a stop drift turn for the last 3, just make sure you do the first 3 fast so you get some extra time. The fourth turn is REALLY FRUSTRATING since after all your hard work on the 90 degree turns you just fall off at the fourth, so SLOW DOWN!!!
Crazy Zig-zag 2
This one is basically the same as Zig-zag except that you have to stop at each corner to drop your passenger off with out falling in. HARD!!! You basically have to do a Crazy Drift stop miraculously at each corner, takes practice, a lot of practice.
Crazy Through
In this one you have to go along a busy road and get 30 consecutive Crazy Throughs. Not that many tips I can give you but if you've got a good score and you don't want to lose it by hitting something you can just go along the side of the road so the traffic doesn't hit you but you still get some of the Throughs.
Crazy Parking
This is another TUFFY. You have to get through all the garages so the best thing to do is go straight ahead and do a Crazy Drift at the end of a garage.
Crazy Party
In this one you have to pick up 6 baseball fans and take them to their party. Finding them is the hard bit. This is really hard and confusing but once you know the order in which to do everything it isn't really that hard. so follow these instructions:
Go left straight away and pick up the guy near the phone booth.
After you've picked up him, pick the guy up right opposite from where you are.
Go to the winding hill with the bowling pins and pick up the guy on top.
Then drive right off the edge onto where all the cars are and pick up the guy in between the cars.
Then head over to the other concrete winding hill and pick up the guy on top. Then head over full speed to the ramp.
Make sure your at FULL speed by doing plenty of Crazy Dashes and get into the ledge of the building and pick up the guy on your left first.
Then pick up the guy opposite him. Do a Crazy Drift so your facing the grassy patch where you picked him up. Then do a Crazy Dash along the narrow path towards your goal.
Crazy Attack
In this the aim is to go all the way around the track in 4 minutes flat. Just use all the short-cuts you know and it won't be quite as hard, that is as long as you don't hit anything. You're not getting paid any tips so don't do anything unneccesary that might slow you down. Good Luck
Once you do this challenge, you will be awarded with a shiny new bicycle. (seriously)