Thunderbolt writes: "Crazy Taxi owned me. Hard. The gimmick of advertisement as recognizable architecture and homely West Coast mall punk did little to deter me from logging serious hours into what, at the time, was the perfect blend of destructive freedom and addictive high-score number crunching that only Katamari Damacy and its sequel have since matched. However, a quick log-in to GameTap reveals that the game, released on the Dreamcast in 2000, has aged very poorly, feeling clunky, unpolished and incredibly limiting in the shadow of new-generation open world experiences. Emergency Mayhem, an unabashed Taxi clone released in 2008 for the Wii, manages to feel even clunkier and more unpolished and limiting than the fossil it draws inspiration from."
