When comparing Crazy Taxi vs Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, the Slant community recommends Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath for most people. In the question“What are the best Android games without in-app purchases/paywalls?” Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath is ranked 7th while Crazy Taxi is ranked 110th. The most important reason people chose Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath is:
There are actual graphical settings options in the setting of the game allowing the player to choose what settings work best for their device. This allows the game to look great on high end hardware, yet still perform well on low end hardware.
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Pros
Pro Android port retains the original music, which may brings back nostalgia for those familiar with the original title
For a port to hold onto it's music licenses is pretty much unseen now a days but luckily Crazy Taxi still has all of the original tracks found in the Dreamcast version (featuring music from Bad Religion and Offspring).
Pro Simple and intuitive touchscreen controls allows the game to be easy to pick up and play
For a ported game, the controls are very simple. There are 4 buttons - one for drive, one for reverse, and one each for left/right steering. Double tapping on the drive button launches you off with very high acceleration, and double tapping the left/right buttons starts a drift. These controls are simple, and very easy to get used to.
Pro Mini-games extend the content to the game and give the player something to do when they are tired of the main quests
Mini games, such as taxi bowling adds more to the game, and helps justify the $5 price for an old Dreamcast port. In total, there are 16 of these mini games. Having a good number of mini games to pick from, allows the player something extra to do, if they ever get tired or bored of the mainline missions.
Pro Fun map to drive on thanks to the sheer size on offer and the amount of locations available
There is an assortment of locations to drive in, thanks to the large size of the open-world map and the large assortment of locations you can drive through.
Pro Pretty easy to find a controller to control the game with as the title has very solid controller support
Crazy Taxi supports all HID controllers, such as the PS3 and Xbox 360 controllers, as well as SHIELD and [MOGA controllers](MOGA controller support). This way there should be little issue with finding a controller to work with this title.
Pro Graphic settings help provide good performance on all hardware
There are actual graphical settings options in the setting of the game allowing the player to choose what settings work best for their device. This allows the game to look great on high end hardware, yet still perform well on low end hardware.
Pro Excellent choice of shooting RPG with new type of shooting animal
Movie like western style rogue game with bounty hunter action. Awesome game. Story with a twist in the middle and end of game. Play to find out..
Pro Intuitive adapted controls
From what was originally an XBox game meant to be played with a controller, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath has been adapted quite well to touch screen. Intuitive features such as shaking the device to heal puts this game apart from other ports as time was actually taken to figure in features that work on the mobile platform.
Cons
Con Graphics look dated
Considering that the game is fifteen years old (as of 2014), the graphics do look a bit dated when compared to other high end games on Android. These graphics are untouched direct ports from the Dreamcast.
Con Very touchy controls
Tapping on the steering buttons is a janky affair. One quick tap turns your taxi a lot, and it can be very hard to control your driving using the touchscreen controls. Thankfully, there are other options - in the settings you can change the controls to tilt which is a bit better although sometimes not sensitive enough - or if you have a MOGA controller you should probably use that as it's closest to the original joystick controls.
Con Linear story-line doesn't allow free movement
Once you complete all the missions in one town, there is no way to go back. This sort of defeats the purpose of a free-world game.
Con FPS sections are difficult to control
The first person shooter sections of the game can be a bit difficult as the player needs to remove their thumb from one of the touch screen movement sticks to shoot, making parts of movement impossible to control while shooting.