When comparing Gangstar Vegas vs Crazy Taxi, the Slant community recommends Crazy Taxi for most people. In the question“What are the best open world Android games?” Crazy Taxi is ranked 19th while Gangstar Vegas is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose Crazy Taxi is:
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).
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Pros
Pro Huge map with tons to do thanks to all the amount of events available in the title
There is a huge map with lots of fun things to do and plenty of side missions. Getting further in the main mission will unlock other events, including street racing, motocross tracks, and more. As your character is a MMA fighter, ring challenges and fighting tournaments are also present. If you need to top up your bank account, you can heist cars, hit up the casino, or compete in some of the other available challenges.
As far as the map itself goes, it is 9x bigger than the previous Gangstar game.
Pro Easily customize your character to look how you like
You can model your character just the way you want to with very few limitations. Weapons are broken down into different categories - hand-to-hand, pistols, shotguns, and rifles - each with their own skill points which can decrease reload times or increase the clip size.
Vehicles work in the same way - for each type (cars, boats, motorcycles, planes) you can upgrade their speed, acceleration, and handling.
Pro Graphics are handled very nicely and show a lot of polish, making for a pleasing looking game
Gangstar Vegas is an attractive looking game. From the colourful scenes to unique character models as well as light reflections and water ripples, it's clear this game had a talented design team behind it.
Pro Good story that should impress any mobile gamer
While the story mode is not amazing, it is still great for a mobile game and it gets the job done.
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.
Cons
Con In-app-purchases are required past a certain point
It takes a lot of quick-play missions to level up, especially when you are at a higher level. The grind in this game is very long, most players will end up either quitting or putting up real money to help them along.
Con Annoying ads
There are annoying ads that pop up when you go to the home screen of the game (the screen that shows shop, profile, etc).
Con Large game file
This game is going to end up taking a good 2.5 gigabytes of space. Most phones only have 16GB of storage - of which only around 10-12GB is usable. This one game can take up to 20% of your total storage, or even more if your phone only has 8GB of storage.
Con The map is too small
Con Keeps asking to rate the game
The game also keeps asking you to rate it everytime.
Con It gets boring after a while
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.