31st May 2004, 11:19 AM
Now I've only played a demo of Crazi Taxi, but it certainly does seem very fun indeed. It's just classic arcade racing around town and picking people up just to take them somewhere else. That's all good. It's GTA I just don't enjoy, and honestly, it's due to the lack of real interaction. Sure, I can get missions to kill people and it's a big town, but when all the people are just walking atomatons that you only have the ability to kill or ignore, it gets dull. Random "killing sprees" just don't interest me... Now, if they made the game with REAL freedom, where you could, in an aimazing act of innovation, actually TALK to people using some sort of complex society interaction engine, then I'm interested. THEN I can really feel like I'm in a living city. THEN I might actually be able to play with FULL freedom. Being able to ONLY be a car stealing murderer in a game that is intended to give you full freedom just isn't enjoyable. I'd ALSO like to be the guy who can choose to either be a terror, running some crime syndicate using WORDS to threaten and get people to actually DO things for me as opposed to just shooting a bunch of sheeple in the head, OR be the guy who's trying to be Batman, scouring the city streets to stop thugs and crime lords, ALSO being able to actually talk to people, people that might know information I need to extract from them. THAT is the game I will play!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)