Crazy Taxi is and has been one of the most highly anticipated games for the worlds' first 128-bit console. Once again Sega has successfully ported an arcade game while not sacrificing graphical appeal. Looking at the Dreamcast version it is difficult if not impossible to see a clear difference between it and the arcade version. The detail in the virtual city is phenomenal. In most driving games it is the look of the backgrounds and in-game environments that matter most and this just so happens to be one of the strongest points in Crazy Taxi.
Every building is intricately detailed, as are the streets, hills, grass, skyline, and pedestrians.
Buildings represent themselves well compared to their real life counterparts. Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut and other licensed companies display their storefronts with perfect clarity and design. The streets themselves are textured so that their look resembles most roads one would see in a Northern California city, complete with cobblestone sidewalks and an occasional trolley car track. Most if not all of the surfaces that you will be driving on are equally impressive. In one of the mini games you drive along what seems to be a peer with a surface resembling a bowling alley.