The original Taxi Chaos hit in 2021 and was something of a hidden gem in its own way. The core game was reminiscent of the Crazy Taxi game, only set in actual New York City in the modern day and it was perfectly fine for what it was. For those who loved the CT games and wanted a modern variant on it, Taxi Chaos largely accomplished that with new things like sub-missions you could partake in during a taxi run.
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Those enabled the player to engage in conversations that went beyond CT's basic soundbytes and added layers to the world -- as did each of the playable characters standing out a bit. Vinny was more of a young hotshot while Cleo was young and a aloof, but they each drove the same unless the CT cast since the change in car types changed the stats up in that game and not the drivers themselves.
The sequel does a remarkable job at keeping the goal of still being to take folks from A to B, but doing so with far more gusto than one would expect. When I first saw the trailer for the sequel before...
