Taxi 3: eXtreme Rush Demo

Although taxis may not strike you as furious race cars waiting for the opportunity to burn some rubber. Taxi 3: eXtreme Rush makes this assumption for you and provides you with the chance to take part in some of these races. Moreover, you also have to avoid being caught by the cops, or worse, shot by them if you refuse to stop.

The available options when it comes to the cars you can drive is pretty far from anything you would imagine a taxi look like, especially since you can compete in high-end Japanese models and Italian futuristic vehicles. The vehicles are also equipped with nitro tanks as well, which offer you quick speed bursts whenever you feel like you cannot get back into the race fast enough.

As far as the events you can compete in, there are multiple game modes to choose from, each one of which requires a slightly different driving style. Hence, from regular lap races, to drag events and daring city runs, you are provided with enough choices to satisfy your thirst for speed and trouble, especially since the latter option puts the police on your tail.

If you think that a few police cars should not be a major concerned, you will quickly change your mind once they start unleashing the powerful artillery they have on board. Thus, in order to escape both with your car and your life, you must give it your best effort in order to trick them and escape, or risk losing more than the race and the respect of the fellow speed maniacs.

Technical-wise, the game may not turn any heads, but the graphics are definitely not an eye sore. The physics engine, on the other hand, could have used a bit more work, since, despite the arcade nature of the game, it still acts quite inappropriately toward the laws of classical mechanics when it comes to inertia and gravity.

Taxi 3: Extreme Rush can be a fun game to play with your friends, especially since it supports an entertaining cooperative gameplay mode. The races can turn out to be quite fun, thanks to the unpredictable nature of the cop chases and the tricky traffic that populates the streets of the city.