This over-the-top arcade racer where you SMASH a Taxi Cab across New York City is a loud, fast and destructive experience from start to finish. You race the CPU or a friend through timed checkpoints while you perform insane jumps, take dangerous short cuts and pick up power-ups and boosters along the way. I played the GameCube version and it flows and feels great, I don't think it was very advanced to begin with, so the console ports seem fine. The graphics are simple and Crazy Taxi-esque, but does the job, and the audio is insane and wakes you up. The music sounds like the devs made a few boyband songs for fun and put them in. I bet gamers who owned Smashing Drive have fond, fun memories of it being a well worth pick-up-and-play budget title, as well as pleasing cotton candy charged kids in the arcades.

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