I bought this for the Gameboy Advance because a couple of years ago I watched my boyfriend play Grand Theft Auto, and the fact that he could hijack a taxi in that, and pick up passengers sounded quite entertaining to me. I got a GBA for my birthday, and ended up buying this.
Big mistake. I shouldn't be allowed in shops alone to buy GBA games, cos I choose rubbish! OK, the game was OK to start with. I figured out how to work it, despite having no instructions, and having my licence taken off me on my first go. I carried on, and 'completed' it within a couple of hours. Actually, I don't think there's any way you can complete it, but once you're the number 1 taxi driver out there, there's nowhere else for you to go.
The graphics are also terrible on the GBA, and I don't know why. I 'crashed' into walls & other drivers so many times simply because I couldn't work out where I was going. I had about a couple of inches away from my face most of the time, just so I could work out where I was going.
The training sessions, aren't worth the hassle of playing. They're pointless, and the only one I half managed to do was crash into balloons, and I still only managed 12 out of 20. It's impossible to achieve what is expected of you during the training.
I quickly became tired of this game, although I've kept going back to it, simply because the other game I've got for the GBA is getting on my nerves now. Which funnily enough also has a training session, but if you don't pass the training, then you don't get to play the rest of the game.
The game's also very repetitive. You pick up the same passengers at the same places, and take them to the same destinations. If you change how much traffic there is on the roads in the options, then you do take them to different places, but I found I couldn't pick up as many passengers within the time limit. I managed to pick up nearly 20, but then it started repeating the destinations.
Overall I would not recommend this game to anyone, unless it's very very cheap, which mine was. I like the style of the game, and would keep an eye out for similar styles of games, but not this.