Taxi Chaos 2 PS5 Review – The State of the Console Version Vs The PC Version

Diving into Taxi Chaos 2 feels like stepping into a neon-lit pressure cooker where every street corner hides a new surprise, and every fare becomes an in-depth exploration of San Valeda’s unpredictable pulse. This sequel wastes no time throwing you into its vertical playground of shifting routes, rogue TaxiBots, and high-stakes decision-making. From rooftop leaps to last‑second shortcuts, the city constantly reshapes itself around your wheels, creating a rhythm of chaos that’s as exhilarating as it is relentless. It’s a world built for speed, improvisation, and pure arcade adrenaline.

The taxi leaps high into the air in Taxi Chaos 2, dodging an aggressive police bot during a sunset chase.

Taxi Chaos 2 Review Pros

  • Decent graphics. 
  • 4.45GB download size.
  • Platinum trophy.
  • Audio sliders for voice, SFX, music, and master volume. 
  • Taxi driving gameplay. 
  • Opening tutorial section, then ongoing in-game pop-ups. 
  • Two game modes – arcade and story mode. 
  • Full online leaderboards support with friends and global filters, and it looks like they are cross-platform.
  • Arcade mode is where you pick up whoever you want and earn cash. As you level up, you can choose one of two upgrades each time. Everything is timed and gives cash rewards. 
  • A pure love letter to Crazy Taxi. 
  • The goal of the game is to drive up to customers and take them to their destination as fast as possible, and earn bonus cash. 
  • Unlock new cars for arcade mode via the money you earn. 
  • The customer satisfaction bar goes down if you drive recklessly or take too long. 
  • Taxi bots are the enemy and will do anything to ram you off the road and slow you down. They cause customers to become unhappy, but luckily, you can smash them up and destroy them for chip pieces 
  • As standard, you can drift and juno around a city that is forever changing it all up. 
  • A full 3D game world, and you are in the third-person view at all times. 
  • The colour around a customer denotes how difficult the fare is. 
  • Unlock new abilities, and they all have cool-downs. 
  • Taxi customisation allows you to change the colours and livery for free whenever you want, and then you can buy new wheels and steering wheels with cash. 
  • Destinations will always show arrows on the floor to help you. 
  • Easy to learn controls and feel familiar to any racing fan. 
  • In-game cutscenes and character interactions, which can be skipped, and some in-game conversations happen as you are playing. 
  • Story mode is you do shifts and earn as many chips and cash as you can to buy new character hats, vehicles, including customisation aswel as things for the story. 
  • The game world is almost a character as it can change up and throw in random events like closing roads or moving ramps, etc. 
  • Ability tree unlocks with the tech lab, and you can then buy new abilities and upgrades for your vehicles. 
  • Levelling up will unlock new options available to you. 
  • Cash is for vehicles, customisation items, etc., whilst the chips are used for buying abilities and vehicle upgrades. 
  • Six vehicles to buy and unlock, and each has unique stats for acceleration, top speed, turning, braking, drift, and weight. 
  • There is a lot of depth to the game, and it allows you to play and customise how you want. 
  • During a shift in the story, you can go and explore. I like that you could do something in the world, like score a goal on the soccer pitch to unlock a new hat. 
  • Loadout is where you choose either a utility or a combat ability to have on your vehicle. 
  • In story mode, you get new goals at each part of the day, get them done quickly to earn data pointss which is what is exp and levels you up. 
  • Chaos resolvers can pop up during play and are red marker customers. You get huge rewards for these, and they are rare. 
The player skids into a customer pickup point in Taxi Chaos 2, highlighting the difficulty and cash reward UI.

Taxi Chaos 2 Review Cons

  • You cannot view the controls in-game, remap them or anything. 
  • Basic graphics options. 
  • The game options are just credits, so there are no accessibility options or anything. 
  • The screen is way too busy with an image of your location, two sets of distance counters, and then you get the actual gameplay, like arrows and pop-ups. 
  • Each passenger sounds the same and has like three voice lines they use over and over. 
  • So many random glitches and craziness happening like AI cars just start flying, bridges disaaper and reappear. 
  • Handling is tight, but with bad AI cars and small roads, it makes for a frustrating time. 
  • In story mode, you don’t really know how a shift ends, the story is very basic and familiar and it takes ages to get going. 
  • Money is slow to build up. 
  • It is so easy to get stuck in places or behind fences or pinned in by a taxibot. 
  • The camera is the true enemy, as you will always struggle to see things ahead, whether it be the view of going up the hill or balloons from a special customer; it’s a nightmare. 
  • It’s just so slow to get going, and so many of the customers repeat themselves. 

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A glowing route appears on the ground in Taxi Chaos 2 as the player tears through the city toward their destination.

Taxi Chaos 2

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Developer: Focuspoint Studios

Publisher: Current Games

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Taxi Chaos 2 Review

Jim Smale

Graphics
80%
Sound
70%
Accessibility
70%
Length
80%
Fun Factor
80%

Summary

Taxi Chaos 2: The Thrills and Highlights of Gameplay
Taxi Chaos 2 delivers fast taxi driving gameplay built around picking up customers and getting them to their destination as fast as possible for bonus cash. It is a pure love letter to Crazy Taxi with drifting, jump moves, and a full 3D city that constantly changes things up with random events like closing roads or moving ramps. Arcade mode lets you pick up whoever you want, earn cash, level up, and choose one of two upgrades each time. You unlock new cars with the money you earn, and each vehicle has unique stats for acceleration, top speed, turning, braking, drift, and weight. Taxi bots try to ram you off the road, but you can smash them up for chip pieces. The customer satisfaction bar reacts to how you drive, and the colour around a customer shows how difficult the fare is. Abilities unlock through the tech lab, and each has a cooldown. You can customise your taxi colours and livery for free and buy wheels and steering wheels with cash. Controls are easy to learn and feel familiar to racing fans, with arrows on the floor always guiding you to your destination. Chaos resolvers appear as rare red marker customers with huge rewards, and the world itself feels like a character as you play.

Taxi Chaos 2: Where It Falls Short Key Negatives
Taxi Chaos 2 runs into a range of performance and presentation issues that drag the experience down. Pop‑in, slowdown, and a general lack of detail are not as common as the PC version, but when it happens its a big deal, and the screen is overloaded with location images, multiple distance counters, arrows, and constant pop‑ups fighting for attention. Passengers recycle the same handful of voice lines, and the world regularly glitches out, with AI cars launching into the air, bridges flickering in and out, and other bits of chaos that feel unintentional rather than fun.

Taxi Chaos 2 Immersive Story and Narrative Elements
Story mode in Taxi Chaos 2 has you doing shifts to earn chips and cash, which you then spend on character hats, vehicles, customisation, and story items. You get new goals at different parts of the day, and completing them quickly earns data points, which act as exp to level you up. The story is very basic and familiar, and it takes ages to get going. You can explore during shifts and even do small world activities like scoring a goal on the soccer pitch to unlock a new hat. In-game cutscenes and character interactions can be skipped, and some conversations happen as you play, but the mode does not clearly explain how a shift ends, which adds to the confusion.

Taxi Chaos 2: Visual and Performance Aspects
Taxi Chaos 2 offers decent graphics with a 4.45GB download size and a Platinum trophy. However, the performance issues hold it back with slowdown, pop-in, and a general lack of detail. The busy screen layout and the camera problems make it even harder to enjoy the visuals, and the glitches add to the chaos in ways that are not always fun.

Taxi Chaos 2 Overall Verdict: Is It Worth Playing?
Taxi Chaos 2 has a lot of depth with its abilities, upgrades, unlockable vehicles, and customisation options. The arcade mode is fun, and the core idea of fast taxi runs with drifting and smashing taxi bots is enjoyable. The world is changing around you, and the rare chaos resolvers add excitement. But the performance issues, glitches, slow progression, repeated customers, and frustrating camera make it a rough ride. There is a solid foundation here, but it needs more polish to truly shine.

Back of the Box Quotes
Fast fares, wild streets and full throttle chaos. Drift, smash and race through a city that never sits still

76%

Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!

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