Taxi Driver

Developer: Papaya Studio
Platforms: Xbox, PlayStation 2
Genres: Shooter

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An unreleased, gritty urban shooter adaptation that promised a tense, movie-inspired action experience but never reached players.

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About

Taxi Driver was to be a video game adaptation of the 1976 movie of the same name, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. With a release planned for 2006, Taxi Driver was being developed by Papaya Studio for the Xbox and the Playstation 2 and would receive a fair amount of attention in 2005, attention it found itself sharing with the tidal wave of video game adaptations of classic movies that swept the industry around that time.

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