Sega’s upcoming Crazy Taxi reboot is a “massively multiplayer driving game,” according to a new recruitment video.
The new Crazy Taxi is being developed by Sega’s Sapporo Studio, which was established in December 2021 and collaborates on the development of various Sega games.
in New Recruitment Video With the Japanese version now out, producer Kenji Kanno, who also served as director of the original Crazy Taxi game, and other members of the development team have shared new details about the reboot.
According to the video, the development team is currently testing adapting the classic Crazy Taxi gameplay, in which players drive passengers to their destinations as quickly as possible, to a multiplayer game world.
According to the video, the reboot of Crazy Taxi will be set in a realistic metropolis modeled after the West Coast of the United States, with a map that will be “like a theme park.”
Job Information Providing further details, the listing describes the new Crazy Taxi as a “new major online title” with open world and “massively multiplayer driving game” elements. According to the listing, Crazy Taxi is built with the Unreal Engine.
At The Game Awards in December, Sega announced that it was developing new games for the Jet Set Radio, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, Shinobi, and Crazy Taxi series.
The original Crazy Taxi found some success as an arcade game in 1999, but became even more popular when a home version was released for the Dreamcast in 2000, eventually becoming the console’s third best-selling game in the United States.
The game has had several sequels and spin-offs, but the last completely new mainline entry in the series was Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller, which was released as an Xbox exclusive 22 years ago.