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In the developer interview published July 1, series producer Kenji Kanno remarks that the upcoming game is being developed as a “completely new” Crazy Taxi that can be played by many players at once. The team is currently resolving the specifics and testing the game’s compatibility with multiplayer play. Their goal is to maintain the Crazy Taxi style while implementing new mechanics. Apart from a realistic city environment, the developers mention working on a theme park-like map and motifs inspired by the US West Coast.

The recruitment page for the new Crazy Taxi offers a number of positions, ranging from game designer to level designer, effects designer, character modeler, concept artist, and more. The posting also reveals that Sega is aiming for a large-scale global hit with the game, which will be open-world, massively multiplayer and run in Unreal Engine.

A previously released teaser video had hinted at a potential multiplayer mode, showing multiple taxis driving in the game field, and this has now been confirmed. Incidentally, the teaser also showed a player driving a police car, which means that we can probably expect a variety of modes.

Sega Sapporo Studio, established in 2021, is participating in the development of the new Crazy Taxi title, and the studio’s president, Takaya Segawa, has previously described it as an AAA title.

The upcoming Crazy Taxi sequel is currently in development. The release date and compatible platforms have yet to be announced.

New Crazy Taxi title will be an open-world, massively multiplayer AAA game, according to Sega - AUTOMATON WEST

Sega's recruitment posting reveals that the new Crazy Taxi will be a large-scale open-world game.

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[YOU PC BRO?!]

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!

 

[Ryuji Goda]

Season pass?

 

[NanaMiku]

Dang, looks like it's still at early stages of the development.

 

[Jesb]

Are they seriously making this game a GAAS game?

 

[Embearded]

My pitch:

1. Recreation of NYC, 1:1 scale
2. Realtime connection to Uber servers
3. You are getting assigned a real call for a cab
4. You try to be faster than the real driver
5. You get his entire tip if you can beat him

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

If this is legitimate, of course it has to be huge open world, live service and massively multiplayer. Next Virtua Fighter 6 will probably be open world, live service as well. I don’t mind multiplayer, but I’m not sure how open world will work for Crazy Taxi. Guess we’ll see.

 

[WhamBamThankYouMaam]

I want this to be similar to Test Drive Unlimited.

What I will get is Burnout Paradise with shitloads of paid DLC.

 

[AzekZero]

I'll keep my eye on this.

 

[Hudo]

Ngl, an MMO Crazy Taxi could actually work... And I am usually one of the MMO/live-service haters.

 

[IAmRei]

if we can exit the car, i might consider to like, but i dont play MMO much since 2006, i dont know...

 

[existensmaximum]

Multiplayer?

 

[nush]

"Lets take an arcade game that's supposed to be played in short bursts, and make a version expecting people to play for 100's of hours" - Sega moment.

 

[Barakov]

Whatever. I'll take any Crazy Taxi at this point.

 

[Fart Knight]

Crazy Uber Simulator

 

[SHA]

"Massively Multiplayer" one rock bottom
"Open World" two rock bottom
"AAA" three rock bottom

 

[March Climber]

This sounds like a dream game project. I’ll keep my expectations in check for now until I see footage.

The last Car MMO I had fun with was Auto Assault, which was essentially like a Twisted Metal MMO.

 

[cireza]

Not interested in some always online game.

 

[Thanati]

Are they seriously making this game a GAAS game?

Yes and it sounds awesome!

 

[nemiroff]

I enjoyed a few sessions of Crazy Taxi back in the days. But it is an incredibly simple concept and 99% short burst driven nostalgia. Good luck Sega.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Sounds expensive

 

[Team Andromeda]

"Lets take an arcade game that's supposed to be played in short bursts, and make a version expecting people to play for 100's of hours" - Sega moment.

Let's make a stupid comment for nush moment.

If this was being designed 1st as a Arcade game you might have had a point.

 

[Majukun]

the mmorpg aspect might be good, but going for AAA budget is a terrible idea

 

[Fart Knight]

Sounds expensive

Game Pass Day One

 

[Hudo]

"Massively Multiplayer" one rock bottom
"Open World" two rock bottom
"AAA" three rock bottom

I have a general question about wrestling: How real is it? I have just learnt that there are storylines and each wrestler is a character? So is this more like a reality show? Is everything scripted?

 

[NeonDelta]

Sure I read a while ago there is the GAAS game and also a remake

 

[StueyDuck]

Soooo GTA but worse?

 

[Von Hugh]

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I have a general question about wrestling: How real is it? I have just learnt that there are storylines and each wrestler is a character? So is this more like a reality show? Is everything scripted?

Every match outcome is predetermined. Every match these days is also planned out move for move before the show with some improvising. It's very much physical theater. With storylines resolved in the ring. There are some tremendous athletes involved for sure though and it certainly can hurt and takes a toll on their bodies.

 

[LordCBH]

Massively multiplayer?

They ruined it already and it’s not even out.

 

[Hypereides]

My pitch:

1. Recreation of NYC, 1:1 scale
2. Realtime connection to Uber servers
3. You are getting assigned a real call for a cab
4. You try to be faster than the real driver
5. You get his entire tip if you can beat him

Wtf, how could you even call it Crazy taxi anymore after this?

Sounds like you're pitching the sequel for the next taxi driver simulator.

 

[SHA]

I have a general question about wrestling: How real is it? I have just learnt that there are storylines and each wrestler is a character? So is this more like a reality show? Is everything scripted?

The dialogue part, I'd give it %30, the rest upto the performer, that's why they get pissed from that question back in the day, it insult their efforts.

 

[Punished Miku]

Make it like the old Star Wars MMO where everyone had really mundane jobs like bartender or farmer, just to build up the world, and only a small handful of people got to be Jedi. You'd need players to have all kinds of mundane jobs throughout the city to build up the economy so they have the money to hire the fabled "Crazy Taxi," and there's only a few of them per server. And if you're late for your job 3x you get fired, so that's why hiring the insane taxi is so important. This could work.

 

[Esppiral]

They really want to kill the franchise....

 

[Hudo]

Every match outcome is predetermined. Every match these days is also planned out move for move before the show with some improvising. It's very much physical theater. With storylines resolved in the ring. There are some tremendous athletes involved for sure though and it certainly can hurt and takes a toll on their bodies.

The dialogue part, I'd give it %30, the rest upto the performer, that's why they get pissed from that question back in the day, it insult their efforts.

Ah, Ok. Thanks.

Sorry for the question, wrestling is not really a thing here but it looks ridiculous (in a good way).

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

My pitch:

1. Recreation of NYC, 1:1 scale
2. Realtime connection to Uber servers
3. You are getting assigned a real call for a cab
4. You try to be faster than the real driver
5. You get his entire tip if you can beat him

 

[Embearded]

Wtf, how could you even call it Crazy taxi anymore after this?

Sounds like you're pitching the sequel for the next taxi driver simulator.

The Crazy part would take place in the real world.
Imagine how the drivers would behave now that their tips are in danger.

 

[SHA]

Every match outcome is predetermined. Every match these days is also planned out move for move before the show with some improvising. It's very much physical theater. With storylines resolved in the ring. There are some tremendous athletes involved for sure though and it certainly can hurt and takes a toll on their bodies.

But they can't control the audience and their reactions.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

"Lets take an arcade game that's supposed to be played in short bursts, and make a version expecting people to play for 100's of hours" - Sega moment.

And the soundtrack will be four 2-minute punk songs on loop.

 

[StereoVsn]

I enjoyed a few sessions of Crazy Taxi back in the days. But it is an incredibly simple concept and 99% short burst driven nostalgia. Good luck Sega.

Yeah, the last thing I wanted was GaaS MMO out of Crazy Taxi. I liked the various iterations of arcade and console games, but I guess I am too old for this shit now.

 

[ReBurn]

Uber simulator

 

[Duchess]

With luck, they'll also be putting in similar effort with Golden Axe.

 

[Bring Back Scalebound]

All the multiplayer stuff is fine, I think it would make the game more exciting seeing other Taxis just going wild on the roads.

I'm just getting the "eww" from referring to Crazy Taxi as a Triple A game, and making it open world.

It's the equivalent to Brazzers putting all this fluff in their videos, with comedy, extras, a shitton of dialogue, and so on and so on. I appreciate the effort, but people appreciate porn in short bursts, and they don't watch porn to laugh.
They watch it to get themselves off, then they move on.
And then they come back to it again, and then they move on.

And not only is that okay, that is actually a very valid way to have fun, that very few games are offering right now.

That Arcadey fast paced fun, that you enjoy for a couple of minutes or a few hours, and then you go do something else, until you feel the urge to play it again. Which you most likely will!

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Not surprising. I wonder if it launches on mobile too though.

 

[Putyouinmyoven]

This may be the first time in my life where a series has gone open world and I’ve thought that it might actually be a good idea

 

[Markio128]

I loved Crazy Taxi back on the Dreamcast. I just don’t know how such a simple concept would fare (pun well and truly intended) nowadays. Especially since you can do the same thing in recent GTAs.

 

[Magic Carpet]

My pitch:
A rouge AI has taken over a fleet of self driving taxies and wants to take out humanity. As one of the remaining real person taxi drivers you try and take them all out while also getting people to their destination.

 

[Varteras]

Men_in_Boxes right now

 

[MrRibeye]

Vehicle-based MMO is the type of innovation I like to see in the games industry.

 

[diffusionx]

Vehicle-based MMO is the type of innovation I like to see in the games industry.

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