Sega is a news that will fall like bombs in the game world: in high expectations for Crazy Taxi Re which will soon come. This restructuring is planned as a modern review of Crazy Taxi, one of the classics in the company’s past, and Sega draws gold from which this project will be in triple-A quality.
Sega works on Crazy Taxi Reboot, re revitalization of the
Crazy Taxi is performed by the Sapporo Studio, which was founded in December 2021, leading multiple gaming projects. In a article located in Japan Times, Sega’s top-end manager and President of Sapporo Studio Takaya Segawa informed about the roles and goals of the studio. Segawa stated that they are in collaboration with Tokyo and other international bases in projects such as “Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis” and “Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage”. Also, “We are also located in the construction of triple-A games such as Crazy Taxi” said, and the studio expressed that they plan to develop games on their own in the future.
In addition to the
Crazy Taxi series, Sega plans new games for series like Jet Set Radio, Streets of Rage, Golden Akse and Shinobi. However, the amount of budget allocated for these projects has not been disclosed yet. The original version of Crazy Taxi was launched as a moderately successful arcade game in 1999 and gained great popularity with the home version made for Dreamcast in 2000. The game achieved the success of being the third best-selling game in the Dreamcast system in the United States. The series was inspired by several continuing games and spins-offs, but “Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller” was not made a new main entry in the series after appeared for Xbox 22 years ago.