At last year’s Game Awards, Sega pulled a crazy move and announced not one, but half a dozen revivals of beloved series that have been dormant for a long time. Chief among them was a new Crazy Taxi game, and we’ve finally gotten the first details about it, namely that it’ll be a large scale multiplayer game in a vast open world, which I don’t believe anybody really asked for. According to Automaton , which translated a video interview with the developers and first reported the details, Sega has some ambitious plans for the revival of its beloved series, but they seem a little preliminary.
The developers that appear on camera seem to suggest that,though they’re currently planning for the new Crazy Taxi to be a massively multiplayer game, the team currently lacks programmers with the skills to build the infrastructure. Development on the new Crazy Taxi game seems early days, and as such, the interview partially functions as a call for more developers to join Sega and help make the title. As spotted by Automaton, the Crazy Taxi recruitment page has several listings calling the game a “large-scale online title.
” The team featured in the interview also use language that seems to suggest that plans could change if they don’t work out, but that this is the current direction for the Crazy Taxi revival. The game is currently being developed in Unreal Engine 4 and, as such, will feature a realistic city as one of its maps, as well as a theme park. The goal seems to be t.
