Sega is preparing a new, open-world 'Crazy Taxi' game with multiplayer mode

Sega has confirmed it's working on the next installment in the Crazy Taxi series, and details about the reboot are starting to trickle out. The new game will again put you behind the wheel of a taxi, but it will feature an open world described as "massive" and a multiplayer mode.

The idea isn't to remaster one of the original games, like the arcade version that launched in 1999 or the Dreamcast version released a year later. Sega is instead channeling the spirit of the original into a new title developed for the 2020s. It's not just cars that have evolved over the past 20 years; video games have changed significantly, and what worked in the early 1990s and the early 2000s likely wouldn't sell today.

In a Japanese-language video spotted by our colleagues at The Drive, Sega described the game as something along the lies of Mario Kart's Battle Mode. You'll be racing against the clock, which has always been the case, but you'll also be competing against other players. It sounds kind of like the original Crazy Taxi meets Grand Theft Auto with a little less violence, which is somewhat ironic as Grand Theft Auto III stole Crazy Taxi's thunder when it was released in 2001 by letting players take on taxi missions as side quests. We've come full circle.