Sega‘s in-development Loopy Taxi reboot is a “massively multiplayer driving sport”, a brand new recruitment video has revealed.
The brand new Loopy Taxi is being developed by Sega’s Sapporo Studio, which was established in December 2021 and helps with the event of assorted Sega video games.
In a brand new recruitment video printed in Japanese, producer Kenji Kanno – who was the director of the unique Loopy Taxi sport – and different members of the event group share new particulars on the reboot.
In response to the video, the event group is at present testing adapting the traditional Loopy Taxi gameplay – which has gamers transporting passengers to locations as quick as doable – right into a sport world with a number of gamers.
The rebooted Loopy Taxi will happen in a big, real looking metropolis based mostly on the USA’ west coast, with a ‘theme park-like’ map, in keeping with the video.
Job listings supply additional particulars, describing the brand new Loopy Taxi as “a brand new main on-line title” with an open world, and “massively multiplayer driving sport” parts. In response to the listings, Loopy Taxi is being inbuilt Unreal Engine.
Sega introduced at The Recreation Awards final December that it was growing new entries within the Jet Set Radio, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, Shinobi and Loopy Taxi collection.
The unique Loopy Taxi loved some success as an arcade sport in 1999 however turned way more standard when a house model was launched for the Dreamcast in 2000, in the end turning into the third best-selling sport on the console within the US.
The sport has seen a number of sequels and spin-offs, however the final totally new major entry within the collection was Loopy Taxi 3: Excessive Curler, which was launched 22 years in the past as an Xbox unique.
