Sega has large ambitions for the Loopy Taxi reboot — it’s described it as an open-world, massively multiplayer AAA sport.
Loopy Taxi is a driving sport collection that first appeared in arcades in 1999 earlier than ports on consoles such because the Dreamcast noticed it get pleasure from reputation within the house. You play a taxi driver who speeds by town to ship passengers to their locations, performing stunts to earn factors alongside the way in which.
Throughout The Sport Awards 2023, Sega introduced new video games within the Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, and Loopy Taxi franchises alongside the teaser trailer, under. The video reveals temporary gameplay clips of every of the video games set to return.
In February, Takaya Segawa, who runs Sega’s help studio in Sapporo, briefly talked about the Loopy Taxi reboot as a AAA sport.
Now, in a developer-focused video interview reported on and translated by Automaton, Sega supplied extra info, confirming Loopy Taxi is a “large-scale, open-world, massively multiplayer driving sport” powered by Unreal Engine.
Producer Kenji Kanno stated that the brand new Loopy Taxi might be performed by many gamers without delay, with the purpose of sustaining the traditional Loopy Taxi type amid these new mechanics. There’s point out of a theme park-like map and motifs impressed by the U.S. West Coast. As Automaton famous, one picture reveals the participant driving a police automotive, suggestion new forms of modes.
There isn’t a launch date but for the Loopy Taxi reboot or the opposite new video games introduced eventually 12 months’s Sport Awards. Final month, it was reported that Sega is growing a remake of the unique Jet Set Radio as a separate mission to the formally introduced franchise reboot, with screenshots and pictures popping up on-line.
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