- Crazy Taxi: World Tour has been announced and will launch in 2027
- The game features multiplayer modes for the first time
- Series creator Kenji Kanno says some staff have experience with multiplayer games and “with their knowledge we were able to create a multiplayer mode”
Sega has officially announced Crazy Taxi: World Tour, a brand new part of the classic driving action series, launching for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Series S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC in 2027.
Revealed during the Xbox Games Showcase 2026, the game will be led by the original Crazy taxi creator, Kenji Kanno, and take players on a story-driven campaign around the world as longtime series protagonist Axel, hunting down mysterious masked villains who stole his beloved taxi.
The trailer, set to the iconic track ‘All I Want’ by The Offspring, showcased new gameplay features such as brand new maps and missions, vehicles and customization, and an Arcade mode that captures the excitement of the original games.
“This new title, Crazy Taxi: World Touris not just a recreation of the original Crazy taxi gameplay,” Kanno said in a Q&A following the reveal, “But there is a story mode that expands the world and background of the characters in Crazy taxi. Players can expect a lot of content.”
The series creator added that while there are fans of the series who will be excited to get their hands on the World tourthe game will also appeal to the younger generation and those who are not at all familiar with the series, revealing that many of the staff who developed the game are also young.
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“Our staff with the development of the World Tour, there are actually a lot of very young staff in their twenties, and it’s not just old people like me,” said Kanno. “We’re pretty much all sitting at the same table and really working together to make a game that will appeal to all generations”.
Unlike previous entries in Crazy taxi series, World tour will also be the first game to feature multiplayer modes, which Kanno knows has been highly requested by longtime fans.
“There will be multiplayer and even when I created the original [Crazy] Taxi back in 1999, a lot of our players were like, ‘Hey, I want to play this game with my friends,’ but you know, back then we were limited by technology,” he said.
“But now in 2026, even in our development team, there are many of our employees who have experience with multiplayer games. So with their knowledge, we were able to create a multiplayer mode for Taxi likewise.
“We are focusing on the single player story mode part of the game, but we have a multiplayer mode for those who want to be more hardcore […] But of course both are very fun modes.”
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