Crazy Taxi World Tour will offer more freedom, bite-sized missions and fishing with a car - Engadget

Crazy Taxi is back. It's part of Sega's push to bring its greatest hits and franchises to a new generation of gamers — refreshed, remade and presented in widescreen. It's also aimed at the game's superfans, with a soundtrack pulled straight out of 1999. Kenji Kanno, creator of the original Crazy Taxi, is working as creative producer of World Tour and is excited by everyone's reaction as he careened down steep roads, swerved across squares and even dived into the sea, all in the iconic yellow taxi we all still remember. The core experience hasn't changed: You're still picking up and dropping off passengers, attempting to make the trip in the most unhinged (and high-scoring) way possible. During a hands-off demo, World Tour looks like a more vibrant, open world. There are pedestrians pretty much everywhere, and a lot of traffic on the roads, trying to make your taxi-driving job harder. Fortunately, most cars and vehicles have that arcadey floatiness to them, so your taxi can punt them off the road with relative ease. Each driving region also comes with a nighttime permutation, which Kanno himself seemed very satisfied with. The producer added that World Tour will include a story mode