Sega's beloved arcade racer makes a major comeback with some bold choices

It's a fast and furious world, and Crazy Taxi is keeping up Sega's new Crazy Taxi somehow manages to feel like a classic arcade experience and thoroughly modern at the same time. Announced Sunday at Xbox Games Showcase, Crazy Taxi: World Tour feels, at its core, very familiar: As the cabbie Axel, players will pick up fares and drive recklessly to ensure his clients get to their destinations in mere seconds, no matter how much damage and chaos he causes. As long as the customers are happy, he's happy. But Sega and original Crazy Taxi creator Kenji Kanno are clearly thinking much bigger than just recreating a 1999 arcade game with modern graphics. Axel now has a much larger set of "Crazy" driving moves at his disposal, and his customers have a very broad range of special requests. They don't just want to go to Tower Records or Pizza Hut anymore; they want Axel to take them fishing and help them deliver huge stacks of pizzas. These new additions to the gameplay are called, appropriately, Crazy Missions. During a hands-off demo at Summer Game Fest Play Days, Kanno and another member of the Crazy Taxi: World Tour team showed off how the series has evolved over the past 27 years. In addi