That Crazy Taxi reboot will apparently be a “triple-A” game

rockpapershotgun.com:

Sega’s upcoming reboot of ‘90s arcade classic Crazy Taxi will be a “triple-A” game, according to the head of one of the Japanese studios working on the driving game’s return.

Crazy Taxi was among the slew of Sega games revealed to be making a comeback during a rapid-fire trailer shown at the Geoff Awards in December, alongside the likes of Streets of Rage, Golden Axe and Jet Set Radio.

While Crazy Taxi has seen - like all series with at least a crumb of public recognition - a more recent mobile game spin-off, the franchise’s last original PC entry was Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller, released 20 years ago. Really though, I’d wager that most people only really remember the first entry - even if its PC port excised the iconic Offspring and Bad Religion-dominated soundtrack of the arcade and console releases for a new playlist.

With only a few scant seconds of gameplay glimpsed during that initial teaser, indicating some kind of multiple element and the ability to hop into other vehicles including sports cars and police cars, we don’t yet know exactly what form the Crazy Taxi reboot will take. Comments made by the president of Sega’s Sapporo Studio, which are working on the game, might give us plenty to speculate about in the meanwhile, at least.

Speaking to Japan Times for a profile of the relatively fledgling studio, who were established in the Hokkaido prefecture capital only a couple of years back at the end of 2021, Takaya Segawa said that the team were “participating in the development of Triple-A titles, including Crazy Taxi”. (Thanks, Eurogamer.) While Sega Sapporo aren’t leading development - Segawa clarified that the team are contributing and don’t have any independent projects of their own just yet - they are collaborating with the likes of Sega’s Tokyo and international studios.

The use of “triple-A” here should be taken with a mountain of salt, of course, given the way that major developers like to chuck the letter A at their games like I chuck sriracha sauce at