Crazy Taxi: World Tour is playable at Tokyo Game Show 2026 and is scheduled for release in 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PC and Nintendo Switch 2.
This is not a small nostalgic reissue. Sega is turning the series into a five-city international campaign with vehicle progression, side missions and online multiplayer.
The obvious cultural markers are still in place
Axel returns, joined by B.D. Joe, Gena and Gus. Cars still leap through traffic, passengers still demand impossible delivery times and the soundtrack again includes music from The Offspring and Bad Religion.
That music matters more here than it would in most driving games. Crazy Taxi's punk soundtrack helped create the impression that every run was moving faster than it actually was.
World Tour finally makes the title literal
The campaign begins after masked criminals steal Axel's taxi, sending him across five cities to recover it.
The West Coast location deliberately carries the visual inheritance of the series' American setting. Germany changes the rhythm with countryside, villages, winding roads and castles.
Other cities remain unrevealed.
Modernization is useful until it gets in the way
The original game was built around immediacy. A run started and almost immediately somebody was screaming from the back seat while an oversized arrow gave extremely approximate navigation advice.
World Tour adds unlockable cars, customization, a story campaign and side activities. All of that can give the game more long-term structure.
It can also put menus between the player and the thing Crazy Taxi was always best at.
Online play turns taxi work into direct competition
Sega has already tested two multiplayer modes. Pickup Race puts up to six players in the same competition for passengers and money, while Cops 'N' Cabbies divides six drivers into two opposing teams.
It is a fairly natural extension of a game that always treated traffic as something to collide with, jump over or narrowly avoid. The new complication is that some of those competing drivers now know exactly how irritating they are being.
Crazy Taxi is becoming a broader Sega property again
The game's TGS appearance also arrives only days after Sega and Netflix announced a live-action Crazy Taxi film.
The franchise is therefore returning simultaneously as a game, a nostalgia object and a property Sega wants to push beyond games again.
World Tour now has to prove that expansion does not erase the original appeal. The cab is still yellow. Everything around it has become much bigger.
