Crazy Taxi at 25: 5 Things We Want From the New Game

If you’ve visited an arcade in the past two decades, you’ve likely come across Crazy Taxi, usually found hidden in a corner. Otherwise, you may have been gifted the game as a present when it came out on the Sega Dreamcast console in 2000.

For those unaware, Crazy Taxi is an arcade racer where players can pick up different passengers and bring them to their destinations within a time limit. What made the series memorable was how simple but addictive the gameplay was. Tricks could also be performed to boost the taxi’s speed to get to a certain place in time, which only ramped up the fun.

The Crazy Taxi series has since become a cult classic, with the first game even being mentioned by Tim Walz, the Democratic nominee for United States vice president in the 2024 election, that it’s his all-time favorite game.

Several Crazy Taxi sequels and remasters were brought out, improving on the series’ tropes, but the series has been in a lull recently until Sega announced in 2023 that a new game is being developed.

Now that we’re all patiently awaiting what could be Crazy Taxi 4, we’ve listed five things that we want to see in the new game that can be inspired by previous Crazy Taxi entries.

Table of Contents Table of Contents

1. Key Takeaways
2. 5 Things We Want to See From the New Crazy Taxi Game
3. The Bottom Line
4. FAQs
5. References

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Table of Contents

1. Key Takeaways
2. 5 Things We Want to See From the New Crazy Taxi Game
3. The Bottom Line
Show Full Guide
4. FAQs
5. References

5 Things We Want to See From the New Crazy Taxi Game

More Cities

Previous Crazy Taxi games have offered huge maps that have been reminiscent of cities such as New York and Las Vegas, but there’s a lot of potential for the next game to do more. Instead of looking at America, perhaps there can be multiple maps inspired by cities around the world. Imagine a map inspired by London, Edinburgh, or even something completely different that takes the best parts of a country into one map, such as Indonesia.

New Vehicles

In a time when you can use Uber and Lyft apps to call on different vehicles to get you from A to B, the very notion of what a ‘Taxi’ is has gone far beyond a car in 2025. For the next Crazy Taxi game, the addition of bikes, Tuk-Tuks, and even boats would be great ways to expand upon the series. For instance, the tricks and jumps that previous games are known for could be given fresh takes with different vehicles.

Other games like Burnout Paradise introduced bikes after featuring many games of just cars, and it gave players a new way to boost and crash into other vehicles. Picking up passengers on bikes and performing many tricks to take them to where they need to be can still honor what Crazy Taxi gameplay is but in a whole new way.

A Banging Soundtrack

Another part of what makes Crazy Taxi so memorable is its soundtrack of licensed songs.  From The Offspring to Bad Religion, it gives players a sense of nostalgia but still fits the theme of Crazy Taxi’s music. For the next entry, let’s see these tracks return, as well as new ones featuring bands that new players can spot.

More Minigames

Exclusive to the console versions, each Crazy Taxi game had a variety of minigames you could play. This included popping balloons within a time limit, jumping onto different platforms, and playing golf. These are itching to make a return in the next Crazy Taxi entry, but add in some multiplayer fun, and there’ll be plenty to enjoy here between friends and family.

Add Multipliers When Earning Extra Cash

In the Tony Hawk games, players would do a series of tricks that would enable multipliers for the points. A value could be ten times as much, and it was incredibly satisfying when the final score would be seen after the tricks were successfully pulled off.

For the next Crazy Taxi entry, something similar for its tricks when picking up passengers would work well in a similar vein. Imagine the scene — you’re trying to drop off a Vicar at a church, but you’re drifting, grinding, and avoiding traffic to build up multipliers for extra cash.

The Bottom Line

As it’s been 20 years since the last mainline entry in the Crazy Taxi series, there’s so much that a new game can bring to old and new audiences alike. The five things above could easily keep what’s made the games so memorable throughout the years yet bring fresh twists to the concept that can only add to the addictive fun the series is known for.

Sega knows what it has with its existing IPs, with new entries in Shinobi, Golden Axe, and more also in development. Yet Crazy Taxi is one of its ‘youngest’ brands that players want to see appear sooner rather than later. With the new entry in development, we might not have to wait too long to see what this will involve. But as long as the developers keep to what made the series so much fun, the new game could end up being one to remember all over again, just like previous entries.

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