{"id":72494,"date":"2026-07-29T08:22:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=72494"},"modified":"2026-07-29T08:22:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:22:02","slug":"a-chance-to-get-behind-the-wheel-of-crazy-taxi-world-tour-is-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=72494","title":{"rendered":"A Chance To Get Behind The Wheel Of Crazy Taxi: World Tour Is Coming Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Crazy-Taxi-World-Tour-Network-Test-Announced.jpg?w=300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those itching to take Crazy Taxi: World Tour for a test drive can now sign up for their chance, as developer Sega has announced a multiplayer closed network test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crazy Taxi: World Tour&#8217;s closed network test will run September 11-13 in the US. Those interested will need to sign up on the game&#8217;s website by August 31. The test will be available on all of Crazy Taxi: World Tour&#8217;s announced platforms (Xbox Series X|S, PC, and PlayStation 5), though Sega states on its website that certain platforms &#8220;may have limited participant capacity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The announcement of the network test comes alongside a new trailer highlighting the game&#8217;s West Coast, a location that will look familiar to fans of Sega&#8217;s manic driving franchise but will be just one of its playable locations. It is called &#8220;World Tour&#8221; after all, though Sega has not yet announced additional locales as of yet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Crazy Taxi: World Tour | Welcome to the West Coast\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XordDIexPAQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crazy Taxi: World Tour was announced as part of the Xbox Games Showcase in June, with its debut trailer featuring a classic song from the original Crazy Taxi that is most often associated with the series, The Offspring&#8217;s &#8216;All I Want.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However,  Sega quickly found itself in hot water after it was revealed by the game&#8217;s Steam page that Crazy Taxi: World Tour was made in part with generative AI. A blurb on the Steam page states &#8220;We use generative AI as a support tool for developers, aiming to provide better content to our users and enable developers to focus on creative tasks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement to Game Informer, Sega said it used gen AI to develop background assets. Franchise creator Kenji Kanno later defended the studio&#8217;s use of AI in an interview, stating that the team used gen AI to generate ideas and as a reference, but that actual in-game assets were being created by humans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World Tour will be the first mainline entry in the Crazy Taxi franchise since 2002&#8217;s Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller, and is slated to release in 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/a-chance-to-get-behind-the-wheel-of-crazy-taxi-world-tour-is-coming-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those itching to take Crazy Taxi: World Tour for a test drive can now sign up for their chance, as developer Sega has announced a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2024,613,2579,3346,1262,10584,526],"class_list":["post-72494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-chance","tag-coming","tag-crazy","tag-taxi","tag-tour","tag-wheel","tag-world","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}