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.

Crazy Taxi: World Tour’s closed network test will run September 11-13 in the US. Those interested will need to sign up on the game’s website by August 31. The test will be available on all of Crazy Taxi: World Tour’s announced platforms (Xbox Series X|S, PC, and PlayStation 5), though Sega states on its website that certain platforms “may have limited participant capacity.”

The announcement of the network test comes alongside a new trailer highlighting the game’s West Coast, a location that will look familiar to fans of Sega’s manic driving franchise but will be just one of its playable locations. It is called “World Tour” after all, though Sega has not yet announced additional locales as of yet. 

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’s ‘All I Want.’

However, Sega quickly found itself in hot water after it was revealed by the game’s Steam page that Crazy Taxi: World Tour was made in part with generative AI. A blurb on the Steam page states “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.”

In a statement to Game Informer, Sega said it used gen AI to develop background assets. Franchise creator Kenji Kanno later defended the studio’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. 

World Tour will be the first mainline entry in the Crazy Taxi franchise since 2002’s Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller, and is slated to release in 2027. 

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