Earlier this month we realized that Sega’s large, secret “Tremendous Recreation” that has been in growth for some time was truly a sequence of “AAA video games”. Bloomberg is now reporting that the primary two of these are “big-budget” Jet Set Radio and Loopy Taxi reboots.
Loopy Taxi is reportedly a yr into growth, with its launch nonetheless a number of years away, and there are two additional, unnamed video games (certainly one of them an FPS) underneath the identical umbrella—Sega sees “Tremendous Recreation” as a label, not a single undertaking—being labored on as properly.
The Bloomberg report states that Sega is wanting on the Fortnite enterprise mannequin for each titles, aiming to “develop recurring income sources and construct on-line communities”. Be aware right here that Sega is on document beforehand as saying the “Tremendous Recreation” undertaking is a spot the corporate could experiment with NFTs.
Bizarrely, amidst all of the information, there’s additionally this disclaimer:
Each new video games are within the early levels of creation and will nonetheless be canceled, the individuals stated.
Jet Set Radio, first launched on the Dreamcast then remade for the Xbox and subsequently re-released on every kind of extra fashionable {hardware}, was a standout recreation on a standout console, that includes a synthesis of music, graffiti and skating that even 20 years later few (if any) video games have been capable of match.
The announcement of a brand new recreation within the sequence, lengthy after followers had given up hope of ever seeing a brand new launch, actually has attention-grabbing timing; a unique staff has since stepped into what they thought was a void to make Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, a recreation so near what Jet Set provided that it even options the unique’s composer Hideki Naganuma.
Loopy Taxi, in the meantime, started life within the arcade earlier than turning into certainly one of Sega’s largest video games on the Dreamcast (and past). In contrast to Jet Units’ near-total radio silence during the last 20 years, although, it has managed a variety of sequels and spin-offs through the years, although this sounds prefer it could possibly be the primary correct racing launch because the PSP’s Loopy Taxi: Fare Wars.
