Crazy Taxi: City Rush is a new mobile game that's free-to-hey-hey-hey

Sega announced Crazy Taxi: City Rush this morning, a new free-to-play entry that's being developed exclusively for mobiles. Kenji Kanno, the man who created the original 1999 arcade game, is back as an exec producer on the series' first new entry in seven years.

The dev behind the steering wheel is Hardlight Studios, the mobile specialist team that recently delivered Sonic Dash. Hardlight is going with one-touch controls like swiping to switch between lanes, but the aim of City Rush remains the same: grab some unsuspecting passenger and deliver them to their destination as quickly and recklessly as possible.

Looking at the nitty-gritty features, in City Rush you can cab Facebook friends around the city, and there's support for both portrait and landscape play. Most important of all, you select your own music to drive to; we've already got the four Offspring and Bad Religion songs we need lined up and ready to cycle endlessly.

Also, Sega is marking today's announcement by making the original Crazy Taxifree on iOS and Android for a limited time. Meanwhile, City Rush is due to screech onto our sidewalks later this year.

http://www.joystiq.com/2014/03/14/cr...ree-to-hey-he/