Crazy Taxi: World Tour Director Confirms There's Still A "Giant Surprise"

Crazy Taxi: World Tour's Soundtrack Has The Offspring, Bad Religion, And "One Giant Surprise" Published Sep 2, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT Sam Woods is TheGamer’s Senior Reporter. He’s been in games journalism since 2020 and has undertaken a variety of roles in that time. These have included roles such as SEO Editor, Managing Editor at DualShockers, and Global Head of Gaming, and he's also been seen on the BBC. He was promoted to the Senior Reporter position in 2025 following a series of high-quality reports and exclusives for TheGamer. Since 2020, Sam has written over 2,500 articles and specializes in telling the stories of the people behind the games. He’s interviewed the biggest game directors, some of the industry’s top talents, told the stories of how indie games came to be, and spoken to players about what really makes them tick. He’s also interviewed some of the world’s biggest musical artists to find out how the medium has inspired their work, and TV and Film actors about their roles in video game adaptations. He even hosted a PAX panel in 2021 and made a documentary in 2024 surrounding the creation of a Disney game. Alongside this, Sam focuses on breaking news. He got the scoop on Perfect Dark’s cancellation, got context around some AI drama, and revealed how Lady Dimitrescu’s actress would love to step back into the character’s giant shoes. These articles have been picked up by the biggest gaming sites, including IGN, GameSpot, and PC Gamer. He also loves to dive into the numbers behind the games. Sam’s journey in games journalism has taken him all over the world. He’s covered Gamescom in Germany, Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles, and Tokyo Game Show in Japan, each on more than one occasion. He’s been learning Japanese since 2024 with the intention of identifying and translating Japanese-language news and bringing it to English-language audiences first, something he’s done countless times. Sam’s first review was 2020’s Battletoads reboot, and he’s since reviewed games in The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario, and Pokemon franchises. Crazy Taxi's soundtrack is iconic. It may not have been the largest, containing only seven songs, but The Offspring's "All I Want" and its infamous "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" are synonymous with the game. At Gamescom this year, I was given the opportunity to sit down with Crazy Taxi legend Kenji Kanno and, naturally, being a massive fan of the original, I had to ask about what we could expect from the soundtrack for World Tour, to which he told me there was "one giant surprise". Crazy Taxi: World Tour Director Teases A "Giant Surprise" For Upcoming Game's Soundtrack Sega Alongside my time with Kanno, I got to play 30 minutes of Crazy Taxi: World Tour's Germany-inspired level. It didn't take long for "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" to hit my eardrums, and I knew I was going to be all in on the game. We already kind of knew The Offspring and Bad Religion would be in the game this time around, so I asked Kanno how much planning went into it, and if it was a conscious decision to keep things feeling similar to Sega's 1990s classic. “I always had a plan for the soundtrack, and I also heard different voices of stakeholders asking me, 'Will there be Offspring? Will there be Bad Religion?’” he tells me. “That's the reason why I chose to stick with this kind of music." It seems that much of Sega's internal employee base wanted the soundtrack to stay the same, so we have them to thank. But Kanno, knowing how enthusiastic I was about Crazy Taxi's musical feel, couldn't help but drop a big teaser for what's in store. "On the soundtrack, there will be another giant surprise I cannot reveal right now, but please look forward to the information coming out. I'm sure everybody will be like, ‘Oh!’” he exclaims with a grin. On the soundtrack, there will be another giant surprise I cannot reveal right now. My hands-on preview of World Tour from Gamescom is now live. I loved my time with the game, and said, "Crazy Taxi: World Tour is shaping up to be everything I wanted from a new Crazy Taxi game. It takes everything that made the original so special, and modernizes it in a way that makes things more fluid and dynamic for newer audiences." My interview with Kanno will be live in full later today. Released 2027 Developer(s) Sega Publisher(s) Sega Multiplayer Online Multiplayer Cross-Platform Play Full Genre(s) Racing, Action, Adventure