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12.01.2024 - 10:11 / gamingbolt.com / Tom Henderson
At The Game Awards last month, Sega announced that it was working on reboots for five of its classic franchises in Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Streets of Rage, Shinobi, and Golden Axe, and ended the bumper trailer with a tease of more similar projects coming in the future. Now, a report published by Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson has potentially revealed more details on those projects in particular.
According to Henderson, between 2020 and 2021, Sega greenlit as many as 10 reboots for its classic franchises as part of its “Super Game” initiative, of which it revealed five at The Game Awards. Of the remaining five, Henderson claims that three are Panzer Dragoon, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Sakura Wars. All three are allegedly in the early stages of development.
Panzer Dragoon’s last mainline release was Panzer Dragoon Orta all the way back in 2002, though we did get Panzer Dragoo Remake, which was developed by MegaPixel Studio and published by Forever Entertainment, in 2020.
Sakura Wars is a more curious case, having already received a soft reboot not that long ago, in 2019. Meanwhile, Neon Genesis Evangelion is, of course, not a Sega franchise, though it would seem the company has picked up the license to developer a major AAA game based on it.
Henderson is unsure what the remaining two of then ten aforementioned projects are, but speculates that they could be any of the eight additional trademarks that were recently filed by Sega, those being Alex Kidd, After Burner, House of the Dead, Outrun, Super Monkey Ball, Altered Beast Eternal, Champions Kid, and Chameleon.
Following its announcement of five classic revivals last month, Sega also revealed further brief details on the projects, confirming that Jet Set Radio will be open world and revealing details on Crazy Taxi, Shinobi, and Golden Axe, while also confirming the next Streets of Rage game’s title as Streets of Rage Revolution.
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