The reboot of noughties gem Jet Set Radio teased with ruthless effectivity throughout The Sport Awards has had a smidge of latest data revealed. For being such a small element, although, it’s a really intriguing – if maybe a tad predictable – one certainly.
As a reminder, Sega confirmed a correct reboot for the cel-shaded Dreamcast-era traditional, marking its first actual displaying within the more-than-a-decade because the unique noticed a HD re-release in 2012. That’s should you don’t depend the clear tribute of recent successors like this 12 months’s Bombrush Cyberfunk, after all.
For these out of the loop within the decade(s) since both JSR sport got here out (the Dreamcast unique was adopted by an Xbox-only sequel in 2002’s Jet Set Radio Future), Jet Set Radio blends the trick-pulling of one thing like Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater – besides right here on rollerblades as a substitute of a skateboard – with the vibrant, rebellious perspective of one thing like Sundown Overdrive because the participant skates round to tag spots with graffiti whereas dodging pesky cops.
Whereas Sega’s TGA tease confirmed off a scant few split-seconds of gameplay for the brand new Jet Set Radio, the studio’s father or mother firm Sega Sammy dropped an additional morsel of information in a current slide deck from an inside assembly.
Beneath the extraordinarily Enterprise Presentation title of “Utilization of Legacy IPs”, showingcasing Sega’s “Lore & Innovation”, a picture of the Jet Set Radio reboot could be seen alongside the opposite Sega reboots introduced. Over the picture, description textual content reads: “‘Counter-Tradition’. Tokyo Road Open World.”
The implication that the reboot will give the sequence its first totally open world is supported by the following little bit of textual content, which says that gamers will “Expertise the ‘rebel’ motion that feels free in a suffocating society. Make pals, improve your followers, and create a motion!”
It’s not a lot to go on, nevertheless it undoubtedly gestures at an open world to discover at your leisure – and the point out of “making a motion” has me immediately hoping for an Murderer’s Creed Brotherhood-style administration side the place I can ship out skaters and taggers to take management of Tokyo.
Hopefully we’ll discover out extra quickly, as Jet Set Radio’s builders – who embrace quite a lot of the unique crew – work to offer the vastly influential sequence its first unique sport in over 20 years.
