Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator, featuring "a large area of Barcelona", has been announced for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC:
Taxi Life is a city driving simulator based in the city of Barcelona
Venture into Barcelona’s buzzing streets as a driver to deliver passengers, cargo, and more. Complete time-based jobs, evade traffic jams, and road hazards, all while respecting the rules of the road. Discover famous city landmarks while building your transportation empire!
Title: Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator
Type: Driving Simulator
Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series S|X
Early Access Release: 2023
Price: TBD
Description:
The most important aspect of Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator is learning and adapting to the hectic environment around you. You arrive in Barcelona with only a car and a dream to your name. As you go out and learn the streets, you quickly realize that each delivery task can bring on a variety of challenges. Managing impatient passengers, rush couriering, traffic jams, road accidents, stormy days, and city events are all part of the experience in Taxi Life.
Travel through the streets of a realistic Barcelona on a 1:1 scale picking up jobs and taking part in different scenarios. You can also grow and even start managing your own transportation company! Make sure you’re following the rules of the road, and keeping your customers happy to get the most out of every trip.
Open World
A 1:1 authentic recreation of the famous city of Barcelona, the second-largest city in Spain after Madrid. Experience Taxi Life in an open-world environment, where the player takes charge of his or her destiny. Experience the day-to-day hustle and bustle: pedestrians, traffic, and unexpected events.
Rules Of The Road
Realistic traffic rules with sophisticated AI systems making cars, mimic real world behaviors. In Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator, the AI cars will behave just like they do in the real world. Switching lanes, cutting players off or even just making the wrong turn. It’s up to the player to decide on how to handle these situations to get to their destination in a timely fashion.
Car Custimization
You’ll be able to move around the city in style with several different models of vehicles. Deep customization and management tools to choose the looks of your character, brand, cabin and vehicle performance. Look cool, even while taking grandma to see the kids!
Various Tasks
Over 200 of Barcelona’s most famous landmarks, historical buildings, parks, and sculptures. Take a ride around the city to enjoy the landscape in “free ride” mode, or give people a city tour visiting the different types of attractions and architecture.
Dynamic Weather
Dynamic weather which has an influence on the driving conditions. When it rains, adjust your braking distance to avoid a collision or turn on the AC on a sunny day to cater to your passengers request.
Vehicle Maintenance
Driving model which requires to control fuel and endurance level of the car with real influence on the driving experience. You know what they say, a happy car means happy customers!
Out February 2024. Would have been ideal for VR support.
Rape, murder, back-seat-bangers, drive-bys and high speed police chases not included. So a bit gooseberry fool really. But could be weirdly engaging, like many of these sim games seem to be. Frame rate looks a bit iffy in the trailer, but the graphics look alright actually. Nice to have a new location for a change too.
