Don’t fear, podracing followers. Whereas Star Wars: Galactic Racer’s debut trailer didn’t characteristic any podracers, the enduring fast-moving house chariots will probably be part of the complete sport.
Introduced final yr on the Sport Awards, Star Wars: Galactic Racer is an upcoming racing sport set in that galaxy far, distant. Galactic Racer is being developed by some former Burnout devs at Fuse Video games, a brand new studio created in 2023. The sport appears to be like superior and options Sebulba on the very finish of its teaser trailer. Nonetheless, there was not a single podracing automobile to be seen in that first teaser, which had followers like me frightened that we wouldn’t get to recreate one of the best a part of 1999’s The Phantom Menace, aka the podracing scene. Fortunately, there’ll certainly be podracers in Galactic Racer.
In a current interview with Gamesradar, Fuse Video games CEO and co-founder Matt Webster informed the outlet that sure, in fact podracing will probably be part of the studio’s Star Wars racing sport.
“You possibly can’t actually make a Star Wars racing expertise and never have podracing, are you able to?” mentioned Webster. “The core fantasy of the sport is changing into an elite racing pilot within the Galactic League, and podracing is a pinnacle of velocity and racing within the Star Wars galaxy.”
“Nonetheless, once we got down to create Galactic Racer, we wished to do extra – to lean into a number of automobile varieties and a number of expressions of velocity to offer gamers a breadth of experiences. Galactic Racer provides gamers the power to pilot automobiles they know and love, alongside ones they received’t have skilled earlier than, throughout a spread of solo and multiplayer modes.”
Extra excellent news: Galactic Racer will characteristic the choice to drive round in first-person, which is my most popular method to play podracing video games. Now, I simply want Webster or another person at Fuse Video games to substantiate the Boonta Eve Basic race course featured in previous podracing video games, like Star Wars Racer’s Revenge, will probably be playable in Galactic Racer, and I’ll be a cheerful wookkiee when the sport arrives on consoles and PC later this yr.
