Star Wars: Galactic Racer Review - Sci-Fi Royalty Gets the Burnout Treatment, and the Result Is Absolute Racing Paradise
Players race as Shade through roguelike tours, building vehicles and perks before challenging champion Kestar Bool in the underground Galactic League.
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Star Wars: Galactic Racer review - sci-fi royalty gets the Burnout treatment, and the result is absolute racing paradise
A few years ago, I had the chance to ask Alex Ward, the co-founder of Criterion Games, about the driving model for the Burnout series. I had heard from a friend that beneath the arcadey immediacy lay physics of rare nuance and beauty. I was reverent in my questioning, even if I was slightly clueless - is it a driving model or a handling model or a physics model? - and Ward, thankfully, was having none of it. He told me that in the very early Bur…
From the Star Wars universe, this third racing game doesn't just defy the sensation of speed and its magnificent landscapes: you quickly get caught up in the championship game, where failure is the only way to progress.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is my childhood podracing dream come true
The podracing scene in The Phantom Menace is one of my favorite movie sequences ever. It's just so dang cool: The futuristic racers tear over treacherous Tatooine terrain while various Star Wars aliens bark at each other in incomprehensible sci-fi languages. Eventually a young Anakin Skywalker proves his mettle by clawing his way from the […]
Last lap – that's not possible! Kestar Bool pushes my speeder bike with so much emphasis on the rocks that I have to repair a system damage. Until then the afterburner shuts down and my bike glides only at snail speed over Jakku. Two or three competitors race past me while I start the repair and then wait for the right moment... Now! More
When you're a Star Wars fan, right now it's the control in hand that the Force is with the license. After an XCOM-like of a beautiful outfit, here comes Star Wars Galactic Racer and his pod races that will make the engines of our little heart vibrate.
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