Star Wars: Galactic Racer sounds like a Midi-chlorian-heavy MotorStorm, something I didn't know I craved

All right, I've decidedly got a weakness for Star Wars games which displacement the camera distant from each the glowy sword fights and abstraction politics, alternatively zooming successful connected galactic ne'er-do-wells getting up to mischief. I blasted my dad's influence. Star Wars Outlaws stuck that chord for me, and Star Wars: Galactic Racer looks similar it'll harvester akin entreaty with the trump paper of chaotic off-road racing.

Announced during past night's Geoffs, Galactic Racer's a speeder speedfest from Fuse Games - a caller workplace led by ex-Criterion devs with Burnout and Need For Speedy flavour to their CVs. Though, watching its trailer and speechmaking done an interrogation Fuse co-founder Matt Webster and Lucasfilm Games vice president Douglas Reilly person fixed to the authoritative Star Wars website, my brain's been taken to a antithetic racing place.

The trailer shows disconnected packs of landspeeders and speederbikes swooping and slamming arsenic they hover done trails that upwind done the likes of a vessel graveyard connected godforsaken satellite Jakku and the snowy wilds of Ando Prime. It's evidently leaning into the podracing vibes we've seen videogamed successful Star Wars Episode I: Racer, adjacent starring Phantom Menace speedster Sebulba, but successful practice, the enactment sounds similar Evolution Studios' aged PlayStation mud-fests.

"We’ve drawn existent inspiration from runs-based games truthful the subordinate volition person meaningful, consequential decisions to beryllium making connected however they chose their way to go an elite racing aviator — from the conveyance they take to commencement with, the upgrade choices they marque to make a physique that truly suits their playstyle and what events they prime successful determining their way to go champion of the League," Webster said successful the interview. "Along the mode you’ll vie with rivals, travel to caller planets, and maestro antithetic classes of repulsor trade — oregon speeders — each with their ain chiseled capabilities.

"We person a scope of racing repulsorcraft for players to observe successful the game, each of which person unsocial handling characteristics to master. Speederbikes, for example, are accelerated and ferocious, you’ll beryllium braking heavy into corners, truly leaning successful and past monolithic drops of acceleration arsenic you powerfulness your mode done the exit. Also announcement that successful galore of our events, our antithetic speeder classes contention astatine the aforesaid time, with breathtaking carnal interactions arsenic those differing racing lines travel together."

Given the off-roady courses, that past spot astir routes aimed astatine the antithetic strengths of antithetic trade diverging and coming backmost unneurotic is the facet that's enactment my caput backmost successful Monument Valley. Obviously, it's not similar Galactic Racer's floaty rides volition beryllium getting stuck successful the mud oregon splattering done it with chunky tyres, but cutting done constrictive chasms successful your nimble skim speeder to debar being side-swiped by a bulkier landspeeder connected a much unfastened way decidedly is.

All successful all, the imaginable of battling done the underground racing country arsenic Shade - "a lone racer with a imagination of glory and revenge" - has decidedly got my motor moving astatine this point.

If the aforesaid applies to you, Star Wars: Galactic Racer's wishlistable connected Steam.