Star Wars: Galactic Racer Includes 'A Good Mix of Familiar Faces and New Characters,' Developer Says, Following Sebulba and Ben Quadinaros Reveals

Star Wars: Galactic Racer developer Fuse Games has said its racing escapade volition diagnostic a "good mix" of caller faces and classical characters from a postulation far, acold away, pursuing the uncover of Phantom Menace returnee Ben Quadinaros.

Speaking to IGN arsenic portion of a wide-ranging interrogation connected Star Wars: Galactic Racer's track-based design, communicative mode and innovative boost gameplay, originative manager Kieran Crimmins teased that fans volition beryllium capable to look guardant to much characters from erstwhile Star Wars movies and games joining the fray.

"There's going to beryllium a bully premix of acquainted faces and caller characters," Crimmins said. "Obviously we privation to get that premix right, truthful nary substance what benignant of Star Wars media you've engaged with, whether it beryllium a movie oregon game, there's a clump of familiarity successful determination erstwhile it comes to the space. Otherwise it wouldn't consciousness similar an authentic Star Wars experience.

"So there's some acquainted faces and caller characters," Crimmins continued, acknowledging Sebulba and Quadinaros. "We can't speech astir who precisely they are conscionable yet though, sorry."

Who other mightiness appear? While little good known, it's imaginable that different participants seen successful Episode 1's podrace mightiness appear, alongside Sebulba and Quadinaros. The Boonta Eve Classic had 18 participants, though mediocre Ratts Tyerell died during the race, portion Anakin Skywalker... well, we each cognize what happened to him.

"We've seen racing arsenic an enactment and arsenic a athletics successful Star Wars has been astir successful galore forms, right?" Fuse Games laminitis and CEO Matt Webster said astatine different point, going connected to perchance hint astatine racers from different parts of Star Wars being included. "Episode 1's podracing we each cognize and love, Bad Batch's riot racing successful Season 2 was conscionable awesome. Star Wars Resistance has got the Aces and low-altitude starfighter racing."

Galactic Racer is acceptable sometime aft Return of the Jedi, truthful anyone could perchance enactment successful an appearance. It seems improbable we'll spot Luke Skywalker, who was rather engaged doing different things during this period, but who knows? He definite knows however to contention a speeder motorcycle crossed Endor.

Last week brought our champion look yet astatine Star Wars: Galactic Racer, though we delve overmuch deeper into its clever two-tier boost system, biology effects, and however the crippled volition fto you nuture rivalries and interact with characters connected ft successful our large Star Wars: Galactic Racer interrogation that you tin spell work close now.

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