Star Wars: Galactic Racer speeds us back to a galaxy far, far away

We’ve had loads of Star Wars video games over time, throughout a heap of various genres, however racing video games have been few and much between. Star Wars Episode I: Racer – which appeared on a bunch of nice consoles just like the Sega Dreamcast and Nintendo 64 – was centred on the hyper-fast pod racing scene that George Lucas made a spotlight of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, and, considerably unbelievably, stays the highest-selling sci-fi racing sport of all time. Forward of Wipeout and F-Zero! It is sensible then that we might finally see a brand new sport set in a galaxy far, distant, and it’s known as Star Wars: Galactic Racer.

Set after the autumn of the Empire, the trailer exhibits quite a lot of completely different Star Wars autos racing throughout locations like Rey’s dwelling of Jakku and what seems to be just like the ice planet Hoth, with autos together with speeders and speeder bikes. There are issues that seem like Luke’s X34 Landspeeder and the long-lasting Endor Speeder Bike, however I’m certain the red-and-black car is a Sparrow from Future. That might make sense after the current Renegades growth took Star Wars into the Future universe, and Sparrows have been in the end based mostly on Star Wars’ personal autos within the first place.

On the finish of the trailer there’s a reveal for anybody who is aware of Star Wars, with the Dug, Sebulba, showing whereas stroking his beard fronds, and the long-lasting sound of a pod racer engine rumbling within the background, so it’s important to assume that pod racing is included, or at the very least among the autos. Sebulba was famously Anakin’s key rival in The Phantom Menace’s race scenes, the place the boastful alien sabotaged Anakin’s pod racer, earlier than continuing to ram all the opposite racers off the observe. Right here’s hoping you’ll have the ability to return the favour in Star Wars: Galactic Racer!

Star Wars: Galactic Racer is due for launch in 2026.