Star Wars Episode 1: Racer is coming to Switch, PS4 next month

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He isn’t in this screenshot, but I’m betting everything on Sebulba.


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A remastered version of Star Wars Episode 1: Racer will hit Nintendo Switch and PS4 on May 12. It was originally released on N64 and PC as a tie-in to The Phantom Menace back in 1999, adapting the movie’s rather excellent podracing sequence — which isn’t quite as good as the climatic lightsaber battle — into a full-blown game.

It’s been spruced up for modern consoles by developer Aspyr, which also handled the recent Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy remasters. It’ll cost $15, which is a little pricey for a 20-year-old game, but you can engage in the old-school joy that is split-screen multiplayer. It also has all those cool Star Wars sound effects, 25 playable characters and tracks that span eight planets.

Jake Lloyd and Lewis MacLeod, who portrayed rascally future galactic warlord Anakin Skywalker and massive jerk Sebulba in The Phantom Menace, played those characters in the game.

“It’s a great game and it has emotional resonance,” producer James Vicari told StarWars.com. “We really believe in reuniting fans with something they cherished, or connecting a new audience with something they may have missed.”

source: cnet.com