One of my favorite games when I got my Nintendo 64 was Star Wars Racer. It was one of those offshoot games that came out of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. Since it was similar to Mario Kart it was easy to get my non-gaming friends to play. Of course, I grabbed the Nintendo GameCube strictly for Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. Moving ahead some twenty years, we have a new Star Wars game dropping. Star Wars: Galactic Racer is bringing back Star Wars racing games.
During PlayStation State of Play presentation, they dropped the trailer for the game. As far as games look, the graphics are a step up from its twenty year-old predecessor. It definitely looks a little silly, but it is directed at kids. Like the original game was.
The “fan base” will shit on it. Since they have grown up and the franchise hasn’t. Which really gets to the heart of the toxicity of its adult fanbase. While we all thought it was cool when we were kids, it is for kids. Check out the trailer and see for yourself.
Get Under the Hood of Star Wars: Galactic Racer
While it is coming out for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox, it will be available for PC. The complete specs for the game are not available, neither is the release date.TechSpot did some digging and found out some infoin the Valve FAQ section.
The minimum requirements are an AMD Ryzen 5 2600/Intel Core i5-8400/Intel i3 10th-gen, combined with an AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6GB/Nvidia RTX 2060/ Intel Arc A380 and 12GB of RAM. Users also need at least 50GB of SSD space and Windows 11. Fuse Games claims that it will work on a large number of systems.
For the recommended specs, the CPU must be at least an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X/Intel Core i7-10700, while the GPU is at least an AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT/Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti/Intel Arc B580. Memory requirements increase to 16GB. And, if you’re like me, don’t like playing online, there is an offline mode.