![]() However, you can't win money a second time by replaying races, so if you find yourself lagging behind it's best to restart than to place in a low-winning position. One somewhat troublesome system is the way the prizes actually work you can wager the outcome of each race based on your performance – for example, winner takes all, or a prize pool goes to the first four racers. These parts are also part-exchanged when you buy new ones, so there's an economy to fixing up broken components for resale, adding depth to the game – though it's pretty easy to exploit and quickly ramp up your abilities, simply by exiting and re-entering the menu with different characters until you find the part you need for a price you can afford. You can also buy busted parts from the junkyard at a discount, using your Pit Droids mid-race to repair them back to working order. Sadly, the controls are only available in these two configurations and not remappable (besides at the system level, of course).īetween tournament races, you can spend your winnings in cheerful stereotype Watto's little store to buy parts for your racer, from thrust coils to air brakes and everything in-between, allowing you to improve your stats. Over-acceleration, though, will overheat and damage your pod racer, so you'll need to hit the R button to repair it where necessary. This is awkward, but completely necessary to win all but the first few races. ![]() STAR WARS EPISODE I RACER PRICE FULLTo go at full speed you need to tilt the left stick forwards until a bar on the right of the HUD is filled, then hit the A button. There are two flavours of control a modernised scheme utilising the ZR button to accelerate, and an old-school one that'll be much like you remember the game from the N64, but with the analogue stick in a slightly more sensible place. While we're on the topic of it being evocative of classic Nintendo franchises, there's even a tiny bit of Star Fox in the way you can rotate your craft to fit through narrow gaps.Ĭaptured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) There's a little flavour of F-Zero about the proceedings, though nowhere near the level of challenge you'd get from Captain Falcon and crew. It's speedy, it's exhilarating, it's very Star Wars. And those races are gloriously arcadey, with wide courses full of obstacles, shortcuts and elevated alternate routes. Literally, with the astonishing John Williams score pounding through every race. This is pretty much the definitive way to race pods, with pin-sharp graphics compared to what you'll remember – although the textures are still as blurry as they were all those years ago. ![]() ![]() The major difference in Star Wars Episode I: Racer on Switch is that the game runs at an unbroken 60fps, meaning that the already smooth gameplay is even smoother. ![]() A long time ago in, erm, this galaxy, a game called Star Wars Episode I: Racer was a smash hit, leading to dozens of enthusiastic magazine reviews with the byline "now this is podracing!" Unfortunately, the intervening years have been unkind to the Star Wars prequels, but does that hindsight extend to this thoroughly literally-named racing tie-in? Thankfully, not quite.īack in the N64 days, Episode 1: Racer was a clean, simple experience, largely elevated by its sense of speed. ![]()
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