Star Wars: Episode I - Racer
Star Wars: Episode 1 - Racer lets you participate in the famous pod race sequence that was the critical highlight of the film Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace back in 1999. Take the controls as…
Star Wars: Episode I - Racer is a racing developed by LucasArts, released 18 May 1999 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Dreamcast.
What Star Wars: Episode I - Racer is
Star Wars: Episode I - Racer is a racing game developed by LucasArts and released in 1999. It was published by Aspyr Media. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Star Wars Episode I: Racer is a 1999 racing video game developed and published by LucasArts. It is based on the podracing sequence in the film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. The game features all of the racers and race course on Tatooine from The Phantom Menace. It adds several courses, on Tatooine and various planets. The game has several single-player modes, including a tournament mode. The format of multiplayer mode varies by platform. Jake Lloyd and Lewis MacLeod, who portrayed Anakin Skywalker and Sebulba in The Phantom Menace, reprise their roles in the game.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Star Wars series
Star Wars: Episode I - Racer is the 60th of 334 entries we hold in the Star Wars series. The next entry was Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace in 1999. Its critic score of 70 is almost exactly the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Angry Birds Star Wars II at 100.
How it was received
Star Wars: Episode I - Racer holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 2 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 72, across 210 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM and 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c and 256 MB VRAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
Star Wars: Episode I - Racer launched on 18 May 1999, within three weeks of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike and Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, Super Mario Bros. Deluxe.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Star Wars: Episode I - Racer yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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