Star Wars Episode I: Racer

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Star Wars: Episode I Racer
Developer(s)	LucasArts
Publisher(s)	LucasArts, Nintendo (on Nintendo 64 version only)
Platform(s)	Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, Game Boy Color, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh
Release date(s)	May 19, 1999
Genre(s)	Racing
Mode(s)	Single player, Multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Everyone (E)

Star Wars Episode I: Racer is a racing video game based on the pod race featured in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The game features a variety of tracks spanning several different planets and includes all and more of the racers featured in the movie.

[edit] Game modes

Sebulba's Collor Pondrat's secret flamethrower, being used on the Boonta Eve Training Course. (N64 version)

The following is a list of different playing modes featured in the game:

• Tournament: The primary game mode. Race for money to buy parts or pit droids, and unlock new tracks, racers, and upgrades. You can't decide how hard the other racers are going on you.
• Free Race: Allows you to practice any previously unlocked courses using any unlocked racer. However, you cannot earn money or unlock tracks and racers. You can,however, set the difficulty of your opponents.
• Time Attack: The same as Free Race, except you race against the clock, constantly trying to improve your time. In the PC version at least this mode is absent, with the free play mode allowing the player to instead set the amount of computer opponents to 0.
• 2 Player: Race against another real player on any unlocked course. You can adjust the difficulty, number, and speed of the computer opponents.

[edit] Other versions

The arcade and Game Boy Color releases featured entirely different game play from the others. While using a vastly superior in-game graphics engine, the arcade version included just four tracks (unique from the PC/Mac/Dreamcast/N64 tracks) and used separate control sticks for each pod engine as standard. The arcade version featured a full-sized cockpit for the player to sit in while playing. As a colorized version of the original 8-bit Game Boy hardware, the Game Boy Color system was technically incapable of rendering the high speed 3D graphics used in the other versions, so the Game Boy Color release was instead based on abbreviated tracks using an overhead 2D view.

[edit] See also

• Star Wars: Racer Revenge

[edit] Reception

• In March, 2004, GMR Magazine rated Episode I Racer, the fifth best Star Wars game of all time.

[edit] External links

• Star Wars: Episode I Racer at MobyGames