Tonight’s PlayStation State of Play broadcast supplied our greatest look but at the upcoming Star Wars: Galactic Racer — together with the affirmation of one other character first seen in Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.
Sure, Galactic Racer will characteristic the triumphant return of Ben Quadinaros, the Boonta Eve Podrace participant who exploded on its beginning line. Someway he has survived (and remains to be racing) all the approach by to Galactic Racer’s setting post-Return of Jedi.
Since his look in The Phantom Menace, Quadinaros has solely been glimpsed occaisonally all through Star Wars canon, although later years apparently noticed him turn into a rival to fellow podrace pilot Sebulba — who additionally seems in Galactic Racer, now with a beard.
At the moment’s trailer additionally confirmed Galactic Racer’s protagonist Shade participating in a “pleasant exhibition race” on a planet coated in what seems to be yellow acid. The truth is, there is not a lot pleasant about it, as we see a number of speeders smashed up as half of the proceedings.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is being constructed by Fuse Video games, a British studio based by veterans from Burnout and Want for Velocity crew Criterion Video games — and there is undoubtedly one thing to these video games’ racing in in the present day’s footage.
The trailer additionally offers us a glimpse at Galactic Racer’s narrative content material, as Shade will get threatened throughout a scene with a fairly sad alien who suggests they’d wish to freeze you in carbonite.
Alas, there is no additional clue for now on when Star Wars: Galactic Racer will arrive, because it nonetheless is listed with a frustratingly imprecise 2026 launch date for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X/S.
For rather more, meet up with all the pieces introduced throughout Sony’s State of Play broadcast proper right here.
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