Late final 12 months, Fuse Video games debuted the primary take a look at its debut title, Star Wars: Galactic Racer. The Fuse staff consists of veterans who’ve labored on Want for Velocity, Burnout, and Star Wars Battlefront. That have has taught them that the brand new Star Wars racer needed to be greater than only a non secular successor to Star Wars Episode I: Racer.
“Each time we have made a recreation, we have tried to innovate,” Fuse Video games founder and CEO Matt Webster informed The Game Business. “For those who type of zoom out a bit, it is a style that is crying out for some contemporary new concepts, and to steal from another genres as nicely.”
One of many ways in which Galactic Racer will differ from the earlier Star Wars racing video games is that the races are solely a part of the expertise. Galactic Racer may also permit gamers to spend time outdoors of their autos and discover the tales going down round them.
“Once we’re a racing recreation, significantly one which we really feel is ripe for a bunch of innovation, ‘the place can we wish to innovate?,'” added Webster. “It is a Star Wars racing recreation, so Star Wars followers crave immersion in that galaxy. They crave a narrative to be informed, and characters to fall in love with. And delightful areas that we all know and love. That may be a actually fertile floor for us after we take into consideration the second-to-second expertise, however then extra broadly within the sphere of Star Wars storytelling.”
Webster praised Fuse’s collaborators at Lucasfilm, and famous that they helped within the creation of a brand new automobile, the Skim Speeder, which is able to debut within the recreation.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer will hit Xbox Sequence X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC later this 12 months. Among the different Star Wars video games in improvement will take longer to reach. The just lately introduced RPG Star Wars: Destiny of the Previous Republic is probably going years away, though the developer has assured followers it will not take till 2030. The present standing of Star Wars: Eclipse and the remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Previous Republic is unknown.