Star Wars: Galactic Racer Reviews Say It’s an All-Time Great Racing Game

Star Wars: Galactic Racer is a new arcade racing game developed by Fuse Games. According to IGN, it's the first new game of its kind in the Star Wars franchise in over two decades. The game is set in the Star Wars universe, specifically during the New Republic Era, after the fall of the Empire.

The game features a range of customisable vehicle classes, including landspeeders, speeder bikes, and skim speeders, and takes place in a series of high-stakes relays across the galaxy. TechRadar describes it as a "heart-pounding roguelike sweat-fest" with a run-based, roguelite-inspired campaign that has no mid-race restarts, adding a sense of risk and danger to the gameplay.

Reviewers have praised the game, with CNET calling it "one of my new favorite racing games" and describing it as F-Zero meets Burnout. Polygon notes that it's a lovechild of Burnout and Wipeout, two iconic racing games. The game's story is self-contained, following the player character Shade, a faceless human cargo pilot, as they compete in the unsanctioned Galactic League and seek to beat the reigning champion, Kestar Bool.

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