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The Best Star Wars Game of the Year is Now on Amazon Prime

Amazon Prime members can play the campaign of Star Wars: Galactic Racer on Amazon Luna starting today.

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The Best Star Wars Game of the Year is Now on Amazon Prime

In Star Wars: Galactic Racer, becoming a boost junkie is an inevitable experience in arcade racers that offer such powerful bursts of speed. The game presents players with two primary types of boost: afterburner and ramjet. Afterburner, the less potent option, can be deployed at any time once it has been built up. On the other hand, ramjet is more powerful but must be deployed in a continuous chain without taking your finger off the button, overheating, or running into any obstacles that force you back to regular speed.

Both boost types are separately upgradeable as players progress through a rogue-lite style run of Galactic League tournament events across various planetary biomes.

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