Star Wars: Galactic Racer gameplay trailer revealed alongside PC system requirements

[midian182]

Highly anticipated: Star Wars: Galactic Racer, the latest title influenced by one of the best parts of the prequel movies – podracing – has a new gameplay trailer, and it looks pretty impressive. We also know what it will take to run the game.

Set during the New Republic Era after the events of Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: Galactic Racer looks like it could finally satisfy demand for a modern WipeOut-style racer.

The latest gameplay clip, unveiled at Sony's State of Play presentation, has gained plenty of interest. The gorgeous and varied environments of Sentinel One, Jakku, Ando Prime, and Lantaana look lush as vehicles skim over the surface at blistering speeds. And it's not just podracers – there are also landspeeders, speeder bikes, and skimspeeders.

While not yet on the main Steam page, an FAQ section on Valve's platform has revealed Galactic Racer's minimum and recommended PC specs. UK studio Fuse Games has ensured that the game will work on a fairly large number of systems.

The minimum requirements are an AMD Ryzen 5 2600/Intel Core i5-8400/Intel i3 10th-gen, combined with an AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6GB/Nvidia RTX 2060/ Intel Arc A380 and 12GB of RAM. Users also need at least 50GB of SSD space and Windows 11.

For the recommended specs, the CPU must be at least an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X/Intel Core i7-10700, while the GPU is at least an AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT/Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti/Intel Arc B580. Memory requirements increase to 16GB.

The less-demanding specs mean that Galactic Racer will be "great" on the Steam Deck, delivering a "30 frames per second high-fidelity racing experience."

Galactic Racer will have both an offline single-player campaign and support for up to 12 players racing online in two game modes.

Podracing-influenced games began in 1999 with Star Wars: Episode I: Racer. It was great at the time, and turned out to be one of the best-selling N64 games ever. There was also Star Wars: Racer Revenge in 2002, which wasn't as good. Hopefully, the two decade wait for a new Star Wars podracing racing game will have been worth it.

Star Wars: Galactic Racer is launching in 2026.

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Star Wars: Galactic Racer gameplay trailer revealed alongside PC system requirements

 

[bviktor]

NGL it looks pretty decent. Fingers crossed.

- a fan of the old SW Ep 1 Racer game

 

[amstech]

Star Wars Episode 1 Racer was a surprisingly good racing game. I had it on N64 as a kid and it was solid. I plan to check this new Galactic racer.

 

[guillejp]

Finally after 25 years, a sequel to Star Wars Racer, such a cool game!

 

[RudyBob]

Star Wars Episode 1 Racer is a good game. I played until the green swamp then....It was more than my meager skills allowed so I have been stuck there for 20 years. Also, the upgrading was clunky and the controls? I needed more fingers. Had lots of fun with it and my Grandsons love it and were better at it in 10 minutes than I was in 10 hours. Happy for a sequel

 

[Anton Longshot]

Oops Win 11 so I'm out as I run 10 and won't go 11.
I suppose I had that coming eventually...a bit sad that this is a game I might have liked The world keeps turning though and with a bit of luck I'll be on MacOS sometime soon.
I'll keep the Windows box for a while for playing games my box can handle.
It seems likely that at some point different solutions and/or opportunities will present themselves.

 

[amghwk]

The sense of speed in Episode I : Racer was mindblowingly thrilling! I was immediately attached to it.

 

[Starfals]

This needs the epic music of the first game. I wont lie, that music and sound effects were 50% of the reason why I even enjoyed it as much.

 

[Theinsanegamer]

Watching what gameplay they showed, it seems to move kinda....slow for a speeder racing game. Graphics are pretty but given the horrid reputation the brand has acquired over the years I won't get my hopes up.

 

[Melkor Unlimited]

Oops Win 11 so I'm out as I run 10 and won't go 11.

Win 10 is officially EOL. Only supported Win now is 11.
It may or may not work under Win 10.