Fuse Games' Creative Team Opens Up On 'Star Wars: Galactic Racer'
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Just days after a new trailer was released for Star Wars: Galactic Racer, IGN sat down with Fuse Games’ CEO and founder Matt Webster and creative director Kieran Crimmins. The pair revealed some innovations to the racing genre with a second boost that can overheat your vehicle if you rely on it too much. Webster explained, “Boost has been in and around racing games forever. Press the button, go fast, consume the boost, and you've got a sort of tactical decision-making going on there. But we wanted to do something more. So we have a two-phase boost system. The second phase is something called a ramjet, which just goes really, really, really fast, but it's got a consequence too — it generates a load of heat, and if you run it for too long, you're going to explode.”
Webster added that the locations are characters in themselves. The team pulled locations from the Star Wars galaxy and made them work as dynamic tracks. He clarified, “So in Lantaana — a lush, tropical rainforest vibe on an active volcano island planet — we've got rivers of lava and rivers of water, hot and cold. And so you have those decisions — the environmental heat helps get my ramjet up to operating temperature, but it's obviously going to get it hotter, quicker. I can also cool the ramjet, running it for longer over the colder water.” The game will use these locations as tracks rather than an open-world format.
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In addition to these innovations, the player character Shade will also be able to explore the paddock, interact with other characters, including Sebulba, and make upgrades. Crimmins explained, “This is a Star Wars racing game, and we wanted to have a proper single-player mode in there where we could actually tell a story in this world of what this Galactic Racing league is and immerse people in the authentic Star Wars world with both familiar characters and a plethora of new characters as well. We had to have a space where you're able to do that, and we're a gameplay-first studio, so we didn't want that to be a cut-scene space.” The pair confirmed that the game is set after the events of Return of the Jedi, but there’s no specific timeline. Galactic Racer is scheduled to release in 2026.
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