Somewhere between Wipeout and Mario Kart, it had a great campaign mode that let you upgrade parts for your pod racer, buying scrap from sleazy merchant Watto. Originally for the Nintendo 64 (Dreamcast, PS2 and even a superior arcade machine version - complete with full-scale racer cockpit - were eventually produced too), Star Wars Episode I: Racer turned the scene quite effortlessly into a racing title. Turns out, it didn’t make for a bad game, either. But, it’s hard to argue against how exciting the Pod Racer scene was. I’ll never forgive George Lucas for Jar Jar Binks, or for (spoiler alert!) killing off Darth Maul after having him on screen for about five minutes.
Platform: PC, N64, Dreamcast, MacOS, Arcade.While Bioware’s The Old Republic MMO would eventually arrive as a much more polished (and less exciting) online Star Wars game, it’s only been Galaxies that’s ever truly approached that sense of living and breathing in the Star Wars universe. Want to own your own home, your own plot of land? All this was promised, as well as the usual “route to being a Jedi” stuff.Įven better, it knew the magic of the universe - although this was later overturned (a change which was vocally resented by core players) initially only a handful of players would ever become Jedi, after fulfilling a gruelling set of criteria.īut many of its best ideas were eventually watered down, crushed under the weight of ambition and the juggernaut threat of World of Warcraft. Or an artist? Or a smuggler? Or a musician? Or taxi service. Want to be the Cantina bartender? Sure, you can make an in-game living that way.
Rather than being fully combat focussed, Galaxies was all about the community. The now defunct MMO went through so many revisions as to even alienate its biggest fans by the time the 2003 title shut down in 2011.īut what Galaxies had was unbounded ambition and great ideas, if not always the means to implement them. Let’s frontload this entry with a big caveat - Star Wars Galaxies was not a great game.
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