
My gripes aside, you can't argue with the visual and aural beauty of Racer. I would recommend playing this one on a Nintendo 64 if you can. It may run better on a higher-end system, but who's going to upgrade just to play a game? Of all the games I've played on my PC, this one handles the worst (even Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D wasn't this bad). (For the record, I had 32 MB of RAM when 64 is considered optimal, but I was up to par in every other area of the specs.) It's not nearly as smooth as it should be, which makes it frustrating when you're trying to react to an obstacle directly in your path. The game also handles sluggishly, even when you try to play with the bare minimum of visuals to keep system overload down. With those two engines out front and the Pod in the back, it's not the same as driving something all in one piece, the way I prefer my racing games. Second, the very nature of the Pods makes handling them different from anything you've ever driven in a game. First, there's no way you can really simulate going 450 miles per hour in a videogame none of us will ever drive a vehicle which can go that fast, and even if the game could actually give us the same experience which Anakin felt in the film, how could any of us be successful at it? I can't imagine there are too many gamers out there who could handle such a quickly moving vehicle the fastest most of us have jetted around a raceway ranges between 150 and 200 miles per hour while playing games with stock or Indy cars. There's just something about those Pods that I don't like. Of course, this isn't a game which I've really enjoyed on either platform, so it might just be me. Vehicle sound effects and epic soundtrack taken directly from Episode I.Star Wars: Episode I: Racer for Windows is essentially a straight port of the Nintendo 64 version, and I'd have to say it doesn't handle nearly as well as its home videogame system cousin.Avoid hazards such as methane lakes, meteor showers and Tusken Raiders.Take on over 21 tracks on 8 unique worlds!.Race in furious competition against 21+ opponents.


Climb on, strap in, and experience the pure adrenaline-pumping excitement of the Podracing sequence from Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace.
