Star Wars: Racer Revenge (2002)
Star Wars: Racer Revenge is a 2002 racing video game made by Rainbow Studios and LucasArts.
Speed first, story second, and that is the point. Racer Revenge drops you into a podracer eight years after the first Naboo tournament, with Sebulba nursing a grudge against a young Anakin Skywalker. You blister down canyon tracks and lava flats, engines screaming, dodging traffic and each other. This time crashing is fatal to the run, so the racing carries real stakes: touch a wall at full throttle and the pod comes apart. It leans hard into arcade thrills, big galactic circuits, and the feel of piloting something too fast to fully control.
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What is Star Wars: Racer Revenge about?
Speed first, story second, and that is the point. Racer Revenge drops you into a podracer eight years after the first Naboo tournament, with Sebulba nursing a grudge against a young Anakin Skywalker. You blister down canyon tracks and lava flats, engines screaming, dodging traffic and each other. This time crashing is fatal to the run, so the racing carries real stakes: touch a wall at full throttle and the pod comes apart. It leans hard into arcade thrills, big galactic circuits, and the feel of piloting something too fast to fully control.
When was Star Wars: Racer Revenge released?
Star Wars: Racer Revenge was released on 12 February 2002.
Who made Star Wars: Racer Revenge?
Star Wars: Racer Revenge was made by Rainbow Studios and LucasArts.
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For the same rush from a very different starting line, Mario Kart 8 delivers the tight, item-slinging track racing that Racer Revenge trades for raw speed. And Need for Speed chases that pure velocity fix on the big screen if you want the thrill without a controller.
White-knuckle arcade racing
Racer Revenge is podracing at lethal speed, where one wall at full throttle ends your run for good. For that same arcade thrill of screaming down a track with real stakes, these racers pour on the velocity, the tight corners and the risk of everything falling apart.
Kart chaos and party racing
Sebulba versus a young Anakin, elbows out on the circuit, is racing built on personality and grudges. If the character-driven, anything-goes side of Racer Revenge appeals, these kart and party racers turn every lap into a scrappy, colorful brawl on wheels with friends.
Star Wars beyond the films
Racer Revenge spins its story out of the podracing corner of the prequels, eight years after Naboo. For more of that wider galaxy on screen, these series and films roam beyond the main saga, from droid capers to the fall of the Republic itself.