What was the first thing you wanted after seeing Episode 1? A double sided light sabre. OK the second thing? Race in a pod. Probably not but they were pretty cool, and soon you will be able to. Well almost.

Star Wars Episode 1: Racer is coming out at the fall of this year and it looks amazing. Race along at 600 MPH in Tatooine, play as the characters from the movie (yep they're all there including Anakin). WipEout style action with the class of LucasArts. And it's not all hype, after playing the N64 version I was ver impressed, it handles great, AND guess what? The course you see in the movie is there. Race along the sand then go through that canyon bit smashing the other competitors into the side. Top stuff! You've also got a lot of freedom, glorious open desert, but don't go to off course or you'll soon loose sight of the other competitors. A bit I remember that I thought was vey cool was when I was fighting for a place (I won't say what place it was) and this other Pod smashed into the side of bit. I went flying over this bank, but as I was turning when doing so I took the corner and landed in front of him. Wow! The graphics are top notch to no pop up in sight at all and that was on the measly N64 version. Imagine it on a G3 Mac with a Rage 128 graphics card!

But why bring out Pod Racer when the OB1 game would probably be more popular. Well dear old LucasArts, thought that we didn't have many racing games (which is very true)so they gave us Racer instead. Also the OB1 game is a deffinet maybe to coming out as well. Oh it's good to have LucasArts back with the Mac.