Shacknews | Story, Podracing, and What Comes After Launch
Matt Webster and I sat down with Shacknews’ Greg Burke at Summer Game Fest for a longer conversation about the story, how podracing fits into it, and the fact that there is more coming after launch.
The question I get most is how podracing works in a story set decades after Episode I, and this is the honest answer: “The most significant challenge we had to overcome was how do we incorporate podracing into this story when not everyone in the galaxy can control a podracer. We’re not spoiling our story, but we’ve found a really great way to incorporate podracing into our main story. We’re not going to betray anything that came before. Episode I is about Anakin Skywalker winning a podrace. We don’t want any human character coming in and winning podraces.”
That is the canon test in one paragraph. Does the choice serve the IP or undermine it? Everything in this game had to pass it.
