When comparing Star Wars Episode 1: Racer vs Need for Speed Most Wanted, the Slant community recommends Need for Speed Most Wanted for most people. In the question“What are the best PC arcade racing games?” Need for Speed Most Wanted is ranked 6th while Star Wars Episode 1: Racer is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose Need for Speed Most Wanted is:
The game has beautiful graphics and stunning visuals including reflections and light effects.
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Pros
Pro Economy management adds another variable to the game
Choosing what parts of the pod to upgrade at what points in the game, what help to hire and what vendor to choose for parts adds a rather interesting management element in-between races that affects races themselves. And depending on how the race went some money can be saved that would otherwise be spent on repairs.
Pro Faithful to the Star Wars universe
It's faithful and atmospheric.
Pro Play requires balance
While racing ones Pod Racer can get damaged (and often will), this means that the player needs to perform repairs while racing, but of course this slows one down, which means one needs to balance slowing down in a race and risking blowing their pod up by receiving too much damage.
Pro Stunning graphics
The game has beautiful graphics and stunning visuals including reflections and light effects.
Pro Action filled experience
Police car chases, takedowns, roadblocks etc are much more fluid and adrenaline packed compared to many racing games on mobile.
Cons
Con Aged visuals
While impressive at the time of release in 1999, the game does not look too good by today's standards.
Con Crashes on some devices
There have been several complaints from several reviewers on Google Play saying that the game doesn't work on their devices after the last upgrade. These devices include: Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7, Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4
Con The game provides no challenge
The game doesn't appear to be challenging to a lot of players due to the wide highways, minimal traffic and the elementary curves
Con Includes in-app purchases
Players are confronted with IAPs in the game for which they already payed $5.57.