When comparing Star Wars Episode 1: Racer vs Carmageddon: Reincarnation, the Slant community recommends Carmageddon: Reincarnation for most people. In the question“What are the best PC arcade racing games?” Carmageddon: Reincarnation is ranked 8th while Star Wars Episode 1: Racer is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose Carmageddon: Reincarnation is:
It's possible to thoroughly damage and destroy each vehicle in the game. And the game highly encourages such behaviour with one of the more commonly achieved winning conditions being to destroy the competition.
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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 Great damage mechanics
It's possible to thoroughly damage and destroy each vehicle in the game. And the game highly encourages such behaviour with one of the more commonly achieved winning conditions being to destroy the competition.
Pro Public beta released
As of February 14th 2015 the public beta has been released for Carmageddon: Reincarnation. This includes all cars, levels and multiplayer, the full game.
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 In early access
The game is currently in pre-alpha development stage and as such is poorly optimized, buggy and unstable.