Customize your own turbo-charged machine and prepare to rip through futuristic environments, subterranean tunnels, abandoned canyons, and surreal post-nuclear landscapes. Link up to eight simultaneous players, just to make things more intense. But be warned: miss a hairpin turn, spin out at 180 mile. Play Santa Pod Racer game on BGames.com. Start your engines and get ready for a wild drag racing! Race against the worlds best and become the king of racing!
This is a trailer for and some gameplay footage of a fan-made remake of the 1999 Star Wars Episode 1: Racer game for the Nintendo 64 (and Sega Dreamcast and PC and arcade) built using Unreal Engine 4. Admittedly, it looks a lot better than I remember the original looking on the N64, which is saying a lot because I felt like. Relive all the thrill and excitement of the Podracer sequence from Star Wars: Episode I. Hang on tight - with afterburners on, Podracers max out at a simulated 600 mph! Race in furious competition against 21+ opponents. Take on over 21 tracks on 8 unique worlds! Avoid hazards such as methane lakes, meteor showers and Tusken Raiders.
| POD | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Ubi Soft |
| Publisher(s) | Ubi Soft |
| Director(s) | Fabrice Valay |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Release |
(POD Gold)[1] |
| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
POD: Planet of Death (titled simply POD in North America) is a futuristic racing video game for Microsoft Windows released by Ubi Soft in 1997. The game is set in the distant future on the planet Io. A mining accident unleashes a fungus[2] from within the planet on its inhabitants, causing widespread panic. After most of the population escapes the planet, a few survivors remain on Io, with only one ship remaining. The survivors soup up cars which they race in tournaments, the winner of the final tournament taking the last ship and escaping to safety, leaving the others to die. The music was produced by Daniel Masson.[3]
History[edit]
Influences on POD included Super Mario Kart and Ridge Racer.[4]
POD was published in 1997. It was one of the first games to support the MMX instruction set[4] and came bundled as an OEM version with computers using Intel Pentium or Pentium II MMX processors, and some AMD K6 systems. The OEM 1.0 version did not support 3dfx cards or a network mode. A retail version of POD (called POD 2.0 by Ubisoft) was later released and featured more circuits and cars, plus support for 3dfx video cards and network play. A special multiplayer program called 'Game Service' was provided by Ubisoft for POD players so that they could race on Ubisoft servers. POD was among the first games optimized for video cards with a 3dfx chipset using the Glide API. Only video cards with the 3dfx Voodoo 1 chipset were supported upon the game's release. Ubisoft later published patches which added support for the Voodoo 2 using the Glide API and non-3dfx chipsets via Direct3D. Less than a year after publishing POD, Ubisoft issued an expansion pack under the title Back to Hell (also known as Extended Time in France) in late 1997. This pack contained 19 circuits and 15 new vehicles including motorcycles, a floating purple batlike creature, and a witch riding a broom. Another version called POD: Gold was later released, which included POD, its expansion, plus a new sound set.[1]
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A port of POD for the Nintendo 64 was announced,[5] but never released.
In the winter of 2000, Ubisoft released the game's successor, POD 2 (also known as POD 2: Multiplayer Online and POD: Speedzone), for the Sega Dreamcast console. It is another futuristic racing game, but players are able to attack their opponents. Each player is a miner on the colony of Damethra, and an alien virus has taken over the cars on the colony, creating mutant cars. It was one of the first games playable on SegaNet, and one of the few games to support the Dreamcast Broadband Adaptor. The game features eight vehicles to use on five tracks. Bonus cars and tracks could be unlocked if the game was played online and the user had a Game Service account, but due to the shutdown of SegaNet these are now inaccessible. While Bart was considered to be the best player in the world, Luospeed a Mestrão player claim to reach the top 10 in 1999, the same year he beat Silver surfer, a NES classic.
On October 6, 2011, POD was re-released by GOG.com, with added compatibility with modern operating systems.[6]
Reception[edit]
Next Generation rated it three stars out of five, and stated that 'Pod is a fantastic ride, with high-color graphics at high resolution and a steady, high frame rate. It could very well be the prettiest racing game you can buy right now.'[7]
References[edit]
- ^ ab'Game entry'. GiantBomb.com. GiantBomb. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
- ^https://web.archive.org/web/20040306162016/http://pod.ubi.com/ENGLISH/preview/story/index.html
- ^'Pod Planet Of Death'. soundcloud.com.
- ^ ab'NG Alphas: POD'. Next Generation. No. 23. Imagine Media. November 1996. pp. 185–6.
- ^'In Development'. Next Generation. No. 29. Imagine Media. May 1997. p. 57.
- ^'New release: POD Gold'. GOG.com. CD Projekt. October 6, 2011. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- ^'Finals'. Next Generation. No. 31. Imagine Media. July 1997. p. 168, 170.
External links[edit]
- POD at MobyGames
- Holger's POD Info - Page with info and installation tips for Windows XP
- PODPhreaks, a useful website about the game. It contains a lot of downloads.
- nelsonspbr's POD, with information, videos, tips and tricks about the game.
- Playing POD Gold on Windows 10 (2018), a guide on how to fix POD Gold issues (GOG/CD version) on Windows 10, and how to add new cars/tracks.
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- Star Wars: Episode I - Racer
Pod Racer Game
Star Wars: Episode I - Racer
Windows - 1999
Also released on: Mac
Description of Star Wars: Episode I - Racer
It's been said that Star Wars Episode I – The Phantom Menace gave us two good things: Duel of the Fates and the Star Wars Episode I: Racer. Your mileage may vary, of course, but if you enjoy Star Wars and/or racing games, SWEIR has a lot to offer.
There are a multitude of different pod races, each with different specs, looks and feels, and weird aliens to pilot them (unless you choose the game's Mario, Anakin). The courses offer a wide variety of styles, from the recklessly fast circuits to those that offer twists, winds, and hairpin turns, and demand a more precise style of racing. On top of that, the environments are vividly colorful and gorgeous to look at—you might even want to sacrifice a race or two just to explore every nook and cranny of these race tracks.
Perhaps what SWEIR does best is capture the feel of the dangerously fast speeds of pod-racing. The scale is just right, and the blurring kicks in at just the right time, and it evokes that same feeling as watching the scenes from the movie—you're going fast! Maybe too fast... and one wrong move will have you into the wall at hundreds of miles per hour. It's an intense game and well worth checking out for fans of racers, even if you didn't like the Phantom Menace.
Review By P. Alexander
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Comments and reviews
Note2018-09-10-1 point
why cant i see the graphic ?
ISO + x64 fix on win 10
Diego2018-07-310 point Windows version
Ótimo! Pegando perfeito no meu pc
SCR2018-06-240 point
Anyone knows how to fix ndroid_gnome release problem ?
Sparky2018-05-300 point
Brilliant. Got it running in Win 10 no problem. Downloaded the ISO and x64 fix. Installed from burned ISO via fix. Only problem, on first try message saying 'create dxgifactory2 could not be found. solution was to rename the dxgi.dll file in the game folder to d3d11.dll. Problem solved, game runs great.
Daz Favor2018-05-030 point Windows version
Won't work on 64bit OS
Luck SkayWaker2018-04-280 point Windows version
I luv It
THE DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE2018-04-173 points Windows version
I AM DARKSIDE.
I DOWNLOADED THE RIP VERSION OF THIS MAGNIFICENT GAME.
HOWEVER STARTING IT UP , THE VISUALS ARE COMPLETELY CORRUPTED IT SEEMS.
PARTIALLY BLACK, GREEN WITH SOME OF THE GAME COMING THROUGH .
HOW MIGHT I FIX THIS ?
IN THE NAME OF THE DARKSIDE OF THE FORCE.
ANSWER ME AS YOU WOULD YOUR LORD ! FOR I AM A SITH THAT LOVES POD RACING...
hissaelon2018-01-12-2 points Windows version
it can't find my sound card it says in the audio menu... and of course also no sound. Any way to fix this? Should I change a file or anything?
whtvr2017-12-23-5 points Windows version
The RIP version isn't missing anything, is it?
pablo2017-12-201 point Windows version
there is no sound and the menu in choosing racers is black. Do I need the CD?
Guymeleth2017-12-031 point Windows version
Excellent!!! Thanks you!
I got the bug with the camera staying in front of me but with TAB it's ok
pancake2017-10-210 point
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH
Sebulba2017-07-067 points
IT'S A NEW LAP RECORRRD!
Pod Racer Game Download
Soap2017-02-05-4 points
Do you need the disk to play?
Ike2016-09-102 points
'Dying slows you down' has become a staple saying in my household thanks to fond memories of this classic
Maik2015-09-172 points
I turn it into .dmg, open it, click installer and it says that it cant open the file becouse its broken or incomplete....
help?
ThatUnproGamer2015-03-317 points Mac version
I really want to play this game, but it doesn't work on OS X. A fix would be very appreciated.
Daevrojn2014-12-030 point Mac version
I downloaded this and even got Sheepshaver to work perfectly with OS9, but the file for Racer is just not able to run. I keep coming up against errors and warnings and nothing will run. I downloaded stuffit and Disc Copy and it still won't go. Would love some help.
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- Year:2000
- Publisher:LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC
- Developer:LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC
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