‘Fast And Furious: Showdown’ Was A Flop, And Nobody Is Surprised

Fast and Furious: Showdown is a terrible game, and we all saw it coming.

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of video games based on movies? If you said they suck, you already know how this review roundup is going to go. Like that console that saw its reveal on May 21, it’s just a disappointment.

Fast and Furious: Showdown is a video game based on the whole movie series, and the production time was extremely fast. That alone should tell you this game was a rush job meant to cash in on the blockbuster Vin Diesel film Fast and Furious 6. Very few games made as tie-ins to blockbuster films are ever worth playing even once. It’s a law, like physics.

That said, here’s what the critics had to say about Fast and Furious: Showdown, in case you want more educated proof.

This is a racing game at its bare minimum. You won’t get any of the excitement that the Fast and Furious films generated. It tries, with a drunken stagger, to emulate the films with its gameplay, including some of the stunts from the films such as dragging a safe behind a Dodge Charger through the streets of Rio. However, there is nothing memorable about any of it. All of the voice acting is done by sound-alikes and Vin Diesel is as present here as he was in 2 Fast 2 Furious (not at all).

The maybe three hours you’ll spend playing Fast and Furious: Showdown are plagued by some of the most ridiculously unbalanced difficulty we’ve ever seen. The difficulty flips between patronizingly simple and stupidly difficult. It’s like the game is trying to make you stop playing it.

Each level in Fast and Furious: Showdownstarts with a race before four devastating similar events. Yes, one of four different events are all you have to look forward to in unbelievably generic environments as you try to plod through the unrealistic racing physics and tedium that Justin Lin would probably shake his head at. Even the music is generic and forgettable.

We would suggest using the money this game costs and just seeing Fast and Furious 6 with the usual complement of snacks and soda. Do you agree that Fast and Furious: Showdown is just another movie tie-in video game that shouldn’t exist?