#FAST AND FURIOUS 2 GAME MOVIE#
With the next movie delayed this was the perfect time to release a Fast & Furious game, but this doesn’t feel like it was rushed to meet a deadline it feels like it wasn’t even finished at the design stage, let alone final development. It had seemed that such days were long behind us, but this is just as bad as all the other Fast & Furious games, if not worse given how it wastes the behind the scenes talent. That’s good, it’s one of the things that should set Fast & Furious aside form other racers, but the fact that the racing is so bad means that when you’re driving along an aircraft carrier deck with a giant ball and chain attached to your car, or chasing a crashed space rocket (this really happens), the whole experience becomes just farcical.Ī video game Christmas Carol, part 2: The Ghost of Gaming Present - Reader’s Featureįast & Furious Crossroads is an unwanted reminder of the bad old days of movie tie-ins, when cheaply made games would be thrown out as quickly as possible (or not in this case) in order to make money on name recognition, before word got around that the game was no good. Instead you’re usually chasing after someone, or trying to escape from them, and yet the game never makes it clear where your rivals are or what you’re supposed to do when you catch up with them.įast & Furious is a very different franchise now to when it began, a cross between a superhero movie and a James Bond film, so a lot of the time you’re not competing in street races but some kind of ludicrous action set piece with tanks and hovercrafts.
Most missions have some level of non-linearity to them and although they’re nowhere close to being open world relatively few are just straight point to point races. In order to get any speed going you end up pinballing through most missions, barely in control, and often with no idea where you’re supposed to be going. And while everyone jokes about the movies’ contempt for the laws of physics the game takes this so seriously that all the cars bounce around like a bad Mario Kart clone. No matter what you’re driving, every car seems desperate to go into a drift the second you even think about turning. The most obvious problem, and this is the bit we really don’t understand given Slightly Mad’s pedigree, is that the car handling is terrible. There’s also new characters played by Star Trek: Discovery’s Michael Burnham and Orange is the New Black’s Asia Kate Dillon, which suggests that most of the budget must’ve gone on the casting. As you’d expect and demand, the plot doesn’t make a lick of sense, but Peter Stormare is amusingly over-the-top as the bad guy and, unusually for this sort of thing, all the film stars put in a good effort (Vin Diesel is a keen gamer and his own Tigon Studios are also involved). With that in mind, let's get up to speed on the latest news on Fast and Furious Crossroads.Crossroads features a brand-new story, with the original intention for it to lead into the now delayed Fast & Furious 9. Since then, Fast and Furious fans have been waiting a quarter mile at a time for another chance at controlling some of their favorite characters. Hopefully Crossroads will be able to right Showdown's many, many wrongs. That was a game that was so bad that Vin Diesel wouldn't allow his name or likeness anywhere near it. Unfortunately, the previous attempt at bringing Dom, Brian, and the gang to players was the reviled Fast and Furious: Showdown. This isn't the first time the Fast and Furious series has been adapted to video games. Gear up for an epic new chapter in the Fast & Furious saga with high-speed heists, cinematic nonstop action, and adrenaline-fueled stunts in exotic locations. This new entry in the Furious canon is being developed by Slightly Mad Studios and published by Bandai Namco. Effective immediately, we are discontinuing support for the game and there will be no further. Now we know that a new game will be joining the franchise in Fast and Furious Crossroads. We hope you have enjoyed playing Fast & Furious Takedown.
#FAST AND FURIOUS 2 GAME SERIES#
2019 saw the release of the series' first spin-off film, Hobbs and Shaw, while the ninth installment in the main series is still on the horizon. The Fast and Furious franchise shows no signs of slowing down.