10/15/2026
Fast & Furious: Showdown feels like a game that somehow released about ten years too late. ๐
This came out in 2013, and even for that era, everything about it feels strangely dated.
The actual driving?
Honestly, it is not even THAT bad going back to it now.
But the world feels empty, the presentation is bland, and despite pulling characters and scenarios from the Fast & Furious universe, it never really captures the energy you would expect from that name.
And the funniest way I can describe it is this:
If this released in 2003, it would have been a Blockbuster hit.
Not a blockbuster HIT.
I mean the type of game you would see sitting on the shelf at Blockbuster, rent for the weekend because the cover looked cool, play for two nights and then probably never think about again. ๐
There is something almost nostalgic about that kind of game.
Not terrible enough that I cannot play it.
Not good enough that I am going to tell everybody they missed a hidden classic.
It just sort ofโฆ exists.
If you grew up with this one or absolutely LOVE Fast and Furious, I can understand wanting to revisit it.
For everybody else?
You probably did not miss much.
Sometimes going back to these forgotten racers is half the fun though. ๐
The race never ends in Yinzburgh.