Good Review: Fast and Furious Showdown is GARBAGE

Let's kick it of with the first review on this blog. Now, there's something about Fast and Furious movies that I like (except for Tokyo Drift, don't ask me why, I guess it's the change and all). Anyway, we were recently treated to the new Fast and Furious movie, and along with it came the Fast and Furious Showdown. An official movie game. So let's see what's it all about.

Now first let's mention that fact that everyone already knows: GAMES BASED ON MOVIES SUCK! Well, 95% of them, there were a few good ones, or at least decent ones. The rest of them are pure garbage. And this one is.. well.. SHIT.

GRAPHICS

The orange line is not a speed effect. Jut a wall to prevent you from going anywhere of the main road.

Where should I start. Let's start from the obvious, the first thing you'll see is the graphics of course. The game looks like it was made for smartphones 3 years ago. That's how good it looks. The environments are so bland and uninteresting, I'd rather paint my wall and watch the paint dry. That would be more interesting then their environments. Textures are low resolution, everything is low poly and destruction and similar animations are awkward at best.

SOUND
The sound isn't much better either. Turn on the vacuum cleaner when, and if, you decide to play this game, and you may even get to enjoy the sound.

There are also some kind of  ''cinematic scenes'' between the missions (of which there are about thirty from what I've read, I never bothered to finish the game), and those cinematic scenes look.. well, let's just say they are not like the movie. I won't even bother explaining how bad they are. The sound actors are not the ones in the movie but some kind of their imitators that don't do a good job.

The game features most of the characters from the movie. Or at least some clumsy mesh of polygons that is supposed to look like them, but as I already mentioned they're not voiced by their real life counterparts. Also, Vin Diesel is not in the game. My best guess is he didn't want to give them the permission to use his likeness as he knew what kind of terrible game it'll end up to be.

GAMEPLAY
Now the gameplay. You drive (if that can be called driving) and you shoot sometimes. 30-ish missions that last about 5 minutes each where you always do the same thing, try to reach the end of the track. There are no shortcuts, secret alleys or anything like that. Just ride the middle of the road for five minutes, try not to crash into retarded AI for about five minutes and you'll get a message that you've passed.

GOOD OR BAD

BAD.. BAD... BAD, BAD, BAD!!! No really, the game is bad. It sucks. They've tried to make a few mission from earlier movies like driving with a huge safe tied to the back of your car, or racing down a hill in Japan.. but none of it is done right, it's all bland, uninteresting. You don't feel the speed. You feel like you're walking a dog when you're supposed to go 200+.

This is just a cash grab like most of movie inspired video games. So don't buy it. Go buy some classic game, go fill up your gas tank and drive crazy for that money and die in a crash accident. Even that's better than buying this game. I'm out.