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Fast & Furious: Showdown is a racing game released for the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS in 2013. It is based on the movie franchise, Fast & Furious.
Gameplay[]
The game is focused on cooperative driving and combat orientated around missions. The game is played with an AI or in local cooperative play with the second player either controlling a car or the turret or jumping to another car to hijack it. The missions consist of completing a race, surviving a certain number of laps or getting the other player to hijack the other car.
All the cars have health bars and deteriorate from crashing and turret fire.
Plot[]
The game serves as a bridge between the movies Fast Five and Fast & Furious 6. The story begins with a cutscene with Monica Fuentes finding Riley Hicks snooping through her office. She says she is going to meet Luke Hobbs in a day and needs to learn what he's been doing. Monica then tells her what he's been dealing with various scenes from the movie playing out.
Reception[]
The game was critically panned across the board with aggregates giving the game scores in the 20s out of 100.
3DS eShop Description[]
BECOME A PART OF THE CREW! Strap in and get ready for an intense ride as you team up to take down a dangerous international gang that can only be stopped by you and the rest of the Fast & Furious crew.
Key Game Features:
Team Action Racing:
Get behind the wheel of some of the world's most intense rides and take on high-stakes driving missions cooperatively with a friend or computer A.I.
Choose the Experience:
Put skills to the test in Challenge Mode, an over-the-top game mode offering addictive objectives and high re-playability
Diverse and customizable cars:
Build your dream car and modify it with more than 50 awesome upgrades and performance perks
Storyline that spans the franchise and travels the globe:
Heists, hijacks and mayhem combine across 8 epic global locations, from Rio to LA to Moscow, in an original storyline that spans the entire Fast & Furious film franchise.
External links[]
- Fast & Furious: Showdown at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Fast & Furious: Showdown at GameFAQs