The Fast & Furious movies are known and loved for their
over-the-top pomp and insane stunt driving. It's good dumb fun, and that's the
thing action games are best at. That’s why it’s such a surprising letdown that
Fast & Furious: Showdown fails on practically every level to capture any of
its cinematic brethren’s frantic energy and enthusiasm for lovely destruction.
This feels like the bare minimum for what it takes to be a racing game. Are
there cars? Yes. Is it interactive? Yes. Is it possible to complete? Yes. Is
there even the slightest modicum of entertainment to be found within its
soulless shell? Absolutely not.
That mission, like most of the 30 included, was mercifully
over within four or five minutes. If you do the math, you come out with a
completion time of roughly.
Better Games Based On Movies two and a half hours, or three
if you account for the wildly uneven difficulty that flips between
patronizingly simple and stupidly difficult. Even at that length, I felt that
Showdown seemed to actively try to persuade me to stop playing before I reached
the finish line.
Minimum System Requirements:
- Operating System: Windows@XP / Windows Vista / Windows®7
- Processor: Intel Dual
Core @ 2.8 GHz or higher
- Memory: 1 GB of RAM
(2 GB for Vista & Win 7 )
- Graphics Card: 256 MB
(Nvidia GeForce 7900) Pixel Shader 3.0
- Hard Disk: 3 GB free
disk space
- Sound Card DirectX compatible
- DirectX@9.0c
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