Fast and Furious: Showdown begins with you driving a car
through a lifeless city, smashing into every other vehicle you see without any
repercussions whatsoever. When the cops show up, you begin flipping them with
your … car-flipper device, all the while continuing to race through city
streets that feel increasingly confining. At some arbitrary point, the screen
will display the phrase “Busted,” meaning you have failed your mission. Now
confusion sets in. What the hell did you do wrong?
I was able to complete the mission on my second try (without
making any changes), and then I was rewarded with some horrendous cinematics
featuring talent-less D-list actors, all doing their best to mimic the
character’s from the movie, with absolutely no success. It is then that things
just continued to spiral downhill without ever letting up, and I began to
realize that playing this game was a terrible mistake.