Choose from licensed supercars and tear through intense, cinematic tracks packed with shortcuts, stunts, missions, and explosive surprises. Race solo or go head-to-head in 2-player split-screen. With drifting, nitro boosts, and precision driving, this is the ultimate pick-up-and-play racing experience for fans of pure, unfiltered speed...

High-speed racing and adrenaline-fueled action straight from the arcade

Fast & Furious: Arcade Edition delivers high-speed racing and adrenaline-fueled action straight from the arcade to console. It's also a game that feels half finished. Firstly, once you start a race... that's it. You're locked in and must keep tackling race after race with no way of heading back to the main menu. But then, there's only one game mode anyway. So even if you could go back to the main menu, you're still going to be going straight back to the same race. But, it would have been useful to go back and change your car.

Another issue is that this is a racing game where absolutely no skill is required. Press your pedal to the metal at all times and off you go. No breaking required as the game simply keeps you on the right course at all times.

Whilst there's the option to corner on two wheels or perform cool flips when jumping, it just feels pointless, as the main aspect of a racer is to race. There's no option to race against online players either. And I had serious concerns about the AI employed. It was almost as though the developers realised that the game is a mess and so they deliberately made it next to impossible to beat the other cars fairly. I'd constantly be in fifth place nearing the end of the race, when all of a sudden I'd shoot into second place. When I did manage to come first I'm still at a loss to work out how I managed it.

While it looks great, there's very little here to keep you entertained for more than a few hours.

3

Nick Smithson