A sandbox action-racing game from the corporate collaboration between Bandai Namco, Tiger Studios, Slightly Mad Studios and Universal is in the works for Xbox One, PS4, and PC called Fast & Furious: Crossroads. The new title is due to release in May of 2020.
The game was announced by the middle-aged thespians Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez, as they took to the stage of The Game Awards to reveal the unasked for title.
The debut trailer was also released for the game, looking like something out of 2009 for the Xbox 360. You can check it out below courtesy of Gamer’s Little Playground.
The trailer is themed around some “diverse” group of car jackers who find themselves in trouble and seek out the aid of Dominique Torretto and his gang of criminals with a heart of gold.
It sounds like the actual cast of characters from the original Fast & Furious movies (sans Paul Walker) will be lending their voices to the game.
The lip-synching looks kind of shoddy and the graphics look last-gen, but I imagine gamers craving something that isn’t yet another Dark Souls clone, or yet another open-world looter-shooter, or yet another hack-and-slash action-RPG, might be interested in this game.
It reminds me of a mix of Driver meets Vigilante 8. You’ll be tasked with carrying out various missions, ranging from outrunning cops or chasing down enemies, to helping NPCs hop onto moving trains or mounting weapons on your vehicle and blasting down baddies not unlike some kind of contemporary version of Twisted Metal.
If the handling is solid, the car damage plentiful, the racing intense, and vehicular combat tight, then it could be a decent spiritual successor to Interstate 76. Given that Slightly Mad Studios is working on the game under Bandai Namco, then it might turn out decent given that they did a superb job with the vehicles and the mechanical physics in the Project CARS series, so if they carry that over to Fast & Furious Crossroads then it might turn out all right.
As mentioned at the top of the article, you can look for the game to drop in May for home consoles and PC.
