Fast & Furious: Spy Racers Rise of SH1FT3R Reviews

Vin Diesel stole my credit card and purchased this game while I was havin' a wank, I give this game a 15 :)

Well this is the best Fast & Furious game on PC that i am aware of. Its better than showdown (which i missed on pc but played on PS3, oh dear) and miles ahead of Crossroads. Why? well it takes the premise of the Kids show and keeps it heart but knows we are all here for the cars, racing and gadgets. The premise is the villain from season one has recruited teh villains from the other series and some old crew to help win the ultimate car. So the Spy Racers enterthe tournament to stop him. Simple plot. If you know the series you know it spans alot of areas so we get locations inspired from them. Sadly no Volcano or underwater levels but hey we do get Mexico, LA, etc... So the campaign consists of 5 missions. These are essentially 4 tournaments of 4 races each and then the final boss fight one on one. Difficulty ranges from Easy with Beginner spy. If its the child's first racing game best start here. Then there is medium and then Hard. Hard i would recommend to any casual racing fan. The challenge is getting to the front but once there holding it is easy. The difficulty can be changed in the options from the main menu between races. The campagin can only be raced by 4 of the 5 heros from the show. Lets pretend Frostee is in Cistco car as he normally is, (though a dune buggy for him from the Sahara series would not have gone a miss, just saying). After each race you earn in game coins to spend on a vending machine that will allow you to unlock the villains cars, skins, music (though can not figure out how to play them yet, :( ) and some background cosmetics for the menu screen. The cars can all be driven through Quick play, split screen and online. So yup you can be the annoying blonde lass. Think there are 13 in total including the one for winning the story. Each car is equiped with the following gadgets: Paint Gun Paint Mine Boost Unique ability - super powerful but can range from defensive to speed to all out aggression. You use the abilities from an energy bar which is easy to read and fills up constantly as you drive. Drifting and jumps help fill it faster. when you trigger one it will use a portion of the bar. in order down its 25%, 50% 75% and the unique is 100% so its not a standard cool down allowing for some thought. If your a racing games fan you will be done in about 3-4 hours for t he achievements and by 6-7 hours for unlocking everything in the game. If you are the target age of the show there is plenty of fun to be had and replay ability and customising your favourites. I got addicted to it and finished it through so will see what the little ones say but so far its miles ahead of the rest of the FF game son PC purely because we have had fun with it. I am writing this review to really say well done to the dev team and that if you are interested in this note its from Outright Games that make Kid games. This is not a hard core game its a pick up put down distraction for fans of the TV series. It is great fun 7/10. If i know how to play the music tracks we got from the vending machine maybe higher. If a fan of the series and no kids, or just interested in it, i'd wait for a sale. Pros: - Unique game mechanics means some strategy - All cars are unique not just a re-skin - Good Track designs with alternate routes - Heart of the TV show captured from Ms Nowhere uncaring attitude and the heroes can do attitude. - HUD has a digital and dial design to choose from aswell as mph or kmph Cons: - Not sure where the music player is - Missed opportunity with some locations from the show - Short if you are a racing game fan 7/10

For those of you who don’t know. I’m a huge fan of the Fast and Furious series, starring the likes of Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and so many others. When Crossroads came around. I was so excited, but it turned out to be the worst game of 2020 back then. Now here we are. I played this based on the Netflix spinoff, featuring Dom’s cousin Tony (played by Tyler Posey) and his friends. And, now. Let me get to the positives and negatives. The pricing is good, for it being 40 dollars and not like a AAA game. Racing is fine, and I like the music. The cast too comes back to lend their voices. But oh god. Look at these graphics, They're good and don’t have technical issues but the graphics and the hardware requirements make Saints Row or The Crew look like a game at Chuck E Cheese’s. I swear, have I seen an arcade machine like this when I was there or let alone a Dave and Busters in my younger years?! Also, THE AI IS SO BAD that I end up losing my place in the positions. Even in 12th place or a little higher than that, I STILL get rewarded for losing?! I hate hearing the same “No, we gotta race again!” Even when it’s a good reward on 2nd or 3rd place And the power ups are AWFUL, LACKLUSTER. I get four of them, and I use them to my advantage, but are they that effective? No! I don’t think so! This game keeps giving me same voice lines to the point you want to shut them up! If you think theres positives in this game, there is but most of the time THERE’S NOT! I tried getting into the story and I just can’t! It plays like an episode but in a spy tournament. That’s it. Even though it’s not as bad as Crossroads. Do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT play this, and spend your money on good racing games somewhere else.

one of the better fast & furious games. shame it's a fast & furious game since it'll probably not get bought by most because of how bad they've been in the past. cars feel a bit heavy, but i think that's because it says you're going 130MPH when you're very clearly going like ... 30. good game. buy it on sale, £34.99 is a bit expensive. id say £15 max as it is VERY short to 100%.

Extremely short and lacking in content. The price is excessive. This game is worth [i]maybe[/i] $5. Not only does it have a horrible price with limited content, they had the nerve to release more content as DLC.

I recommend only for fans and lovers of the arcade race genre. Simple Arcade game, have Local Split-Screen and Online, good graphics,controls are OK, some circuits have some nice visuals, the campaign is extremely short, in the end yields a little fun.

The gameplay is simple and easy, which is somewhat expected considering its target audience is kids. I was still surprised by the more realistic approach to the physics of the car. Although I didn't have a blast completing it, it provided some mindless fun.

Super short game that can be 100% in 2 1/2 - 3 hours so not worth the price tag. Once you're in first place, you're basically miles ahead. The AI is pretty bad and just there to annoy you on your race turned time trial with the aerial paintball bomb. Also you don't feel very fast, even though the speedometer says 130-160 mph, it feels like maybe 40-50 mph. At least the online achievements can be done solo.

Blur with mediocre gameplay, childish presentation, bad weapon balance and less content. Maybe for 8-10€, but not more

[h1]Intro[/h1] After the disaster that was Fast & Furious Crossroads, I was surprised to find a new F&F game was coming out. Made by 3D Clouds, who previously made Xenon Racer, and based on the F&F Spy Racers Netflix show for kids, I was very interested to see what this brought to the table. After playing, I left with a very mixed feeling about this game. On the one hand, this game isn't bad (so much better than Crossroads), but it also isn't great either. [h1]Pros[/h1] -Very polished: Unlike with Crossroads, this game is way more solid. I have not run into any glaring technical issues, or glitches in game with vehicles, physics, weapons, etc. It seems like the developers really cared to make this a finished product right out of the gate. -Dedicated drifting button: Unlike with Xenon Racer, where you drifted by pressing the gas button (yes really), this game having a dedicated drifting button is wonderful. If you don't want to drift around the corner, just brake, and turn like normal. If you want to drift, hold down the drift button, and the car will slide around the corner. It perfectly merges a grippy handling style with a sudo brake to drift mechanic so damn well. Need for Speed developers, take notes. -Good track designs: Although some tracks have extremely tight roads which can be super annoying, there is a good amount of them with plenty of variety in their layout. You have tracks with different road surfaces, multiple jumps, elevation changes, and different routes you can take. Visual wise, there is a good amount of variety as there are four tracks in each of the four location: Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Sahara, and South Pacific. -Great vehicle designs: The vehicles were faithfully recreated from the show, and they look absolutely great. There is a total of 13 vehicles, with different skins that can be bought and applied onto these vehicles. -Splitscreen & online multiplayer: Split screen is always a welcomed addition in this day and age of arcade racers, and even the missions can be played in co-op. I was surprised to find this game also has online multiplayer, although its sadly dead. I do find it weird that offline you have eight total racers, but in online its only up to six... [h1]Cons[/h1] -Bad story: Now I get it, this is based on a kids show so I know we aren't going to have a deep level story here, but like all you do for the story missions is just racing... like there is nothing different. Also, all the character are just pure cringe, and repeat the same voice lines when racing. JUST SHUT UP!!! -Ugly graphics: Xenon Racer is way better looking than this game. A lot of the lighting and shading looks super flat, and texture quality isn't the best. It almost like they were trying to match the game with the show's artstyle but it just doesn't look good. -Vehicles are too heavy: While I love there is a dedicated drifting button, the overall vehicle handling is just way too heavy and understeery. Even when driving the sports and super cars, they handle like an old muscle car. Being that some tracks have super tight roads, it can be a really frustrating time trying to handle these vehicles -Lackluster sound design: From some reasons, some vehicles still sound like the electric cars from Xenon Racer, and there is a lot of repetitious sounds. Like hitting another vehicle has the same crash sound effect, no matter how hard or soft the hit was. Its literally driving me crazy. -The vehicular combat sucks: Firstly, lets talk about the gadgets. All the vehicles have four abilities, Paint Guns, Paint Mine, Turbo, and a special ability that depends on the vehicle you are driving. The combat lacks a lot of depth because vehicles share the same three abilities, and also this makes some vehicles really overpowered just because of their special ability. For example, Shashi can send out drones that bombard the first place driver with paint balls, which slows them down to pretty much a stop. ITS SO FUCKING ANNOYING So how about the physical car on car combat? Yea that sucks too. Cars are just brick walls with little to no give. This leads to moments where vehicles can just get piled up as its a dominio effect of hitting one car, and the whole pack of vehicles getting stuck behind this initial wreck. If I'm going to be hitting vehicles constantly as they slow down due to them getting hit with paint balls, make it so I can push them out of the damn way. -High price tag: This game has a lot of balls if it thinks that its worth $40 USD, when you could get Hot Wheels Unleashed for $10 more, or even Forza Horizon 5 for $20 more. The quality, and content of the game doesn't not match the price they have set. This is a $15 to $20 game at most. [h1]Final Thoughts[/h1] If you are going to get a Fast & Furious game, you might as well go with this one because it's at least a hell of a lot better than Crossroads. However, I'm going to have to go to 'Not Recommended' with this game, although I would consider myself more mixed on this. Overall, while the game can have its fun moments when everything aligns just right, it just a very mixed experience that leaves me wishing more could have been done to make this game a lot better than it turned out. Being the show had it's final season this Decemeber, I doubt that we will ever see a sequel that could improve on what is here... [i]For more reviews like this, check out the [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38286468/]Vehicular Combat Central[/url] Steam curator.[/i]