The Fast and the Furious (2006 video game)

The Fast and the Furious is a 2006 racing game developed by Eutechnyx and published by Namco Bandai Games for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. The game is based on the Fast & Furious film series, particularly the third film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

Gameplay

Players race on the

Development

In 2003, Universal Interactive announced a Fast and the Furious game was in development by Genki, and showed off a demo of the game at that year's E3 expo.^[1] The promotional trailer is included as one of the bonus features in the 2 Fast 2 Furious DVD.^[2] However, that game was cancelled when Universal Interactive was shut down as a separate publisher the following year after ties between parent company Vivendi Games and Universal Studios were severed.

The published game was a wholly separate development, begun under license from the film studio. It is considered a spiritual successor to 2004's Street Racing Syndicate, which was also developed by Eutechnyx and published by Namco, and with which it shares many themes and gameplay elements.

In 2023, an unreleased prototype build of the game for the Xbox was found on an old Eutechnyx Xbox Development Kit by Dimitris Giannakis, better known as Modern Vintage Gamer, and released online.^[3][4]

Reception

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The game was met with mixed reception. GameRankings and Metacritic gave it a score of 58% and 59 out of 100 for the PlayStation 2 version^[18][20] and 55% and 58 out of 100 for the PSP version.^[19][21]

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