Are we supposed to think that workers set up the barriers like that, 20 feet apart and alternating sides of the road. Look at the screenshot above, which is from the second half of that mission. The jumping on and off moving trains, stopping bad guys from launching satellites, and exploding trucks are amusing enough, but there’s a whole bunch of unintentionally amusing things to laugh at every few seconds, too.įor example, as you arrive at Crossroads’ first main location, Barcelona, instead of telling you where you are with a splash screen or notice on the HUD, the word BARCELONA stands tall as an actual part of the city, each letter standing taller than any building you can see. Jumping supercars between skyscrapers and flying headbutts from moving vehicles are par for the course, with the “it’s all about family” framing tying everything together.Ĭrossroads has those same crazy setpieces, and family bonding is still a core theme, but Slightly Mad’s game has me laughing at every moment and not just when it’s actively trying to be silly. Whether Vin Diesel knows it or not, Fast & Furious is a series designed around its ridiculousness. What I wasn’t prepared for was quite how hilarious this would be in terms of how ridiculous it is throughout and truly awful it is in some areas. I mean, the trailers weren’t exactly flattering. I somewhat expected the game to be poor in a technical sense. It’d be generous to say the visuals are on par of those from the previous generation the missions are repetitive, and the driving itself is shockingly bad for a studio with such a stellar track record with racing games. This is actually the opening set-piece in Fast & Furious Crossroads, and it only gets more ridiculous from there.Ĭrossroads is bad in all the conventional ways. Spikes! That’s it… all you need to take out a 40-ton war machine that spits 100-foot streams of liquid gasoline. So, what’s your go-to?Īs it turns out, Crossroads’ Vin Diesel has the genius answer, and that’s to ram it with a Dodge donning spikes protruding from the wheel arches.

You wish you had a gun or a flamethrower of your own or a rocket launcher or machine gun or any sort of weapon that fires a projectile. Here’s a hypothetical for you: Say you’re faced with an armored tank that can go 50mph and is armed with a flamethrower.

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