Fast & Furious: Showdown (2013) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Fast & Furious: Showdown

Strap in and get ready for an intense ride as you team up to take down a dangerous international gang that can only be stopped by you and the rest of the Fast & Furious crew.

10 21 May 2013

What Fast & Furious: Showdown is

Fast & Furious: Showdown is a racing game developed by Firebrand Games and released in 2013. It was published by Activision. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Strap in and get ready for an intense ride as you team up to take down a dangerous international gang that can only be stopped by you and the rest of the Fast & Furious crew.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Fast & Furious series

Fast & Furious: Showdown is the second of 7 entries we hold in the Fast & Furious series. It arrived 2 years after Fast Five. The next entry was Forza Horizon 2 Presents Fast & Furious in 2015.

See all 7 Fast & Furious games in release order →

How it was received

Fast & Furious: Showdown holds a critic score of 10 out of 100. That places it above 0% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 60 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Fast & Furious: Showdown launched on 21 May 2013, within three weeks of Metro: Last Light, Trine 2: Complete Story, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Metro: Last Light, Trine 2: Complete Story, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.

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