The Game Award 2019 sees many reveals of a lot of beautiful games to come in 2020, such as Godfall, Naraka: Bladepoint or Ori and the Will of the Wisps. However, Fast and Furious Crossroads is definitely not one of them.
Even though the game takes the inspiration from the famous movie series that looks hell-a-beautiful with shining cars and high-stake races, this game features horrible visuals design that is far away from today's standard. It's very strange since Bandai Namco has long been known as the publisher with beautiful video game adaptations.
Hence, the new trailer of Fast and Furious Crossroads at The Game Award 2019 raised a lot of questions in the gaming community. You can see it below to check for yourself, and come back to us for the details and preview:
Overview on Fast and Furious Crossroads
Fast and Furious Crossroads is the new action-packed game from the developer Slightly Mad Studio - the creative minds behind the ultra-realistic racing game Project CARS. This comes as no surprise, as previously, the CEO of the studio has accidentally spoiled that it has secured an exclusive contract to develop a Fast and Furious game. Bandai Namco will take the responsibility of bringing this game to the public.
To be more specific, Fast and Furious Crossroads will not tell any story from any movies of the franchise, but will feature a new authentic one. In this game, you'll follow the titular characters of the series, including Dominic Torreto (voiced by Vin Diesel), Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) and Roman (Tyrese Gibson) on a brand new high-speed journey full of heists, races and stunts in a lot of famous locations on Earth.
The trailer doesn't tell us much about the upcoming story apart from several Easter eggs: just Dom and his crew on the adventure to protect a family of strangers while fighting with an unknown threat. Instead, it focuses more on the racing parts, with gadgets, cars, fast-paced cinematic scenes, and heart-pounding actions. The developer confirmed that there will be a multiplayer mode revealed in the future apart from the Story mode.
But even the racing actions of this game looks terrible in the trailer. The cars are very dirty and look like they come from the first Fast and Furious movie in 2006, and the character visualization is not beautiful either. I hope that this happened only due to the fact that the game's still under development, and it will look much more completed in the future.
Both Bandai Namco and Slightly Mad Studio is capable of that, and I'm looking forward to what they can do to improve the game.
Release date
Fast and Furious Crossroads is aimed to release in May 2020. At launch, the game will support PC, Xbox One and PS4.