Fast & Furious Crossroads is a hybrid action and racing game for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows via Steam, released on August 7, 2020 after delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The game was developed by Slightly Mad Studios (of Project CARS fame) and published worldwide (except for Japan) under Bandai Namco Entertainment. The game features the likeness and voices of Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and Tyrese Gibson as (respectively) Dom, Letty and Roman, the roles they played in The Fast and the Furious film series. Peter Stormare, Soneque Martin-Green, Asia Kate Dillon, Laura Prats, Usman Ally and Christian Latz also lend their likeness and voices to the game.
Upon its release, most gamers and critics criticized it for the PS3-like graphics, repetitive gameplay, clunky controls, and the high price on PSN and Steam.
The story starts when Mr. Nobody dispatches Dom and Letty to Athens, Greece on a mission to investigate a series of heists that may have to do with a covert syndicate known as the Tadakhul. Meanwhile, Vienna Cole and Cam Stone settle in Barcelona, Spain after moving from Miami, Florida due to a Dark and Troubled Past when they were racers. Things begin to take a turn when Vienna's boyfriend Sebastian Miro owes a debt to Tadakhul. As Dom and Letty help Vienna and Cam, with Roman working undercover in New Orleans, they learn that the heists in Europe is linked to a mysterious European man named Emil Elias Ormstrid.
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The game contain examples of the following tropes:
- Car Fu: The crew can use their vehicles to smash hostile vehicles out of the way by ramming them to the side and make them crash.
- Continuity Nod: Letty informs Vienna and Cam that Emil used to work with Owen Shaw while trying to locate Nightshade components thanks from information supplied by Hobbs. He also has underworld links with Cipher.
- More Dakka: The cars used by the crew can mount miniguns on the roof to take out attachments on hostile vehicles.
- Myth Arc: The game features three stories.
- Dom, Letty and Roman are tasked by Mr. Nobody to assist his agency to investigate heists going on in Western Europe, leading to a secret criminal syndicate called the Tadakhul.
- Vienna and Cam get involved in the underworld after the former's boyfriend Sebastian with Tadakhul.
- Dom and Letty get the assistance of Vienna and Cam to help them investigate Tadakhul, which later leads to the involvement of a European criminal named Emil Elias Ormstrid, who has big plans in the underworld in North America.
- Sequel Goes Foreign: As a spin-off to The Fast and the Furious films, the game has its early scenes in Greece, Morocco and Spain. Later on, the game has stages in the United States.
- Serkis Folk: The cast had their likeness and movement done via motion capture.
