PSPs, PS2s getting Fast, Furious

Namco Bandai developing game based on third The Fast and the Furious movie; racer speeds into stores this summer.

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The street-racing genre still has some gas left in the tank. Namco Bandai Games is putting a new competitor on the tracks with The Fast and the Furious for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. The game will be "set in a world related to, yet separate from," the upcoming Universal Pictures' feature film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and it is scheduled to be released this summer.

The Fast and the Furious focuses on the underground scene of drift racing in Japan. Gamers will take to city streets in hundreds of licensed cars that can be tricked out with more than 500 body kits from authentic manufacturers. The game also features boss races, as well as an "advanced rubber band" artificial-intelligence system. Multiplayer modes include two-player split-screen and up to four players online.

The game is being developed by British developer Eutechnyx. The company has spent plenty of time behind the wheel, with racing games Street Racing Syndicate, Ford vs. Chevy, and Big Mutha Truckers.

With the first two Fast and the Furious films grossing over $270 million domestically, one would think a game based on the license would have been made years ago. In fact, VU Games had a Fast and the Furious game in the works but cancelled it during development.

Vin Diesel, star of the series' first film, is working on a racing project based on a movie, but it isn't The Fast and the Furious-related. Diesel is working with Midway Games on The Wheelman, scheduled for release sometime in 2007.

34 Comments

  • d_void999

    Posted Sep 7, 2006 2:51 pm PT

    How come everyone one compares F&F to NFS:Underground what about Midnight Club. Wasn't that out way before NFS:Underground?

  • Weeks01

    Posted Jun 14, 2006 7:17 pm PT

    This game has been in development for a few years now. I don't know if the same developer has been working on it but hopefully when it actually comes out it will be a good game... hopefully. And by the way THE FIRST MOVIE WAS AWSOME. THE 2nd and 3rd SUCK!!!!!

  • johnarnel_08

    Posted May 15, 2006 12:17 pm PT

    i guess this will end up like a NFS.. but NFS is far more better than this..

  • supercrap1

    Posted Apr 5, 2006 11:17 am PT

    Just port the arcade game please-this looks sucky.

  • Kravyn81

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 10:28 pm PT

    Funnily enough I saw the trailer for the next "Fast" movie the other day, and, well...let me just ask this: is it a bad sign to actually feel like you're going to MISS Paul Walker's "performance?"

  • BadMrSnake

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 4:13 pm PT

    I hope this game actually makes it out. They were supposed to do a game on the first F&F but it never was made

  • smbius

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 2:14 pm PT

    The people who like this game are the ones who have cars with high spoilers, craploads of stickers, cars lowered 1mm off the ground with spinners, mini tv screens on headrests and unfunctional vents/hood scoops everywhere. F*** Fast in the Furious for screwing up the import scene...and now games.

  • MartinMan

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 12:34 pm PT

    hmm i'll probably get it for my PSP.

  • samuelnoir

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 11:04 am PT

    You guys are right : movie was terrible and there are quite few driving games on psp already. Now is Gran Turismo going to change all that ? It'd better be VERY good.

  • IsmirZone

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 9:58 am PT

    This game will do so bad. The movie was released long ago and games based on movie never so well. So many games that are more worthy of your buck.

  • 1337knight

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 9:53 am PT

    OMG....
    They REALLY SHOULD WORK ON A INITIAL D GAME....
    i mean if they can release this game...Sega (made the arcade game)
    should consider making a INITAL D with updated controls AND ONLINE MULTIPLAYER...that would be awesome.

  • Mista_Sal

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 9:24 am PT

    I don't care for the movie so I don't care for this game. Never really been a fan of the NFS series either.

  • silentmobius

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 8:40 am PT

    Street Racing Syndicate, Ford vs. Chevy, and Big Mutha Truckers.
    With AAA racing titles like those, what can go wrong?

    R U kidding me.

  • toment

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 8:06 am PT

    How could they not name it 3 3ast 3 3urious!? Imbeciles!!!

  • gt4freak1985

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 7:52 am PT

    Uhm I love racing games but come on these street racing games suck as well as the fast and the furious sucks even more. I understand peoples complaints about racing games on the psp, but that is what is actually selling the most right now on the psp. Just wait and your rpgs will come and I am also mad at the lack of fps and socom styled games also. Where is the nascar title for the psp EA?

  • bryehngeocef

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 7:20 am PT

    ridge racer in tokyo

  • naka_kun

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 7:13 am PT

    there's a arcade featuring the fast and the furious merchandise here in japan...and it sux. I dun remember who made that crap...but it just sux...A LOT...

    those pics looks like another shutoko battle game! lol...

  • lageasy311

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 7:04 am PT

    scarabus what are u talking about, there is like 3 driving games for the psp. That's not that many.

  • skitzocyko

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 6:51 am PT

    a little late don't you think?

  • bunty_007

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 6:43 am PT

    Another movie to game. That sucks! Another average rated game.

  • Schillinger

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 6:26 am PT

    Urgh, the movies were bad enough.

  • chrisdojo

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 6:19 am PT

    teh unda grnd racerz!!!1

  • timts

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 6:00 am PT

    I thnk the 2nd movie, 2 fast and 2 furious sucked already.

  • abelmaestro

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 5:46 am PT

    I don`t like racing games made by Namco at all and I don`t this game will be better than NFS, its a waste of time and money

  • Scarabus

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 4:36 am PT

    Ugh.. how many driving games are they going to push for the PSP?
    Enough is enough.

  • Lewis-Morgan

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 4:01 am PT

    Don't we already have Fast and the Fur.... Oh sorry I was thinking of Need for Speed

  • Lauryn2000

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 3:41 am PT

    Fast n the Furious for the PSP?

  • guisepppe

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 3:07 am PT

    As if the movies weren't crappy enough =/.

  • MadonnaProject

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 12:45 am PT

    oh no.

    this turned me into those people who post for the sake of posting. but i just dont have anything else to say. except: OH NO.

    but i already said it....

  • DiscGuru101

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 12:10 am PT

    Mmmm. I wonder why this game isnt developed for PS3? Cause it takes a lot of product confidence to go next-gen baby. Thats why.

  • SCARFACELP

    Posted Apr 3, 2006 11:13 pm PT

    hmm i don't know Namco's track record with racers has not been that good lately. it seems they are stuck in the past of old arcadey type of racers/games.
    i know that namco is not developing but their choice of develope is laughable at best.

  • AiresDevil

    Posted Apr 3, 2006 11:04 pm PT

    wow Ford Vs Chevy, i wonder wut kind of great game this will be, Geez y cant EA steal the rights and at least make a NFS Clone

  • mastershake911

    Posted Apr 3, 2006 11:01 pm PT

    ya the movie too 2nd YAY

  • mithund

    Posted Apr 3, 2006 11:00 pm PT

    wow, i'm first again ?!?! where IS everyone ? Anyway, this game is going to look like NFS Underground in the end... but crapier !

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