Welcome to our Hands-off review of Fast & Furious: Spy Racers Rise of SH1FT3R, where we got a sneak preview of this new game based upon the Netflix animated show.
Get your spy gear ready and ride to victory in Fast & Furious: Spy Racers Rise of SH1FT3R! Your moment has come to join Tony Toretto as a Spy Racer in a racing tournament across the world – from LA to the Sahara Desert and beyond. Take on the role of a Spy Racer and battle against the resurgent criminal racing organization, SH1FT3R. Prove you’re the best by racing across unique tracks with your gadgets and speeding through secret shortcuts. Personalize your car with unique skins and unlock new items within the game. Compete in couch co-op with a friend or play online with up to 5 other players. If you’ve ever wanted to be a hard-driving undercover spy, the Spy Racers want you!
The criminal racing organization SH1FT3R has returned and they’re racing for the ultimate prize – an invisible, untraceable high-tech vehicle. Become your favorite thrill-seeking Spy Racer characters, including Tony Toretto, Echo, Cisco and Layla Gray. Even unlock SH1FT3R villains in quick race and online multiplayer, in globe-spanning events full of high-speed destruction and thrilling plot twists!
Fast & Furious: Spy Racers Rise of SH1FT3R is based upon the Netflix series and well, to be blunt, I had never heard of it before. Not because I do not have a Netflix subscription or so, but because I have very little interest in the movie series as a whole. I think the movies are highly overrated and they should stop wasting money on the franchise. And then, I got an invite for a hands-off presentation. Meaning I’d get to watch someone play the game and listen to commentary in the meantime.
Right from the bat, my audio was not working. Or I should say the game audio. A reboot of my computer did not fix it and my other one, a Microsoft Surface, failed to get gameplay audio as well. But in the middle of things, it suddenly came through so I had around 10 minutes worth of game-watching time.
I dislike this way of working because this game actually looked like it could have been fun to play myself. Everything shown in the gameplay looked like it was a Mario Kart clone, but one that had been properly managed to fit gameplay and its fanbase from the Netflix cartoon.
Do I want to play the finished game? I am not against it, what I was shown looked interesting enough to say this would be a fun experience, minding the fact that this game is clearly oriented at a younger public than me. Will it change my stance on the franchise? Sincerely doubt it. For me, this looks to be a promising game from a franchise I dislike.
