Fast and Furious: Takedown is a decent arcade racer out now for iOS and Android
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I'll get this out of the way early on - I love the Fast and Furious movies. The first few are bit dull, but when they drop the whole racing thing and instead make everything explode they get way better. Honestly, the F8 of the Furious has the best baby-carrying shoot out since Hard Boiled.
Now that doesn't mean I'm going to get super excited about a Fast and Furious mobile game like Fast and Furious: Takedown - if anything it means I'm going to be more cautious around one, worried that it's going to shatter my dreams of saying that everything is about family while I'm doing donuts in a road-illegal rocket-powered muscle car.
Thankfully though, Fast and Furious: Takedown isn't too bad. It's not the sort of game that's going to stick around on your homescreen for that long, but it's got the feel of an old-school arcade racer. There's a track, it's full of cars, and you've got challenges you need to complete.
Sometimes those involve the titular takedowns - smashing into another car and taking them off the road - other times they're about hitting checkpoints before your time runs out. There's more to explore here too, with drifts, jumps, and near-misses all giving you more nitro to use when things get tough.
It might not have the nonsensical runway of the setpiece at the end of Fast and Furious 6, nor that bit in Fast 5 where Dom jumps across a bridge and lands on a tank, and I didn't see The Stath throughout the entirety of my playthrough, but this is still more Fast 4 than Tokyo Drift.
If any of that sounds like the sort of thing you'd like to stick on your mobile device, you can click here to grab Fast and Furious: Takedown for iPhone or iPad. Or you can click here to pick it up for Android from the Google Play Store.
