Parents' Guide to Fast & Furious Takedown

Like the worst of the movies that inspired it, this driving game is more frustrating than fun. In Fast & Furious Takedown, you join Letty, Hobbs, and the rest to engage in some street races, while also taking down a terrorist who shares your love of fast cars. But from the start, this driving game has some serious problems. For starters, the default controls — which have you sliding your fingers to steer, brake, and boost — are really awkward, even if you adjust the sensitivity. And while the tapping controls aren't as awkward or oversensitive, even they don't work as well as those in other racing games.

It also doesn't help that the tracks are rather boring and needlessly wide, and that the computer-controlled competition really needs to go to driving school. That said, things do get better when you race against people online, or do one of the missions in which you have to knock the terrorist's henchmen off the road. It's here that having wide tracks is actually a benefit, since you have more room to maneuver. But even this mode becomes redundant after a while, especially since most of the cars pop if you hit them once. In other words, Fast & Furious Takedown is more like the disappointing 2 Fast 2 Furious than the exciting Fast Five.