Fast & Furious: Showdown is a developed by . It was published by for , , , , and . The game is based on series, and bridges the story between the movies and .
The gameplay of Fast & Furious: Showdown focuses on cooperative driving and . The game is centered around different missions, all centered around driving around in semi-destructible loops. These missions can range from a normal race to surviving a certain number of laps. In some missions, the character may need to hijack another vehicle by jumping from the top of their vehicle to the other. All the cars have health bars, and some feature abilities.
The game can be played with an AI partner or in local cooperative play. There is no online gameplay. The gameplay varies from having 2 separate cars, to one person manning the turret while the other drives, to one person jumping out of the car and hijacking the other.
The player takes control of many of the major series characters, except for the noticeably absent .
The story begins with a cut scene featuring finding digging around through files in her office. Riley introduces herself and states she is going to meet in 24 hours, and needs to know everything Hobbs has been up to. The missions are then events told by Monica to explain what Hobbs had been dealing with. Through this, various events from the movies, like the safe dragging scene from , or the hijacking scene from are presented.