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The Fast and the Furious (PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable)

The Fast and The Furious is a tie-in game to the 2006 film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, featuring elements from said film. It can also be considered a spiritual successor to Street Rac]ing Syndicate as it shares elements with said game.

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Document unreleased Jul 7, 2006 build original Xbox version

Regional Differences#

The North American release included Honda-brand cars (including models from its Acura-brand subline). They were removed from the European version due to licensing issues.

Honda

  • 2005 S2000 (AP2)
  • 2002 NSX-R (NA2)
  • 2005 NSX-R GT (NA2)
  • 2004 Civic Type-R (EP3)
  • 2006 Civic 1.8 VTEC (FN1)
  • 1998 Integra Type-R (DC2)
  • 2005 Integra Type-R (DC5)
  • 2006 Civic Si Coupe (FG2)

Acura

  • 2005 NSX (NA2)
  • 1997 Integra Type-R (DC2)

As a result, certain presets were changed in the European version. The following Honda presets were changed, with Hot Version's cars changed to a plain white paint job from the Spoon Sports paint jobs. Also the Type One tuning shop was removed in the European releases.

Rival

US

Europe

Intro (Dizzy)

Honda NSX-R (NA2)

Toyota Supra Twin Turbo (JZA80)

JDM Justin

Acura Integra Type-R (DC2)

Nissan Silvia K's (S13)

Rikdaddy

Honda NSX-R (NA2)

Nissan Silvia K's Aero (S14 Kouki)

Jay (Jason Laurea)

Acura Integra Type-R (DC2)

Nissan 180SX Type-X (RPS13)

Deltovar

Honda Civic Type-R (EP3)

Ford Focus SVT (C170)

Junko

Acura NSX (NA2)

Toyota MR-S (ZZW30)

Twinkie

Honda Civic Type-R (EP3)

Saleen S121 NOS Focus SVT (C170)

Dave Brown

Honda Integra Type-R (DC5)

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII RS (CT9A)

Tyler McQuarrie

Honda S2000 (AP2)

Toyota Supra RZ (JZA80)

Steph Papadakis

Honda S2000 (AP2)

Mazda RX-8 Type S (SE3P)

Dizzy

Honda NSX-R GT (NA2)

Toyota Supra Twin Turbo (JZA80)

In addition, the amount of roll-up racers was decreased from 40 to 32 due to 8 of them using Honda cars.

References#


  1. ELECTRONIC ARTS AND NAMCO BANDAI GAMES INC TO CO-PUBLISH THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS VIDEO GAME IN PAL TERRITORIES (archived)↩︎
  2. Digital Acorn - Recent Projects↩︎
  3. Six by Nine (archived)↩︎
  4. Deep Silver to co-publish additional Namco Bandai titles | GamesIndustry.biz↩︎
  5. A Fast and Furious news Flash - Gaming Nexus↩︎
  6. The Shipping News - Week of April 23 - IGN↩︎
  7. test the fast and the furious : tokyo drift Playstation 2 : jouer aux jeux PC et consoles (archived)↩︎
  8. NEWS - DEEP SILVER (archived)↩︎
  9. Updated Australian release list, 12/03/07 - PALGN News - Australia's PAL Gaming Network (archived)↩︎