Furious 7 and the Future of Licensed Games

Did you all see Furious 7 yet? Great! Splendid action movie! Now that you’ve experienced the thrill of the film, it’s time to play the tie-in game! What’s that? You didn’t know there was a tie-in game? Of course there’s a tie-in game, all of the biggest properties have tie-in games.

But tie-in games, they suck right? After all, the past few years have brought us gems likeDuck Dynasty, Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, and even a tie-in for the previous F&F film, Fast & Furious: Showdown. With the last, I found the decision to re-release an old PS2 game from 15 years ago on last gen platforms was an odd idea but… oh what’s that? Showdown was released in 2013? And it’s brand new? Oh, how embarrassing. But still, this is all just standard operating procedure for tie-in games.

Thankfully, the tie-in game for Furious 7 is different. It’s called… wait, what? It’s called Forza Horizon 2 Presents: Fast & Furious. (Well, that’s going to need some shortening, let’s go with FH2p:F&F.) That’s not a new game at all! That’s just Forza Horizon 2 with some new DLC, isn’t it? Well, not exactly.

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