Need For Speed: Payback - Before You Buy

Need For Speed Payback (PC, PS4, Xbox One) is the latest NFS title since the series' refocusing with the previous game in 2015. Does Payback right the wrongs? Let's talk.

[Anaphriel]

Remember when Underground 2 came out and it was awesome? And all you had to buy was...the game. I miss those days.

[TheGoldSwordSquad]

Looks like this Need for Speed game probably won't be on my "Most Wanted" list

[TheLastassassin]

I've had this since it came out, it's fun, but definitely a dumb grind sometimes. Why does every game nowadays feel like a day job. We buy our consoles and computers to avoid the stress of the worklife, not so we can grind our business battles on GTA or run a mission 300x for a cool cape..

[cheeseboi]

Here before the cuz it’s free on PlayStation plus comments.

Edit: Big sad for the people who already bought the game last month.

[Abbas__]

Microtransactions are killing the industry. They take the fun out of games

[Alby]

"You can fool some people sometime but you can't fool all the people all the time" - Bob Marley singing about Electronic Arts

[taredekojackson]

Why don’t they just remaster NFS Carbon and Mostwanted? Same gameplay style but add a little more to the story. Like an extension... Darius comes back... Razor returns... something of the sort. Put the whole crew member concept back into play. I believe every game after those two, and I’d even go as far as to say after NFS Undercover have been a bust. The story has no real purpose, no main character from game to game. These new NFS titles just don’t suck you in like the classics.

[inkblot]

We need a new midnight club to put all these racing games in the dirt tbh

[Arthurzeiro]

If EA wants to make a ton o money with the NFS series, just make an HD remake of NFSU2 and MW with a few more cars.

[xinosaur]

Please give us the 2005 NFS Most Wanted....

[ryanbarker]

Thank you for saving me $60. I used to have tons of fun back in college with my roommates playing NFS: Most Wanted, and was looking into getting this to relive some of that. However, most of the fun we had came from level 5 cop chases in freeroam, screwing around to pull crazy stunts, or challenging ourselves by fully upgrading cars we didn't use often. It's disappointing that Payback can't really offer much of that to me.

[darthmalgus]

Wow! The thumbnails sure are getting creative!

[CODZOMBIESRULEZ]

You just...wonder if they intentionally drop the ball on things so they can keep releasing more games without having to work too hard to one up the previous? I mean they've made that many games already, surely they know what the people are after by now?

Give us:
Nice graphics
Diverse tracks
Enjoyable controls
No rubber banding
Free roam
Quality police chases
Robust online but not always online
Heavy visual and performance customisation (Again, with no rubber banding so it actually means something)
A story with some originality and inspiration
A general air of respect for the gamer as a human being and not just a customer
and on that note, zero loot boxes.
Have I forgotten anything?

They've checked pretty much all of these boxes in separate titles, but refuse to put them together into one.

[Antoniopinto]

It just looks SO SLOW..

Also, no freeroam cop chases.. wtf...

[lorcanatkinson]

As a car enthusiast I love it. The cosmetic customisation and the performance enhancement systems work amazingly. The drifting and drag features are really good too. I don’t believe that “micro-transactions” are a real problem in this game as the leveling and mission progression happens on a semi regular base and the free shipments come in enough that I don’t need to spend ANY extra money whatsoever. 8.5/10 game

[tectoz]

I actually cared for jack from the run, but these guys dont matter

[GengarZ]

Need for Speed Most Wanted is still #1

[jeremycliffordd]

To my fellow ps plus friends, this game is worth the download. Like he said, the story isn’t that good, but the racing makes it worthwhile. If you have been missing out on a the past few games on the franchise, I would definitely give this one a shot. I love the customization and a lot of the races that this game provides.

[mabd]

Anyone else here for the October 2020 PSN game? :D

[traylee]

If only forza horizon was on all platforms, 🐐 racing game