Need for Speed Payback

Need For Speed Payback isn’t perfect – but it’s a nice step up from prior entries. Outside of Rivals, the series has really struggled over the past five or so years to really find its own way. The FMV-filled reboot wasn’t the right answer, and going for an action movie-styled variant is great for an ad campaign – but doesn’t make for a great campaign itself. Fortunately, the racing action and cop chases that litter the campaign make it worth playing. It looks great in motion, even if the action doesn’t hold up very well. The cop chases are exciting and the point-to-point races bring a level of arcade-style thrill that the series definitely benefits from.

Need for Speed: Payback's story is completely irrelevant and the last-gen graphics almost hurt the eyes, but the gameplay is as good as ever, the police remain enjoyably annoying and customizing the cars is nice and comprehensive. Recommended for a rainy weekend.

Need For Speed Payback refines the formula of the previous game, expanding the scale and rescuing all the good ideas of the franchise, but everything becomes too familiar, repetitive and uninspired. If we add a structure that forces the player to repeat missions in order to continue, the result is a game that looks fun, but is vague and artificial.

If you stick with it you'll find a decent racer here but getting past the inane narrative, broken progression systems and longing for racers past takes some doing.

Need for Speed returns with another flawed entry. There's the core of a great racing game here and when you're just driving around the open world, it's wonderful. The progression system encourages grinding and the basic story is delivered with B-movie seriousness, taking away from the racing pleasure. There's a better game inside of Payback, but you have to go through everything else to get to it.

There’s a perfectly fine racing game somewhere in this mess of half-baked ideas. A fun arcade racer has been drowned in enough ‘one more thing’ additions to fill the entire run of Columbo, and the result is a rather unpleasant muddle of bland story, stop-start driving, and player control being ripped away just as things get juicy.

The worst Need For Speed game of the modern era, that leaves no stone unturned in its attempts to make itself as boring, repetitive, and exploitative as possible.

Me encantó, bueno, es uno de mis favoritos aparte del shift, aunque muchos lo odien, me parece un buen juego, aún hay gente que lo juega y una base de fans, aunque pequeña fiel, aunque el final no es el mejor me encanta, una cantidad de autos buena, un tuning completo, desafíos, y carros con buen sonido, ya veo 15.000 funas

the game is good. i really enjoy this game but the person who made speedruns in this game i wish this person has never made any game ever. speedruns is the only thing i give up on platinum this game if i would not stop i think i would sell this game even if i buy this on a payoff, story is also good cars and customization is so great i've got nothing to say about this game is just brilliant and i recommend the game also speedcross series pack is really good i haven't got this but i was playing this at my friend's house and honestly i was having so much fun playing this thanks for reading have a nice day.

Was cool to get back into NFS franchise with this game. The story is more of a side thing and mostly not a big part of the game but the gameplay is alright.

This is a huge disappointment. The story is just completely unnecessary, and the gameplay is mediocre at best. Different types of races have been introduced, but the scoring system is just utterly nonsensical. Just to give you an example: you can participate in off-road races, with dedicated off-road cars and upgrades for the terrain, but there is a limit at each race to even be able to play, and the scoring system that determines this is completely based on the regular racing conditions. It means that if you equip off-road tyres, the score of your car will be decreased! Even if you buy the best off-road vehicle, you cannot upgrade it to its full potential, because your score will be reduced so much that you won't be able to enter several off-road races later on! The whole system is a whole garbage! I cannot recommend this game to anyone. Maybe only if you want to suffer, then sure.

Decent Game-play and Driving. Ugly graphics and campaign. Also, Micro-transaction system from a free-to-play title implemented into a AAA? NFS Payback is just not a good experience