
Payback probably has the best and most realistic engine sound quality of all the games out there at the moment. This almost arcade like handling is very addictive. Yes the handbrake is ridiculously overpowered and you can drift at insane speeds but like I said, this is not a simulator. I was playing Driveclub before this which has totally different controls so switching cars the whole time and not getting comfortable with one car was very difficult.Īfter the first weekend however I was loving it. Then your crew gets back together and you choose two cars (one for race and one for offroad) to start your career with. You then play as Mac giving drifting lessons to some Tigerselfie singer dude in Subaru BRZ, switch to Jess being a bankjob getaway driver in a Audi S5 Sportback. Then a racer scout from The House lends you a modified BMW M5 in a fixed race where you should lose which you win. The game skips six months where you have to deliver Marcus’s Aston Martin DB11 to him, switch to your piece of shit Datsun 240Z. You then escape the cops in the R34 and get caught my Marcus. Then the shit hits the fan and Navarro takes the Regera. You are then in between the Regera and Jess’s M5. Then you realise you are not prepared for the Regera. Then they test you with Rav’s 65 Mustang to prepare you for the race where you steal the Regera.

You start with Tyler’s R34 GTR (Race), switch to Mac’s 55 Bel Air (Offroad), switch to Jessica’s new M5 (Runner), back to Tyler’s R34 to finish the first bit. In that first hour or so you are driving back and forth between a lot of different cars. I keep comparing the handling and realism to sim racers which this definitely isn’t.Ģ. The first hour of gameplay was so dreadful I nearly deleted it. Then you wait a year for a new NFS to come out and do it again.

I really miss the good old days where the plot of a NFS game was to start as a noob, climb the ranks and race to be the best racer in town until the end credits play. When the trailer for Payback dropped the internet went crazy accusing EA for “going Fast & Furious” or going Hollywood. They love to bet on street racing) and she screwed over the crew and shot Rav the mechanic.

Navarro was working for a rich bunch of aresholes who calls themselves “The House” (Casino owners who basically own everything and everyone. They tried to steal a Koenigsegg Regera with special modification from a casino owner named Marcus Weir with help from a woman named Lina Navarro. The team consists of four main characters which are Tyler Morgan (whit guy - race and drag), Sean McAlister (black guy – offroad and drift), Jessica Miller (the chick - runner) and Ravindra Chaudhry (mechanic).
