Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Aug 22, 2022

  is that a supra. wait the supra isent in the game :( we want toyota back
• gamedeal user

  Sep 3, 2022

  All the characters are completely out of place, they won't shut up while you a race, my god I hate them all. You cannot rebind you controllers and there's no way to bind up shift or down shift to RB LB, the music is average at best. Car upgrades come from loot boxes. the game is pretty tho, runs like a charm and the car handling feels great even while drifting! 6/10 buy in SALE!
• gamedeal user

  Sep 4, 2022

  fun game for 2 bucks
• gamedeal user

  Sep 5, 2022

  No matter how far I drive, I can't out drive my loneliness
• gamedeal user

  Sep 6, 2022

  Got it on discount for 3$. Best money ever spent! I'm the type of player that likes thing medium. You know, a bit challenging but also a bliss for when you come back from work and this game, on Medium settings, reached that sweet spot. Story has been so intriguing that it kept me in front of my PC for the weekend (not all, but almost). Just finished it now, while last night all I heard when I went to sleep were the revving engine noises. I played using keyboard so I'm not one to know the things such as physics / controls etc. Found the cars that suited me well and jumped to the pure joy when you smash cop cars and it shows you a short cinematic of it, giving you enough time to make the ''yayx, that hurt'' face. Truly worth every penny.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 6, 2022

  First. I'm recommending this game only because its 3 bucks and it's NFS. If you've ever played one you know whast this game is. Unrealistic driving, slow feel no mater how fast you go, unlimited nitrous boost and no car damage. Story? Pppfft. Who cares. But its a guilty fun i enjoy. This game however in particular is especially problematic because EA.... You suck EA... And Origin game launcher makes other launchers whos names i won't mention but they start with a *pic and a ***soft, look like really great fleshed out feature rich launchers with no bugs or lag whatsoever. Having said that. This game will occasionally not work. Like at all. Like i spent an hour going over fixes for a game released late 2017. Wanna know what the issue was? EA launcher didn't know where the game was located! So for those of you who bought this at 3 dollars or are thinking about it but heard there are issues my fix was simple. Go into EA launcher, go to game properties and add -datapath "C:\WHEREVER YOU HAVE STEAM INSTALLED\steamapps\common\Need for Speed Payback" to the command line. Now the game works. Buy it for 3 dollars. Spend nothing extra. EA deserves nothing. This game does get a thumbs up however for being a guilty pleasure.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 8, 2022

  Great gameplay inside a cringefest! (Don't worry, it's a solid game!)

  Okay, i will start this by mentioning, i played NFS series since the first one, obviously, i got old and boomery so after Most Wanted (2005) came out i got disappointed, and ever since, NFS games stopped being one of my favourite franchises. Anyhow, few days ago i caught this on a -90% sale, for 3$ i couldn't turn it down, i gave it a try thinkig "Ey, what the hell, let's see what's new". And that's when i became a junkie. In just few days i managed to play like 53 hours almost. I got hooked up on it like crazy. My complaints are related mostly to the extra challenges (speedruns, drift challenges, jumps), if you want to get all the achievements/completely finish the game you have to do those, they're hell on earth. I would gladly spend 3 days in a jail instead of doing them. I am not a very good player (in my recent years i becamme a filthy casual), but still, they're just badly designed with big requirements. I am almost certain the devs haven't done them themselves to see if they're even remotely feasible. And i read that previously, devs that worked on NFS series said that they were kinda forced into just releasing the games, and not polish them accordingly, i don't know if that's the case but i think it's likely. Now, most people don't care about achievements or extra completion bullshit, i like to call them 'the happy ones'. Another thing that kinda bugs me is that, it's a street racing game, right? Then why the hell do we have to go through so many checkpoints, it kinda beats the "street racing" vibe when you have to do things accordingly, there are just few shortcuts that aren't really shortcuts, you can easily miss these checkpoints, and you have to go back to them, which obviously, is as stupid as it sounds. Story is a cringefest to say the least, i swear to God, it's like 2002 called and wanted Vin Diesel from XXX back. All the dialogues and pseudo-machoism you'd expect from that movie, or from the Fast and Furious series. It didn't bother me, though, it was so bad it was funny as hell. Luckily, it's NFS. Nobody in this damn world that plays it gives a quarter of a fuck about the story. Overall, the game is really solid, graphics are good, it just feels right playing it, cars don't have that sluggish wanna-be racing sim feeling. I would definitely recommend people to play it, especially old-farts (I am not even that old, but sometimes i feel like it..) like me that got to the point they're too boomery to enjoy "modern" games anymore. Gameplay: 8/10 Graphics: 7/10 Story: Vin Diesel/10 For the people that don't feel like reading an entire review, i will make few short points: The bad: - The extra challenges for achievements are awfully bad, tiring and too much - Multiplayer is almost dead, at least on Ranked, not sure about the casual - Checkpoints in races, and no "real" shortcuts - Sometimes, slow loading screens even on a good computer where the game is also installed on the SSD The good: - If you pay attention to dialogues and cutscenes, you will feel the power of Great Van Diesel the 1st flow through you, you will hear Britney Spears in your head and a Nokia 3310 will spawn in your hand. - I think there are lots of cars, that will appeal to every sort of category of people. You can even make Ted Bundy's beetle, or if you didn't have luck trading crypto or stocks the last few years, you can at least get a lambo in NFS. - Lots of customizations (I wish there were more options when placing decals, to alter their shape only horizontally for example) - Solid handling and feel when driving. It feels like NFS again, it's almost perfect. - Plenty of stuff to do in free-roam - It has a pretty easy learning/getting-used-to curve I really enjoyed my time with this game, and i hope you will too! Have a great day and thanks for reading my ramblings. A small edit: I forgot to mention, Payback really brought back my love for racing games, so now i am installing a bunch of racing games i already own for when i have time to play.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 18, 2022

  ---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ Free Fire ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It‘s just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{Audio}--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{Audience}--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☐ Adults ☑ All ---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{Difficulty}--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{Grind}--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding ---{Story}--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It‘ll replace your life ---{Game Time}--- ☐ Really short ( 0 - 2 hours) ☐ Short ( 2 - 8 hours) ☐ Few hours ( 8 - 12 hours) ☑ Long ( 12+ hours) ☐ Endless ---{Price}--- ☐ It’s free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{Bugs}--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ Cyberpunk 2077 ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{75/100}---
• ム~MAAXWELL'j

  Nov 12, 2022

  amazing game with a realistic graphic and smooth mechanics.
• Emocha

  Nov 13, 2022

  dog sh!t story line