Need for Speed™ Payback

Pros: - Pure arcade handling. - Good event and track variation. - Huge open world. - Mods. Cons: - EA. - Boring characters. - Mac's constant yapping. - Worst upgrade system I've seen in my 30 years of racing games.

The game has a big and diverse map with a city, desert, and mountains to explore. There are five car classes (Race, Drift, Off-Road, Drag, and Runner), offering a lot of variety. You can change almost every part of your car's look and performance. You can find abandoned classic cars hidden in the world and restore them into supercars. The campaign has exciting, over-the-top missions that feel like they are from a movie. You can play the entire single-player story without an internet connection. The story follows three different characters, each with their own skills and missions.

This is really good nfs game, I know why people hated small part of it ( customization mechanism ) apart from that it is like a movie, great visuals as per 2017 I guess, LOADING IS BETTER THAN NFS HEAT AS PER 2025

This is by far the worst nfs I've played. The drifting mechanics are horrible. I've tried playing with the keyboard,controller and G29 Logitech steering wheel. Would not recommend to anyone who is really into racing games. I tried refunding it since I tried it for an hour, but no refund was given. A complete waste of money!

Need for Speed Payback delivers fast-paced street racing action with a strong emphasis on cinematic moments and an over-the-top story. The game features a large open world called Fortune Valley, inspired by the American Southwest, filled with diverse race types, challenges, and collectibles. The car customization is deep and visually impressive, letting you tweak both performance and appearance to suit your style. The driving mechanics are arcade-style — accessible but sometimes inconsistent, especially when it comes to handling in different conditions. While the story and characters feel a bit cheesy, the adrenaline-fueled races and chaotic police chases keep things exciting. However, the game suffers from some technical issues and an aggressive grind in its progression system, which can be frustrating.

it is beginer friendly. the only thing i disliike is that the last races are hard and u must spend lots of ingame money to modify ur car so u win

This version of NFS felt decent. The map was great, with lots of activities to do. The music was probably 10 tracks at best, not my favourite music kit so i had music muted and listened to Spotify in the background. Customisation? Very little is a bit underwhelming and i'm not really a big fan of forced customisation for each car. Only couple of choices. Is that even a customisation ? The different classes of cars was also not my favourite as game-play was forced into you? Why cant i drive a road car on offtrack if i wanted to ? It's slower but who cares ? Let me choose! The time slow after cops crash to show a cool effect was the most annoying thing about the game. I kept driven of road and into barriers because of this time slow motion to show car crash. No way to skip! No point of destroying cop/thug cars, as it gave u nothing? Just one blank time slow that ruins the game and no rewards for cop destruction. Interesting to see that this game had references to ...

This game's wheel support is too bad i can barely even play this on my Xbox Logitech G920

Game is broken, im currently stuck at the end of chapter 3. everytime, same corner, game will just freeze completely (while doing story) and need to force game to close via alt f4.

A banger of a game. The best need for speed imho, would play again