It's actually quite fun for 30 minutes if you switch off your brain and turn all the noise down.īut it's difficult to enjoy when there's more nonsense getting in the way. In between these missions you race, drift, hit jumps, blaze through speed cameras and a few other things to upgrade your car so you can reach a level high enough to do the story missions. You race, drift, hit jumps, blaze through speed cameras and take part in missions referred to as heists (they're not) to get revenge on someone for stealing a car you liked. It's the cast of a Saturday morning cartoon.īut look, it would be wrong of me to judge the game on these dudes even though you have to wade through their collective arseholes to get to play the thing. There's a bunch of other cliches and hammy villains, including a mechanic who refers to himself as an artist, some bell-end called The Gambler (he likes to gamble) and a baddie called The Collector (yep, he likes to collect cars). Sean McAlister ("The Mac Attack!") and Jess Miller are only there so you can drive different classes of car and babble incessantly. The other characters aren't any more likeable. When you think you'll have a little quiet time, main hero Tyler Morgan begins talking to himself. If it's not them it's the completely pointless police radio spitting out directions or the smooth radio host seductively hinting that someone needs to bring down The Man.
Somehow more obnoxious than the populace of Watch Dogs 2 and Sunset Overdrive combined, Payback's cast of dead-eyed characters spew line after line of moronic chatter, forced banter and blatant plot exposition at every opportunity. It becomes clear it's complete nonsense, and appears to be an act of self-sabotage by Ghost Games or EA or someone with a list of bad ideas they were insistent on making.
In its own bubble there's a reason for it to exist and it's a cool video game about racing, wrapped in a revenge plot.īut as soon as you put your foot down it's like someone's stuck a banana in the tailpipe. Somewhere, Need for Speed Payback makes absolute sense to someone.
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