Need for Speed Payback

Need for Speed: Payback has flashes of brilliance, but they’re held back by a myriad of poor design & narrative choices. 0

Need for Speed Payback(Xbox One) by thefakepsychic on November 19, 2017

Venerable street racing series Need for Speed has offered arcade-style racing thrills since 1994. Since then, the series has gone through multiple evolutions and refinements, from the cops-and-robbers gameplay of Hot Pursuit to the first glimpses at open world driving in Underground 2. Current series helmspeople Ghost Games’ latest, Need for Speed: Payback, a vaguely crime-adjacent thriller that’s lacking in both crime and thrills, simply doesn’t hold up to the series’ st...