Need for Speed Payback

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  1. C3ML1SH
    Jul 17, 2023
    5
    Map 8/10
    Cars 5/10
    Handling 6/10
    In-Game Purchases ( Release) 2/10
    Story 4/10
    Overall 5,0/10
  2. imalynxcat
    Jul 14, 2023
    6
    Araba yükseltmelerini neden şansa düşen kartlarla yapıyoruz ki? Dünyanın en anlamsız işi. Arkadaşlarımla oynarken eğlenceliydi, onun dışında vasat bir oyun.
  3. Izoeros
    Jan 4, 2023
    5
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  4. FiLToR
    Nov 26, 2022
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Мне в целом сюжет понравился, битвы с бандами, боссами и ТД. Цена большая, но и не силь отпугивает, как ни как AAA проект... На самом деле, игра своих денег не стоит...… Expand
  5. bar0yka
    Nov 3, 2022
    7
    hikaye o kadar da kötü değildi ve oynanış üresi de iyi ayrıca nfs 15 ten daha iyi mekanikleri vardı
  6. Aventa
    Sep 14, 2022
    7
    An overall pretty good game that isn't one of the best NFS but still enjoyable.
    The handling and physics are weird and sometimes do whatever it wants to do. The "brake to drift" gameplay doesnt always work, but with time I eventually managed to deal with it.
    The story is okay (at least better than in NFS Heat), we don't expect an incredible story for a NFS game anyway but this one is    An overall pretty good game that isn't one of the best NFS but still enjoyable.
    The handling and physics are weird and sometimes do whatever it wants to do. The "brake to drift" gameplay doesnt always work, but with time I eventually managed to deal with it.
    The story is okay (at least better than in NFS Heat), we don't expect an incredible story for a NFS game anyway but this one is good enough to create a good atmosphere when you race.
    The music is a hit or miss, some are nice, some aren't, but overall pretty good.
    The customization of car is good but I get why many players didn't like the performance upgrades with "cards" that you get with random stats. Also the way they make you have different cars for different types of races is not the best. Drag cars are terrible if you drive them in open world and some cars simply cant be bought in some categories. In my opinion, Heat did this feature better.    … Expand
  7. TURBO0-0
    Jul 29, 2022
    6
    Что могу сказать. Я не очень доволен по многим причинам.
    Физика,
    Ну такое себе. Дрифт в принципе хороший. 8/10. Грип нормальный, но могло быть лучше 6,5/10. Бездорожье это пиздец... От любого столкновения тебя отправляют на чекпоинт. Машины как пушинки, не чувствуется масса. Постоянно подлетают и тд. 3/10 Дрэг как дрэг, его сложно испортить. 9/10 Погоня хорошая очень интересно раскрывает    Что могу сказать. Я не очень доволен по многим причинам.
    Физика,
    Ну такое себе. Дрифт в принципе хороший. 8/10. Грип нормальный, но могло быть лучше 6,5/10. Бездорожье это пиздец... От любого столкновения тебя отправляют на чекпоинт. Машины как пушинки, не чувствуется масса. Постоянно подлетают и тд. 3/10 Дрэг как дрэг, его сложно испортить. 9/10 Погоня хорошая очень интересно раскрывает сюжет. 8,5/10
    общая оценка физике 7/10
    Карта.
    Сейчас начинается изнасилование... Это блять полный пиздец. Ёбаный коридор кроме центра карты где аэродром. Мне в принципе не понравилась карта из-за хуёвой жёлто-оранжево-красной палитры цветов. Если ты хочешь поехать куда-то налево ты не поедешь, ибо там невидимая стена. И по этому карта на 70% это коридор. Особенно это пиздец в гонках по бездорожью ибо повсюду мелкие камни по которым ехать нельзя из-за невидимой стены, но они такие маленькие, что ты не понимаешь это мусор на дороге или это граница дороги.
    4/10
    Сюжет.
    Он слишком растянут. Я бы его сократил на 30%. Все этапы сюжета это просто копипаст с разными именами и цифрами. Из кринжа могу выделить негров-дрифтеров-хареров-коммунистов, Офроуд-армейских-фемок, и инстаграм-твич стримерш-гоншиц. На этом кринж всё. Шулер вообще интересный чел. Один из самых интересных вместе с этой бабой которая даёт задания погони ближе к концу игры, ездит на тёмном панамеро. И на это всё. Оценка сюжету 6,5/10 не впечатлил он меня.
    Машинки.
    Внешний тюнинг идентичен нфс 2015 но в хите лучше. И на мой взгляд в хите тюнинг лучше чем в форзе хорайзен 4. На счёт форзы хорайзен 5 ничего сказать не могу, ещё не играл. Система этих карточек хуйня полнейшая.
    оценка тюнигу внешнему 8/10. Карточкам 0/10    … Expand
  8. Medic7345
    Feb 13, 2022
    6
    The time I spent playing this game: 10 hrs 40 mins

    I loved the graphics of this game. Also, it continued to be a pleasant challenge to drive, and I was able to adapt my skills as the game went on. The story mode is entertaining, and the graphics for the story mode are pleasing. The game is played with the left hand, and the right hand on the mouse does nothing. I found this somewhat    The time I spent playing this game: 10 hrs 40 mins

    I loved the graphics of this game. Also, it continued to be a pleasant challenge to drive, and I was able to adapt my skills as the game went on. The story mode is entertaining, and the graphics for the story mode are pleasing.

    The game is played with the left hand, and the right hand on the mouse does nothing. I found this somewhat limiting to my hand-eye coordination enjoyment. The multiplayer was dead primarily and probably an aspect of this game that should have fallen off a few years ago. I attended about 4 or 5 races with users, but it took hours to find the users on the multiplayer. The races are limited to about eight cars. It is also worth noting that my computer is a new PC model, and it had some struggles running this program. I had to have max fans on to prevent overheating in my CPU, which makes my computer sound like a jet engine... lol sort of. This is mainly due to the high graphics in this game, but it could also be lousy programming. I left this game happy that playing it was over.    … Expand
  9. rezo_21
    Sep 18, 2021
    5
    ====================IIIIIIIIII GAME SCORE : 50 IIIIIIIIII====================NP
  10. dikii_hohol
    Jun 6, 2021
    5
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  11. shoma-
    Apr 25, 2021
    7
    Если играть сейчас, (делюкс игра стим) то игра намного лучше. чем тогда. Фармить спидкарты не нужно, я проехал сюжетку на 10 машинах ,проблем с прокачкой не было, гонки переигрывал раза 3 макс. Обрадовала шумовая бомба в этой игре, что неожиданно (привет, Pro Street!) . Неплохая игрушка с красивыми и ЗАПОМИНАЮЩИМИСЯ сюжетными миссиями. Спидкросс (дополнение) вообще напомнило мне DiRT:Если играть сейчас, (делюкс игра стим) то игра намного лучше. чем тогда. Фармить спидкарты не нужно, я проехал сюжетку на 10 машинах ,проблем с прокачкой не было, гонки переигрывал раза 3 макс. Обрадовала шумовая бомба в этой игре, что неожиданно (привет, Pro Street!) . Неплохая игрушка с красивыми и ЗАПОМИНАЮЩИМИСЯ сюжетными миссиями. Спидкросс (дополнение) вообще напомнило мне DiRT: Showdown. В общем, удачного вам прохождения!… Expand
  12. yeezymane
    Apr 1, 2021
    6
    Графика - 7/10
    Игровой процесс - 5/10
    Сюжет - 5/10
    Музыка - 6/10
  13. MrPajamas
    Mar 31, 2021
    7
    A few years have passed and EA is classically serving us another part of its Need for Speed ​​racing series. Although the previous episode from 2015 did not receive much positive feedback, I liked the game and therefore I will not lie that I was looking forward to the new episode and I can happily say that this is another Payback episode of the series. Need for Speed: Payback will give usA few years have passed and EA is classically serving us another part of its Need for Speed ​​racing series. Although the previous episode from 2015 did not receive much positive feedback, I liked the game and therefore I will not lie that I was looking forward to the new episode and I can happily say that this is another Payback episode of the series. Need for Speed: Payback will give us daylight at the beginning, but it won't take long and we will see night darkness right away. I am very happy for this change, because I like it when these factors change. Day and night have their charm. But what pleased me most about the game is the map itself. The locations here are luxurious, because we will see both a city that is beautiful and a desert, and I love the desert. We play nice songs in all this and I have to say that one is completely etched in my memory and captures the atmosphere of the game for me and it's Barns Courtney - Kicks. After all, this song plays at the beginning of the game, where it immediately introduces you to one character and then others. Yes, in Need for Speed: Payback you play for more characters. What I think is great is that we have seen both classic street races in the city and desert Offroad races, and I would even call some heists where we just do something in the story, but I won't break it down or spoiler it. Having already mentioned the spoiler, let's move on to a slightly different one, the one meant for the car. In other words, I'm going to tuning now. It is almost the same as the one in 2015. In my opinion, it is not to the detriment, because the tuning in the previous game came to me so perfect that there is nothing to change on it. As in the previous game, if you don't want to win extra with tuning, you can use community-created ones, which are often beautiful, and in the last part I used it on Skyline in the form of tuning from the movie Fast and Furious 2 or I he had the BMW look from Need for Speed: Most Wanted from 2005 applied, so I've praised the whole game so far, and there's only one thing that has caused quite a stir after the release. We are talking about tuning, although not about the appearance, but purely about the performance of the car. In the game, you do not buy improvements for the game currency in the form of money for races, but for cards that will improve your car. The change is quite strange, because I myself do not know whether to praise or flock. Most people took it as another attempt at gambling, but I personally didn't mind. I'm not saying I welcome this change, and I'd probably like to return tuning in the form of spending money, but on the one hand, I commend the developers for trying to make a change, and honestly, I didn't mind this news at all. To sum it up. Since Need for Speed ​​from 2015, in my opinion, the authors have caught the right wave and the series is in full beauty for me again, although of course the fame it had during the times of Undergrounds or Most Wanted is long gone, so in my opinion Payback is a great sequel. and most importantly, I would almost forget to mention that you finally don't have to be connected to the internet, as was the case in the previous part. So a great game for me, which I can recommend. Maybe it's a pity that we can't have neon lights in the game when it's already that night.… Expand
  14. Mehrshad_MB
    Feb 2, 2021
    6
    It was such a big surprise for me to see all these ratings. Yes, NFS: Payback wasn't incredible, but I don't think it deserves this much hate.
    Customizing car was one the greatest feature in game, there were so many options for designing cars. Categorizing cars into Racing, Off-road, Drag, Runner and Draft was kinda cool.
    The story, however, was so cliché and easy-to-guess. It looked    It was such a big surprise for me to see all these ratings. Yes, NFS: Payback wasn't incredible, but I don't think it deserves this much hate.
    Customizing car was one the greatest feature in game, there were so many options for designing cars. Categorizing cars into Racing, Off-road, Drag, Runner and Draft was kinda cool.
    The story, however, was so cliché and easy-to-guess. It looked like the devs just made the story, so that the game don't seem hollow and aimless. The cards system was a terrible idea.
    Eventually, it's the game that can seem exciting and cool at first, but it gets boring over time.
    (January 2021)    … Expand
  15. K3V1N-1995
    Jan 21, 2021
    6
    The Good
    -This game is actually Casino Racing Game and it's NFS High Stakes Reboot
    -but it's my favorite game for my PC The Neutral -Performance Parts of Speedcard is most likely a casino machine -Selling Speedcard for Money and Token is Fine to Farming Races The Bad -These graphics looks Downgrade as Ubisoft Deal isn't good (as you can see there 1 Poster around the Garage) -i    The Good
    -This game is actually Casino Racing Game and it's NFS High Stakes Reboot
    -but it's my favorite game for my PC

    The Neutral
    -Performance Parts of Speedcard is most likely a casino machine
    -Selling Speedcard for Money and Token is Fine to Farming Races

    The Bad
    -These graphics looks Downgrade as Ubisoft Deal isn't good (as you can see there 1 Poster around the Garage)
    -i saw jess's hair in E3 2017
    -Cloud is minimum
    -Soundtrack makes me Terrible and Boring
    -Ferrari isn't the game

    The Ugly
    -Toyota Anti-Video game Campaign since in 2016 before Released all Racing Games
    -Microtransactions is Terrible for the Most Likely game of NFS World is an online game as Card Packs    … Expand
  16. dimike
    Jan 10, 2021
    6
    Graphics - ok
    Handling - bad
    Music - ok
    story - ok
    stability - normal
    performance tuning - nightmare
  17. Lattely
    Nov 27, 2020
    5
    Nothing to say. Nerve cells don't regenerate so I can only say thank you to the developers of this game.
  18. kimi1775
    Nov 9, 2020
    7
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  19. iPabog
    Aug 9, 2020
    6
    Геймплей 6/10
    Звук-музыка 5/10
    Графика 5/10
    Интерфейс и управление: 6/10
    Реиграбельность: на пару раз поиграть
    Классный сюжет (нет)
    Оригинальность отстутствует
    Фанатам классических НФС не зайдет, но попробовать стоит
  20. LironesAlviento
    Aug 2, 2020
    6
    Juego entretenido para los que les guste algo sin complicaciones, si esperas grandes cambios en la saga o algo de conducción realista este no es tu juego.
  21. dogertyyyyy
    Jun 30, 2020
    6
    Ужасный онлайн (почти полное отсутствие игроков в EU мультиплеере Speedlist как таковых), после прохождения сингла в игре нечего делать абсолютно. Графика не является чем-то новым и передовым, по личным ощущениям она на порядок хуже Forz'ы (Horizon 4/3). В All Drive: Hangout нечего делать, карта пустует.Ужасный онлайн (почти полное отсутствие игроков в EU мультиплеере Speedlist как таковых), после прохождения сингла в игре нечего делать абсолютно. Графика не является чем-то новым и передовым, по личным ощущениям она на порядок хуже Forz'ы (Horizon 4/3). В All Drive: Hangout нечего делать, карта пустует.
  22. eilhanz
    Feb 13, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Language: Turkish

    Fena değil ama bazı özellikleri kötü denilebilir. Bu oyun bana "Hızlı ve Öfkeli'yi" andırıyor ve hiç NFS tadı yok neredeyse. Para kazanılması oldukça zor ve para kasarken bir müddet sonra canınızı sıkıyor ama "Cheat Engine" ile çözebilirsiniz.

    Multiplayer iyi denilebilir fakat emoji ile konuşma dışında başka bir şey olmaması rezalet. Multiplayerda keşke yazışma olsaydı ve biraz daha fazla oyuncu sayısı olsaydı 12-16 oyuncu gibi. Yarış yapma modu var ve serbest takılma modu var. Biraz daha bunları geliştirseler daha iyi olurdu.

    Hikaye modu olması iyi ve kaliteli gibi ama biraz kısa ve kolay kalmış gibi gözüküyor. Oyunun güzel tarafı zaten hikaye modu. Hikaye modunda GTA V'teki gibi 3 karakter olması hoşuma gitti ve hikayelerde heyecan hissi verebiliyor.

    Grafik ve detay ise 2017 yılına göre iyi sayılır ve seslere hayran kaldım. Özellikle Dodge'un V10 ve Buick'in V6 sesine. Sesler oldukça gerçekçi. Oyunda insan detayı hem hikaye modunda, hem de multiplayerda mevcut. Tek eksiği bazı ses detaylarının ufaktan daha iyi yapsalardı güzel olacaktı.

    Araba ve modifiye sanırsam en kötüsü diyebilirim. Çünkü bazı meşhur arabalar eksik ve ücretli. Modifiye tam bir kabus. Neonları, kornaları, süspansiyonu ve nitro rengini sadece "shipments'ten" alınıyor. Çok az parçalar var ve NFSU2 modifiye konusunda NFS PB'yi ezer geçer kesinlikle.

    Sonuç olarak artık şuna varabiliriz:

    Grafik ve Detay: 8/10
    Modifiye: 3/10
    Hikaye: 8/10
    Multiplayer: 6/10
    Ek özellikler: 4/10    … Expand
  23. showt
    Dec 9, 2019
    6
    Как по мне хорошие гонки, с каким никаким сюжетом. Маловато было погонь и угонов как в презентационом трейлере, это прям разочаровало, и дурацкие карточки , боже..это худшее что можно было придумать в гонках.
  24. sashok9026
    Nov 29, 2019
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Far from the worst races, but when you realize that these are races from the "need for speed" series, then you expect something higher than in this game.
    of the pros, I can note:
    1) normal number of different machines
    2) a good plot for a game from the genre of race
    3) normal graphics
    4) a large number of visual tuning
    of the minuses:
    1) tuning cars using cards. I absolutely did not like this idea.
    2) a small career. I went through a career in just 25 hours
    3) Often it is required to replay already completed races in order to get cards for improving the car, or money for another car.
    If you are an avid racing player or "need for speed", then the game, for you, should be like. If racing is not the best genre for you, then it is better to skip this game.    … Expand
  25. scurpiun77
    Nov 6, 2019
    7
    Gameplay 1/2
    Music 2/2
    Story 1/2
    Characters design 1/1
    graphic 2/2
    Good game but not good need for speed game!!!
  26. EpicSurvivor
    Aug 25, 2019
    7
    I honestly want to give this game a 6.5 NFS 2015 was way better than this a true NFS game at is core, I loved it. But Payback is very different. It doesn't really feel like a NFS game at all. Don't get me wrong for $5 is a great fun arcade racing game but just not a great NFS game. Origin has it on Sale for $5 pretty often for that price is recommended. But not anything more than that.
  27. gold
    Aug 6, 2019
    7
    Сюжет классический для гонок, приятная карта, никак не изменившееся графика, годные треки имеются.
    Итог: 7.890/10
  28. TheGameIsALie
    Oct 5, 2018
    5
    Need for Speed Payback apenas dá seguimento à fórmula de seus predecessores. Apesar de uma história muito fraca, consegue te deixar entretido por horas com suas variadas provas e missões.
  29. Skillborne
    Mar 31, 2018
    6
    The best Need for Speed yet.

    Ghost has really put lots of efforts into this game. There are so many different things you can do and all of them are fun (explore the world and find collectables, drift, drag, offroad, racing or escape from cops). Never-seen ways of progression make the tuning more interesting. Instead of just buying every upgrade with ingame currency, you have to play to    The best Need for Speed yet.

    Ghost has really put lots of efforts into this game. There are so many different things you can do and all of them are fun (explore the world and find collectables, drift, drag, offroad, racing or escape from cops). Never-seen ways of progression make the tuning more interesting. Instead of just buying every upgrade with ingame currency, you have to play to unlock visual customization and get the best performance out of your car. There‘s even an online-ranking mode, in which you can compare yourself with others and show off your rides.

    You can unlock everything by just playing, so the microtransactions are totally ok.
    Each level up you unlock a few style items (Nitrous color, tire smoke, underglow, air suspension and horns). I mean, how cool is that?

    The beautiful diverse world and nice sound + music create just the perfect atmosphere to enjoy the game.

    -4 Points for miserable performance.
    (try disabling shader cache and origin overlay)    … Expand
  30. Tomle1202
    Mar 24, 2018
    6
    The sense of momentum and urgency is rarely found in Need for Speed Payback, making this already-tiresome experience a chore, especially with its inclusion of microtransaction.
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Mar 2, 2018
    79
    In an effort to make players shell out for microtransactions, developers ramped up the difficulty, which led to a surprisingly enjoyable result – it’s the first time we get a relatively difficult NFS in recent years. [Issue#226, p.44]
  2. Gamersky
    Jan 21, 2018
    75
    NFS: Payback is full of defects, such as the boring story, highly repetitive missions, useless open world design, and annoying microtransactions. However, it is not terrible enough to get a fail score. This game contains exaggerated and cool controls, exhilarating car chasing, and fascinating background music. If you also enjoy the passionate scenes of the Fast & Furious movie series just like I do, I think you will love this game anyway.
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  3. Games.cz
    Jan 21, 2018
    40
    The new game from the Need for Speed series does not respect your time at all. You should pay it back the same and don´t lose any moment with it. Unprepared and unbalanced free to play mechanics with a strong gambling part destroy otherwise quite usable and somewhat entertaining, though not very interesting arcade.
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