| Need for Speed Payback | |
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Cover art featuring a Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R V·Spec, BMW M5 and Chevrolet Bel Air Sport Coupe 265 V8 escaping from the police. | |
| Developer(s) | Ghost Games |
| Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts |
| Director(s) | William Ho |
| Producer(s) |
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| Designer(s) | Riley Cooper |
| Artist(s) | Abdul Khaliq |
| Writer(s) | |
| Composer(s) | Joseph Trapanese |
| Series | Need for Speed |
| Engine | Frostbite 3 |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows PlayStation 4 Xbox One |
| Release | November 10, 2017 |
| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Need for Speed Payback is a racing video game developed by Ghost Games and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It is the twenty-third installment in the Need for Speed series. The game was revealed with a trailer released on June 2, 2017 and released worldwide on November 10, 2017[1], and was followed up by Need for Speed Heat.
Gameplay[edit]
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- Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2 by Electronic Arts, Inc. Is the sixth installment of the popular car racing video game Need For Speed. As there is no version of Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2 for Mac available for download, you can try other car racing games that are suitable for Mac.
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Need for Speed Payback is a racing game set in an open world environment of Fortune Valley; a fictional version of Las Vegas, Nevada. It is focused on 'action driving' and has three playable characters (each with different sets of skills) working together to pull off action movie like sequences. In contrast with the previous game, it also features a 24-hour day-night cycle.[2] Unlike the 2015 Need for Speed reboot, Payback includes an offline single-player mode.[3]
Need for Speed: Payback features a total of 74 vehicles, with downloadable contents. Toyota, Scion and Ferrari do not feature in the game due to licensing issues. However, the Subaru BRZ appears in the game.[4]Aston Martin, Audi, Buick, Jaguar, Koenigsegg, Land Rover, Mercury, Mini, Pagani, and Plymouth make their return after their absence from the 2015 installment, while Alfa Romeo, Infiniti, Mini and Pontiac were added via downloadable content.
Plot[edit]
Tyler 'Ty' Morgan (Jack Derges), Sean 'Mac' McAlister (David Ajala), Jessica 'Jess' Miller (Jessica Madsen) and mechanic Ravindra 'Rav' Chaudhry (Ramon Tikaram) are part of a crew in Silver Rock, Fortune Valley. Fixer Lina Navarro (Dominique Tipper) tasks them with stealing a precious Koenigsegg Regera belonging to Marcus 'The Gambler' Weir. Tyler steals the car and evades the police. However, as he arrives at the drop point, he finds Rav knocked out. Lina appears, revealing that she set up Tyler and his crew to take the fall for the stolen car and she drives away, leaving them at the mercy of the oncoming police force. Tyler leads the police away from his crew and runs into The Gambler, who demands his car back. On learning that Lina betrayed both of them, Weir is angry and decides to leave Tyler to be arrested, but changes his mind and asks him to come with him so that he can be protected from being arrested.
Six months later, Tyler is working as a valet for Weir. As he delivers his car to his casino, Tyler spots Lina threatening Weir to hand over the casino to The House, a cartel who controls Fortune Valley's underworld. Tyler considers going after her, but Weir advises him to bide his time. Frustrated at the lack of progress, he decides to take matters into his own hands. Contacting The House as a racer, he enters a race and wins it, despite Lina having rigged the race for profit. Lina tries to have him taken out, but fails. Weir proposes Tyler a way to take down The House and Lina along with it. Tyler is to enter and win 'The Outlaw's Rush', a massive street racing event that has the nation's top racers participating, which The House plans to rig for their own ends. Tyler reassembles his old crew and they successfully defeat all rivaling racing leagues and are thus allowed to enter 'The Outlaw's Rush'. Simultaneously, Jess infiltrates the House and learns of their plans to take over the entire city.
At 'The Outlaw's Rush', Tyler manages to win both the street and the offroad event with the help off all the race crews they allied with during the game, and in the end, defeats Navarro herself. Thus, Navarro and 'The Collector' are defeated and the House's hold over Silver Rock is broken.
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In a post-credits scene, Mr. Kobashi, a customer whom Jess had driven, calls Weir and tells him his gamble worked, and that 'The Collector' is finished. He welcomes Weir to Arkwright, the true power behind the House.
Development[edit]
In January 2016, Ghost Games began development on the next Need for Speed game to be released in 2017.[5][better source needed]Electronic Arts later confirmed in their January 2017 earnings call that the next game in the franchise was in development and set to be launched during EA's fiscal year 2018 (Comprising from April 2017 to March 2018).[6]
Reception[edit]
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Need for Speed Payback received 'mixed or average' reviews from critics, according to review aggregatorMetacritic.[8][9][7]
Luke Reilly of IGN praised Electronic Arts for repairing the problems of the game's predecessor, Need for Speed, but criticized its 'scripted' story, lack of police chases during free roam, scripted police chases, loot box-like mechanisms during customization, poor car handling, unrealistic car damage and several other issues.[13]PC World criticized the game for being full of microtransactions, the severely limited customizability of cars, gameplay mechanics, a lack of cockpit view and several more issues, and compared it harshly to the Forza Horizon series.[15]
According to The NPD Group, Payback was the eighth best-selling title in the United States in November 2017.[16]
| Year | Award | Category | Result | Ref |
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| 2017 | Game Critics Awards | Best Racing Game | Nominated | [17] |
| Gamescom 2017 | Best Racing Game | Nominated | [18] | |
| 2018 | National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards | Song Collection | Nominated | [19] |
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References[edit]
- ^McCormick, Rich (June 2, 2017). 'EA's new Need for Speed: Payback looks very fast and fairly furious'. The Verge. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
- ^Reilly, Luke (June 2, 2017). 'Need For Speed Payback Looks Faster, More Furious'. IGN. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
- ^Yin-Poole, Wesley (May 10, 2017). 'The New Need for Speed Lets You Play Single-Player Offline'. Eurogamer. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
- ^'Toyota's absence from the game was confirmed on Reddit'.
- ^'Under the Hood #7'. Ghost Games. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ^Dornbush, Jonathon (31 January 2017). 'EA CONFIRMS NEW NEED FOR SPEED WILL BE OUT IN NEXT FISCAL YEAR'. IGN.com. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
- ^ ab'Need for Speed Payback for PC Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
- ^ ab'Need for Speed Payback for PlayStation 4 Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
- ^ ab'Need for Speed Payback for Xbox One Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
- ^Carsillo, Ray (November 7, 2017). 'Need for Speed Payback review'. Electronic Gaming Monthly. EGM Media, LLC. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
- ^Wakeling, Richard (November 6, 2017). 'Need for Speed Payback Review'. GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
- ^Loveridge, Sam (November 7, 2017). 'Need for Speed Payback review: 'Silly, over the top and a little bit self-indulgent, but in a fantastic action movie way.''. GamesRadar. Future plc. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
- ^ abReilly, Luke (November 6, 2017). 'Need for Speed Payback Review'. IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
- ^Good, Owen S. (November 11, 2017). 'Need for Speed Payback review'. Polygon. Vox Media. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
- ^Dingman, Hayden (November 10, 2017). 'Need for Speed: Payback review: Pouring loot boxes on a tire fire'. PC World. International Data Group. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
- ^Makuch, Eddie (December 14, 2017). 'Top 20 Best-Selling Games In The US For November 2017'. GameSpot. CBS Interactive.
- ^'Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2017 (2017 Nominees)'. Game Critics Awards. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
- ^Khan, Zubi (August 21, 2017). 'Gamescom 2017 Award Nominees'. CGM. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
- ^'Nominee List for 2017'. Archived from the original on 2018-02-15. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
External links[edit]
- Need for Speed Payback at MobyGames
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The changes:
-First Pinkslips: All 7 cars been replaced by the pre-tuned variants of the ones you race against.
-Second Pinkslip: Both Audi TT and Charger SRT8 been replaced by their pre-tuned variants that you steal in the prior mission.
-Third Pinkslip: Stock Challenger '71 been replaced by the pre-tuned Charger '69, and all other cars with their correct pre-tuned variants you race against.
-Fourth Pinkslip: All cars been replaced by the last 4 cars you steal for G-Mac (Corvette Z06, McLaren F1, Ford GT, Bugatti Veyron)
-Fifth Pinkslip: Replaced Chase's M6 with the Audi S5 you use in one of the missions - I don't think it makes sense that you get to keep the car she drives away with
Installation:
1. Open NFS-VltEd
2. Go to 'File > Import > ModScript'
3. Select 'pinkslips.nfsms' in the file you just downloaded
4. After NFS-VltEd is done making it's changes, go to 'File > Save'
5. Done
IMPORTANT NOTES:
-This mod was done and tested on 1.0.1.18, I haven't tested how it works on other versions, so use it at your own risk in them.
-You'll need to start a new savegame if you want to get the proper pinkslip cars from this mod, this mod doesn't alter your past rewards from your current savegames
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-My boy nfsu360 for making NFS-VltEd and making this mod possible.
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