Need for Speed: Payback
"This explosive adventure is filled with intense heist missions, high stakes car battles, epic cop pursuits and jaw dropping set pieces. It’s blockbuster gameplay never before seen from the series, fueled by a…
Need for Speed: Payback is a racing developed by Ghost Games, released 10 November 2017 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Need for Speed: Payback is
Need for Speed: Payback is a racing game developed by Ghost Games and released in 2017. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Frostbite 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the city of Fortune Valley, skilled driver Tyler Morgan and his crewmates - off-roader Sean MacAllister, skilled spy Jessica Miller, and trusty mechanic Ravindra Chaudhry - live it up in the underground scene of street racing. However, after a job set by race fixer Lina Navarro ends in a shocking betrayal, Ty and his crew, partnered with "the Gambler" Marcus Weir, plot their revenge against the House, a nasty cartel running Fortune Valley's underground, by entering the Outlaw's Rush, a high-stakes street race where the elites race against each other. Action-packed chases, tight-knit street crews, and high-octane showdowns await in Fortune Valley. It's time...for PAYBACK!
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and open world. It supports multiplayer for up to 8 players online. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 57 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Need for Speed series
Need for Speed: Payback is the 77th of 84 entries we hold in the Need for Speed series. The next entry was Need for Speed: Payback - Speedcross Story in 2017. Its critic score of 54 is 20 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit - Limited Edition at 92.
How it was received
Need for Speed: Payback holds a critic score of 54 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 17 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 57, across 249 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
A full completion run takes around 18.5 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i3 6300 @ 3.8GHz or AMD FX 8150 @ 3.6GHz with 4 hardware threads, 6 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 750 Ti or AMD Radeon™ HD 7850 or equivalent DX11 compatible GPU with 2GB of memory. An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 30GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Need for Speed: Payback launched on 10 November 2017, within three weeks of Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Need for Speed: Payback yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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