Payday: The Heist
Payday: The Heist is an action filled first person shooter that lets players take on the role of a hardened career criminal executing intense, dynamic heists in constant pursuit of the next “big score”. Load…
Payday: The Heist is a shooter developed by Overkill Software, released 18 October 2011 on PlayStation 3 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $3.29 at Steam. The main story takes about 20 hrs to finish.
What Payday: The Heist is
Payday: The Heist is a shooter game developed by Overkill Software and released in 2011. It was published by Daybreak Game Company. It is available on PlayStation 3 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Diesel.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Payday: The Heist is a cooperative first-person shooter game developed by Overkill Software and published by Sony Online Entertainment. The game was released for the PlayStation 3 in North America on 18 October 2011, and in Europe on 2 November. It was released then for Windows on 20 October. It is the first game in the Payday series.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 56 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Payday: The Heist holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 5 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 71, across 150 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 20 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $3.29, that works out to about $0.16 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium 4 3 GHz / AMD Athlon XP 3400+, 1 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX / ATI Radeon X1900. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB. 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 costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.29 at Steam, 67% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Payday: The Heist launched on 18 October 2011, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Battlefield 3 and Super Mario 3D Land. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Battlefield 3, Super Mario 3D Land.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Payday: The Heist yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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