Need For Speed: Payback On Your Wallet and Soul

There is only one true way to describe Need For Speed: Payback as compared to the excellent Forza Motorsport 7. Imagine a car with bullet holes flattening all of the tires, the windshield wipers and transmission smashed apart, and the engine busted into a compost pile! First of all, the biggest red flag in racing game history, quite possibly in the most asinine move ever, Need For Speed: Payback HAS NO STEERING WHEEL PERIPHERAL SUPPORT!!!!

The graphics are pretty to look at in Need For Speed: Payback, but that is all that is even semi-decent about this pile of complete dogshit. Forza Motorsport 7 has bad-ass unlock-able cars! Need For Speed: Payback liters your gaming experience thanks to Electronic Arts (cancer) with...you guessed it! LOOT BOX PROGRESSION SYSTEM AND SHITTY MICRO-TRANSACTIONS FOR COSMETIC UPGRADES!!! SCREW YOU EA SERIOUSLY SCREW YOU!!!  

No ability to progress for you unless you fork over hard-earned money, or grind for hour upon tedious hour on the same boring race tracks again and again, with zero incentives for replay-ability! DID WE AS GAMERS NOT MAKE IT VERY CLEAR THAT WE HATE GRINDING, LOOT DROPS, AND POINTLESS MICROTRANSACTIONS?! 

The single-player mode is a joke! Stereotypical racers with one-dimensional personalities you won't give a fuck about. The cinematics goes on for hours, and you CANNOT SKIP THEM AT ALL!!! And then when you get to the racing, you realize the cars handle so poorly that all the fun is gone! While the tracks are so boring and poorly designed that you're going to throw your fucking controller out the window! 

This game steals everything from Forza and then downgrades it. Graphics are nowhere near as crisp, the cars handle like dogshit (NO STEERING WHEEL SUPPORT ARE YOU KIDDING ME EA?!?!), and boring linear race tracks with no innovation. 

Everything about Need For Speed: Payback screams shitty cash-in and it is an insulting mess of a game. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT EVER BUY THIS PIECE OF TRASH!!! The greedy loot boxes and micro-transactions alone, combined with a carbon inferior copy of Forza with no Steering Wheel peripheral support makes this a garbage product.

Final Verdict:
Graphics: 7/10
Gameplay: 1/10
Sound: 3/10
Replay-ability: 2/10
Overall: 2/10 (Garbage)