

The map is absolutely HUGE! It is great fun to drive around this open world setting with the souped up cars at your disposal.

It has some great areas to drive around in, ranging from the rural, open desert landscape that makes up the outskirts of the main city to the smaller, more closed urban streets of Fortune City itself. Fortune Valley does have a lot going for it though in terms of being a racing setting.

That’s not to say that Fortune Valley is a bad setting, far from it, but it just doesn’t have the glitz and glamour of Vegas itself. It is a bit like Las Vegas but not as glamorous. Need for Speed: Payback takes place in the fictional county of Fortune Valley. The backtracking is welcome, but should it have gotten to this stage in the first place? That is a debate for another day, at the moment let’s just get back to Need for Speed. Two games have nearly faced ruin over some decisions made at the corporate level at Electronic Arts as they saw an easy way to make a lot more money. Need for Speed has received the same sort of treatment as Battlefront II, so it is easy to upgrade your car without spending any additional money. All the controversy surrounding the loot boxes in Need for Speed and Star Wars: Battlefront II have really affected the company’s already questionable image. Step up, Need for Speed: Payback.įirst things first, EA have not had a good time of late. What I really needed was an easy arcade racer with an easy progression system with some fast, fast action. Where I have enjoyed playing them, there was an awful lot to learn due to me not knowing my exhaust from my flux capacitor. Over the last couple of months, I have reviewed two quite full on racing games in F1 2017 and Project CARS 2. While I have no motivation at all to drive in the real world, driving in video games is quite fun. Many people over the years have tried to pique my interest, but none have succeeded. It is probably down to the fact I am more interested in the world paint drying championships than I am anything to do with cars. It is something that has never really bothered me, learning to drive. At the grand old age of the big three zero now, I have precisely accumulated zero hours of driving lessons.
