You can even get inside help, provided one of your crew has the correct perk.
#Payday 3 review driver
A better getaway driver means less chance of a crash during your escape, which in turn means you won’t have to play an extra level of fending off waves of cops while you wait for a new escape vehicle, potentially costing you some of your hard-earned loot if you can’t move all the bags in time. Maybe you want the thermal drill left in a specific spot, or a set of keys that could gain you access the vault much quicker. Larger missions give you access to the pre-planning phase where you get the chance to examine the buildings blue prints and then grab some helpful perks that cost both money and favors to pull off.
These range from simple things like someone leaving a bag of ammo around or window being helpfully left unlocked, to things like parking a tall van next to a gallery so you can scamper up to the roof a little easier. The best plans can crumble as players argue about what to do, or somebody slips up, or just plain bad luck intervenes.īefore you get into the mission proper there’s often a chance to purchase a few helpful assets. Every player is important to the mission – one needs to keep an eye on the equipment, another needs to grab the loose jewelry, cash or cocaine, another needs to keep the crowd in check and the last one might want to lay down some defenses. Meanwhile there’s always the allure of extra loot to contend with, money that you can grab if you hang around just that little bit longer, risking more dangerous waves of enemies in the process. It creates a palpable sense of tension as you and your team gun down the incoming hordes, barely fending off special units and SWAT teams in the name of grabbing cash.
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Most heists involve a lot of waiting around, and possibly screaming at the screen for the damn drill to hurry the hell up. The two keys to it all are tension and greed everything takes plenty of time, like drilling into a safe, and equipment is constantly failing, requiring help from the players. Some heists are simple, short and sweet, and others entail several different objectives and can last quite a while. Unlike both Invisible Inc and The Mastermind, though, where screwing up is a bad thing, Payday 2 feels more like it wants to replicate the mayhem of a job gone gloriously wrong with the added benefit of friends being along for the ride.įour player co-op action is the name of the game here, tasking you with robbing banks, cracking safes, rigging elections, defusing bombs and even cooking up crystal meth, all while usually fending off waves of police intent on introducing your face to their bullets.
#Payday 3 review Pc
Today it’s Payday 2: Crimewave Edition, a current-gen re-release of a game that I sadly missed out on when it was first brought out for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC last year. So this week I’ve been pretty happy to have three titles in for review that based around doing just that. Perhaps it’s the simple pleasure of watching a group of highly talented people execute an unrealistic yet complicated heist in fantastic style.
What is it that makes the idea of a perfectly executed heist so wonderfully compelling? I don’t have an answer to that question, but like so many other people I’ve long been enamored with movies, games and books that focus on a gang of criminal masterminds pulling off daring raids.
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