The game’s campaign will revolve around three characters: Tyler, Mac, and Jess. This time around, it’s the seedy criminal underbelly of Fortune Valley. We’ll drive around an open world as three different charactersĪs with the previous two games in the series, Need for Speed Payback will take players into an open world. That’s not the case in Need for Speed Payback - Ghost Games says the title will include a full single-player campaign, and you will be able to pause it while you play. Both Need for Speed: Rivals and the 2015 Need for Speed reboot included an always-online requirement, which meant that, even playing alone, players had to connect the games to the internet. Probably the biggest and most important tidbit from Ghost Games’ May announcement is that Payback won’t require an online connection to play. Here’s everything we know about Need for Speed Payback so far.

There are a few details floating around for Need for Speed Payback, including the game’s setting, characters, story, and some of its available vehicles. At EA’s first E3 event (read up on everything happening at E3 2017), we got a sneak peek at the death-defying action featured in Payback, as well as a taste of just how cinematic and over-the-top some of those action sequences can get, and EA gave us more information on the game and its characters in the following months. Developer Ghost Games is behind the wheel, and the next game, officially titled Need for Speed Payback, will get on the road this November. The Need for Speed series has spent the last two years in the garage, but Electronic Arts’ street-racing series looks like it’s about to hit the gas again.

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