Need for Speed: Payback

Interesting story. Well, interesting enough for a racing game. It has mediocre car mechanics at best. Nothing new for a NFS game but that was never a surprise.

They have side missions too. Though I wouldn't call them that since you have to play them in order to actually get to play the main mission. I wouldn't care if I have to play every mission since I like to complete my game but in this case the side missions are so repetitive it ruins every good quality of this game. So you have this amazing mission with full adrenaline and expensive animation scenes and then you have like 100x of side missions where the goal is mostly the same and the animation looks like as if EA suddenly went for a low budget racing game from an Indie developer.

This probably shouldn't be a surprise for anyone but tuning your car looks like a casino. You have those colorful cards that drop randomly. You will unfortunately have to collect those, otherwise your car will be inferior towards other racing cars.