PayDay 2 Review

Hey gays and gals have you ever dreamed of having lots of cash or robbing a bank then fighting your way though swat teams and police? if so then Pay day is just around the corner.

PayDay 2 is one of the games that you either love or hate and for me personally Iv'e been looking forward to this since it's announcement. The first PayDay when it was released had a cult following until  PayDay was part of a steam sale where it again exploded in popularity, whether  it was the fact that you could rob a bank without facing the the police in real life I don't know , all I know is that the first PayDay was bloody amazing and PayDay 2 capitalises on this success in a big way. 

 First things first if you are going to rake in the cash in PayDay 2 you will have to think and act smart for unlike its predecessor you can't go in running and gunning...well you can but you won't get as much cash than if you went all ninja like. Payday 2 rewards thoughtful behaviour for if you can get in and out without alerting the guards then you will be buying upgrades for your guns left right and centre but this is always difficult for the objective locations are randomized. 

The randomization adds a great challenge every time you start a new game from security cameras being moved to entire rooms being in different positions. However this can cause some glitches for instance after a swat team had ambushed me and my fellow players carried 10 bags of shall we say illegal substance to one place only to find out that the door to the van to collect the goods had disappeared, we then had to fight our way though one of many assault phases to get the bags to a different location so we could try to outsmart the glitch and I can say that my heart was pounding as the adrenaline coursed though my veins as we tried to outsmart the glitch.

PayDay 2 is one of the best online team games I've played in a long time 

One of the most iconic aspects of the PayDay series is the famous masks and this return with a vengeance in PayDay 2. Masks in PayDay 2 can be customized from the patterns and colours that are provided to you and these can be found via cards that you pick after each mission but these cards or also random so you might get some money or a attachment for one of your guns but these still need to be paid for so in PayDay 2 cash is your worst and best friend.

Now the days of shared cash and XP have gone for in PayDay 2 each is now separate from each other and by that I mean you like any other FPS you gain XP from completing your objective and not by collecting cash a system which I miss. Also new are the skills which as you level-up can be purchased via points which can range from skills costing 1 point to 4 then on top of that you can ace these skills to make them generally better for example getting a skill that can leave you carry bags faster then by "aceing" or upgrading that skill you can throw loot bags further.

PayDay 2 is worth its weight in gold whilst in multiplayer however if you decided to venture into single player you will be met with AI that just doesn't know what to do, these AI partners don't interact
with loot bags or any objectives this can leave you feeling frustrated and basically it's just not playable. As said though the multiplayer is one of the enjoyable and heart pounding that I have played but It's not with out its faults which are really few and far between.