Payday 2: Crimewave Edition Reviews
The Crimewave Edition does too little to Payday 2 to make it a really worthwhile update.
Hilariously fun with friends, but avoidable otherwise. It's also the best deal on the game, containing all previously released DLC.
Payday 2: Crimewave Edition is fully loaded. New gameplay mechanics, solid controls, and John Wick.
Payday 2: Crimewave Edition isn't broken to the point of being unplayable, but it has just enough issues to make it annoying. While the dynamic, exciting gameplay that Payday fans have come to expect is certainly here, this port would have wound up better with a bit more polish and testing.
Payday 2: Crimewave Edition is the perfect game for current-gen owners who have always wanted to rob a bank, but never wanted to go to jail.
Fantastic game still marred by annoying issues
Payday 2: Crimewave Edition is an embarrassing, broken release that should be avoided by consumers and is a black eye on the current state of video game publishing.
I wish I had better things to say about 'Payday 2: Crimewave Edition'. On the surface it looks a lot like a less shiny 'Grand Theft Auto' with a heavy emphasis on co-op, but in the right circumstances it can be a fun experience. It has many of the common hallmarks of online games, right down to the leveling system, but there is just something about pulling off a slick bank job that is deeply satisfying. Still, until its broken multiplayer has been repaired, it's best to steer clear of this one.
Teamwork is very important in the Payday series and not one member of the team is expendable. Each Heist has your crew complete certain tasks so knowing your role is very important. Playing an average Heist good Payday players will have one person working the primary objective like working the drill, one person doing the secondary objective like finding extra loot, one rounding up Police officers and the last one laying down traps and securing an escape route. There's nothing better than executing the perfect Heist and I mean that!
Payday itself has become a very influential game, with other titles, such as Ubisoft's upcoming Tom Clancy's The Siege clearly cribbing ideas from it. I'd be cautiously interested in seeing a third Payday somewhere down the track, as I do think there's room for the developers to build a greater degree of narrative context into the action, and perhaps a touch more variety wouldn't go astray. For now, though, this is a fine multiplayer experience to have sitting on the PlayStation 4.