Denny Crane here to tell you to wait on buying this video game. We were told time and again, that this video game would be "released when it's ready." That's a phrase to indicate the video game developers want to take their time to get things right the first time. Meanwhile they finally departed from their original video game "engine" and finally utilized a respectable "engine" named Unreal; however they failed to actually utilize it.
The user interface ("UI") is ugly and horribly laid out. Options and features are hidden behind seemingly unrelated sub menus. The mission selection screen is just a long horizontal line you HAVE to scroll to bring up further missions onto your screen. And littered between the missions are separate little "videos" that tell the story, which I'll get to next.
These story "videos" are some of the laziest choices I have seen in a video game that supposed to be using an "engine" with such great capability. These "videos" are nothing more than still images (mostly in shadow) that just slowly pan along the image, add to the fact that the voice acting and dialog are weak. In one of these "videos" a new member is just added to the gang, to which the defacto leader simply says "welcome to the Payday gang." There is no story build up, no discussion between the remaining gang members about this new member.
Then there is the money. As normal you get paid at the end of every heist. However, that money is NOT your money. Instead you HAVE to turn your money into a... unique currency. This to me STINKS of an early on, introduced micro transaction (remember the safe fiasco) that they pivoted at the last second, too late into development. The money you get is worthless but instead has to be exchanged for special coin that is used to buy your weapons and cosmetics.
I would go over the positives but they aren't worth it because right now this video game is not worth buying. Avoid this video game for a while. Maybe give it some time to address these issues. Denny Crane.

Denny Crane here to tell you to wait on buying this video game. We were told time and again, that this video game would be "released when it's ready." That's a phrase to indicate the video game developers want to take their time to get things right the first time. Meanwhile they finally departed from their original video game "engine" and finally utilized a respectable "engine" named Unreal; however they failed to actually utilize it. The user interface ("UI") is ugly and horribly laid out. Options and features are hidden behind seemingly unrelated sub menus. The mission selection screen is just a long horizontal line you HAVE to scroll to bring up further missions onto your screen. And littered between the missions are separate little "videos" that tell the story, which I'll get to next. These story "videos" are some of the laziest choices I have seen in a video game that supposed to be using an "engine" with such great capability. These "videos" are nothing more than still images (mostly in shadow) that just slowly pan along the image, add to the fact that the voice acting and dialog are weak. In one of these "videos" a new member is just added to the gang, to which the defacto leader simply says "welcome to the Payday gang." There is no story build up, no discussion between the remaining gang members about this new member. Then there is the money. As normal you get paid at the end of every heist. However, that money is NOT your money. Instead you HAVE to turn your money into a... unique currency. This to me STINKS of an early on, introduced micro transaction (remember the safe fiasco) that they pivoted at the last second, too late into development. The money you get is worthless but instead has to be exchanged for special coin that is used to buy your weapons and cosmetics. I would go over the positives but they aren't worth it because right now this video game is not worth buying. Avoid this video game for a while. Maybe give it some time to address these issues. Denny Crane.