Payday 2 | iLLGaming Review

Robbing banks and jewellery stores has always been fashionable. And Payday 2 picks up exactly from that point. You’re put in the shoes of one of the four in-game crooks – codenamed Dallas, Hoxton, Chains and Wolf, to perform a heist. And this group can be either random online strangers, your friends (friends are recommended), or the sheepish AI.

Together, you take on from a selection of available heist jobs on Payday2.net, the game’s online lobby. The number of jobs available are plenty, varying from a selection of heist jobs such as robbing jewellery stores, breaking valuables in a mall, stealing paintings and even planting drugs at a senator’s mansion; take your pick! Some jobs have higher paydays, but they carry a greater risk, other are easy but grant a lower pay. Failure to complete a job lands you no payment and meager experience points. The simplest of jobs are one-day affairs. Go in, loot whatever the eff you can, and get the hell out. Easy peasy, but the pay is limited. Complex jobs involve several stages, spread across multiple in-game days. There might be only a handful types in the heist jobs available, but random events within each job including random loot drops makes sure the experience doesn’t get too repetitive.