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Need For Speed To Get An Online ‘Free Roam’ Mode

January 2, 2018 by Jordan Coetsee

Coming sometime this year.

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EA’s Need For Speed Payback has been confirmed to receive an online free roam mode. Previously, the mode was only available to those waiting for a lobby to fill up. However, with the new implementation, you’ll have the freedom to roam the streets of Fortune Valley, with friends, meet new people and do lots of damage to your virtual car.

The news comes from Need for Speed’s official Twitter account, the mode will also be free for all players.

Online Free Roam coming 2018, Happy New Year from everyone at Need for Speed! 🎆 pic.twitter.com/Ht8cRsvQQA

— Need for Speed (@NeedforSpeed) January 1, 2018

Excited to hop into the free roam mode? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below. Don’t know what this recently released title is about? Check out its official excerpt, below.


‘Need for Speed™, one of the world’s bestselling video game franchises, returns with a vengeance in the new action-driving blockbuster, Need for Speed Payback. 
Set in the underworld of Fortune Valley, you and your crew were divided by betrayal and reunited by revenge to take down The House, a nefarious cartel that rules the city’s casinos, criminals and cops. In this corrupt gambler’s paradise, the stakes are high and The House always wins. Play a varied and challenging world of events as Tyler the Racer, Mac the Showman and Jess the Wheelman. ‘


Need For Speed Payback is out now for PC, PS4 and Xbox One.

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