Need for Speed Payback is an open-world racing game with lots of different types of races, and an offline single-player campaign. My single-player experience isn’t interrupted just because someone happened to connect to the session. In Need For Speed: Rivals, single-player and multiplayer modes are no longer options separated by a menu tree they coexist inside the active game. The game gives you two play options: take the wheel as a racer to tear up the free play world that you exist in, or play as cops trying to keep the peace. Rivals doesn’t really have a storyline, but then this is a driving game so we can’t say we care too much. This makes having a reliable Internet connection a necessity (it doesn’t need to be fast though even 192kbps should be fine).
Even in single-player mode you’ll need to be connected to EA’s servers to play the game. Unlike older games in the series, you cannot play Need for Speed offline.
