A brand new VR recreation primarily based on the heist motion of Payday, Payday: Aces Excessive, is coming later this year to Steam and the Meta Retailer.
The officially-licensed recreation brings four-player co-op to VR the place you’ll be able to “pull off daring jobs in VR utilizing the newest black-market expertise and high-caliber weaponry.”
“After being framed by enterprise titan Warren Jupiter, gamers workforce up to take revenge by way of the signature chaos of a Payday heist,” the blurb teases. “Design your individual distinctive loadout, mixing weapons, devices and expertise to turn into the final, high-caliber heister. Infiltrate banks, museums, and even a luxurious penthouse condo, surveying every scene earlier than selecting the good second to go loud and safe your payday.”
Options embrace:
- The Rush Of The Rating: Roll out with up to three companions in crime. Plan the job, stack your instruments, and execute with precision. Each alarm you dodge, each bag you haul, each set off you pull pushes you nearer to that flawless payday… or the form of warmth that burns cities to the floor.
- Weapons, Devices, Getting Even: Gear up and hit the rating with an arsenal that retains rising – ARs, SMGs, shotguns, pistols, plus devices like grapple and sentry weapons. Spend your hard-earned money and rep to unlock the expertise, gear, and toys that crank your heisting recreation to the subsequent stage.
- 4 Aces To Select From:
- Ace of Hearts: The Mastermind – The mind behind the chaos. Strains up each angle, each fallback, each escape.
- Ace of Golf equipment: The Ghost – Silent, surgical, gone earlier than anybody is aware of they’ve been fooled.
- Ace of Diamonds: The Technician – Gadget freak. Orchestrating the theater of destruction.
- Ace of Spades: The Enforcer – The hammer that retains hitting when issues get loud.
As but, there is not any agency launch date, however proper now, Payday: Aces Excessive is anticipated to launch later this year.
“Payday 3 is a strong step ahead for my favourite heist simulator franchise, though that step is lots smaller than I’d hoped due to an absence of content material and the unsurprising however nonetheless majorly annoying bugs and efficiency points,” we wrote in IGN’s Payday 3 overview. “I simply want there was extra loot in the proverbial vault at the outset, and that Starbreeze would have used its years of expertise so as to guarantee this was a extra sturdy and way more steady launch.” It returned a ‘Good’ 7/10.
Vice Studios may quickly assist Chains, Dallas, Hoxton, and Wolf break into the film and TV enterprise after buying the movie and tv rights to the Payday franchise. Former Starbreeze CEO Tobias Sjögren, who exited the firm in 2024 following the disastrous launch of Payday 3, commented on the risk of a possible Payday film or present when talking to GamesIndustry.biz again in 2023. At the time, he referred to as it a “good match,” teasing that such a mission may additional discover the background for its memorable characters.
Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, in addition to a critic, columnist, and marketing consultant with 15+ years expertise working with a few of the world’s largest gaming websites and publications. She’s additionally a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually Excessive Chaos. Discover her at BlueSky.