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ItвЂ™s a learning experience, almost a workplace team-building exercise (just with more assault rifles).ДЄll of this is wrapped up with the sort of online progression system youвЂ™ve seen in many other games вЂ“ you level up quickly at first, but hit a wall around level 40, requiring taking on the more difficult, longer, easier-to-fail heists to get enough XP to be worth your time. But a failure is rarely a reason to give up вЂ“ and, if thereвЂ™s no plan B, youвЂ™ll often find yourself restarting the heist with all four players, nobody wanting to drop out and try something else. The moment our four-person team organically set up a daisy-chain system to transport heavy loot bags from a crashed van to a waiting escape chopper was genuinely uplifting.ДЄnd thatвЂ™s the thing: the positive moments are genuinely brilliant, yes, but the points where it doesnвЂ™t go well are just as much fun.

Everyone begins to function as a unit, reading silent cues from one another and operating in a manner that would make the Oceans 11 look like the crooks from Home Alone. YouвЂ™ll spit with fury as people play as if this is Call of Duty or Battlefield, and not a totally different game.Д«ut then something weird happens: it starts to click. YouвЂ™ll stamp with frustration as one teammate just doesnвЂ™t get that operating the crane only needs one person. You will cry out in anguish as one team member attempts to lone-wolf the heist, quickly overcome by law enforcement and requiring your rescue (either by braving the hostile situation or waiting for a hostage exchange). Your well oiled crime machine will falter, and falter a lot. well, youвЂ™re working with other people, and other people make mistakes. Part of this is down to the randomised elements: a vault in a different spot, a helpful keycard no longer where it was before, that sort of thing.

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Panic is a feeling youвЂ™ll get very used to вЂ“ youвЂ™re rarely in full control of a heist, even if you know exactly what you need to do. Waves of police, SWAT teams and FBI agents surge on your position at regular points, making those 320 seconds you have to wait for your oft-overheating safe drill to do its thing a hell of a lot more panic-inducing. What makes it so great is simple: everything takes time, and the longer youвЂ™re on a mission, the more cops will arrive to make things shooty. ThereвЂ™s plenty that goes on in between each of those points, but thatвЂ™s your basic flow. Case the joint, put on your mask, take hostages (youвЂ™re penalised for harming civilians), drill into the vault, pick the locks of safety deposit boxes, escape with bags of cash. Your basic, bog standard attraction in Payday 2 is the bank robbery. No, the main draw is the safe-cracking, gold-stealing, vandalising antics of your small team. Once the police are inevitably alerted to your presence (because stealth, while an option, is hard), the guns will very much be blazing. Shooting obviously plays a big part in this.

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Centring on a series of madcap heists, the game requires up to four players to work together in order to become rich.

Those who missed it first time around may well look at the screens and see just another Grand Theft Auto knock-off, but this is not the case. Despite all this, Crimewave Edition is still well worth your time. Not only does it look like every other gritty crime blaster out there, itвЂ™s also yet another repackaged release, originally launched on the last-gen consoles in 2013, and now given a fresh spray job for the current platforms. It promised a day-glo family-friendly revolution вЂ“ and now here comes Payday 2 Crimewave Edition.

T wo weeks ago, the delightful Splatoon arrived to daub the staid world of the first-person shooter with luminous joy paint.

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