Bottom of the mask.

It’s not that there’s anything actually wrong withPayday 3.

The levels are well-designed, encouraging the kind of outside-the-box thinking that rewards both the bold and the curious.

An image of a masked gunman from Payday 3.

Oh, and Ice-T.

Yes, Ice-T’s briefly here, too.

I don’t know why, either.

Cover image for YouTube video

There’s a story.

So nothing remotely worth watching, really.

No, the AI isn’t particularly sophisticated.

PD3_1: Players watch on as thermite burns through the floor to give the robbers access to the vault below.

You’ll learn how best to manage hysterical civilians we have endless supplies of cable ties now!

or how to identify the jewellery shop manager by her spiffy outfit alone.

That’s not to say all players like blowing stuff up, though just most of ‘em.

An enemy military police officer can be seen through the scope of an assault rifle. He doesn’t know it yet, but he’s about to die.

You see, every heist will feel ever-so-slightly different.

And therein lies the rub, really.

There aren’t enough missions.

Players watch as two robbers pick the locks of dozens of bank deposit boxes. Bodies of deceased police officers litter the ground.

There arguably aren’t enough weapons, either (at least not when compared withPayday 2).

The telegraphing of mission instructions and waypoints, too, is surprisingly uneven.

Payday 3 accessibility options

There is no specific accessibility section in the prefs menu.

A night shot of New York City.

Subtitles are available and customisable, although options to colour-coding speech and add background boxes to subtitles are not.

Civilians are peppered across the ground, hands tied tightly behind their backs. I don’t know how this prevents them from running away, either.

A player takes cover behind a bar in the Neon Cradle nightclub as on-screen text depicts players choosing whether or not vote to restart. POLICE ASSAULT at the top of the screen suggests the players have come out of stealth mode whether they wanted to or not.

A glamour shot of the Neon Cradle nightclub. There are no cradles here, but there sure is a lot of neon.