New BMW M5 Stars In Fresh Need For Speed Payback Trailer And Gameplay Footage
Car manufacturers are paying a lot more attention to video games these days. When Porsche allowed the 911 GT2 RS to make its debut as the Forza Motorsport 7 cover star several weeks before the car’s proper reveal, it struck us as a watershed moment, and the new BMW M5 has gone a similar way.
It made an (admittedly less conspicuous) debut on the cover of Need For Speed Payback a few months ago, something which surely had to have been okayed by BMW big-wigs. The Bavarian manufacturer went a step further to have the full reveal of the car this week, neatly coinciding with Cologne’s Gamescon.
The car stars in an all-new trailer revealed for the event (above), and was available for players to sample in the game (below).
“While the M5 won’t be officially released until next spring, Need for Speed players can drive it first and exclusively in Need for Speed Payback,” BMW M boss Frank van Meel said, Adding: “We at BMW M are really proud of this collaboration.”
We’re not sure gamers are going to learn much about the new car though - it’s not hard to tell from the in-game footage that Payback exhibits the kind of classic arcade handling we’ve come to know from the Need For Speed franchise. And no, the real M5 won’t have a boost function that sees blue flames spit out of the exhaust. At least not as standard…
The car looks great in brown though, right?
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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It’s Brown
Indeed.
Not this again…
Red*
Technically, that’s a ‘First Edition’ M5. Limited to 400 units worldwide and comes in ‘Frozen Dark Red Metallic’ only as stated by BMW.
The more you know. :P
SEE ITS RED GooglyEyeHuracán
does it come with a Inline 6 instead of a v8?
GTA Wise Guy is going to be proud… oh wait he isn’t active 😑
He is working hard on the Gauntlet lmao, needless to say he put up footage of the gameplay. He will be making another video of him talking about Payback as soon as possible
let’s just keep it that way, we really don’t need that dude on CT
Incoming comments saying “smh they didn’t change the handling the game is going to be shlt smh smh”
Nonetheless the game looks awesome and I’m definitely picking it up on Christmas!
Aka: you can’t afford it, so you have for Christmas money.
The Rhino hitting cop cars to catch a criminal, just the way a GTA Vice City ambulance hits 20 people to save one.
Rhino be like:
“LEEERRROOOYYYY JJJEEEENNNKKKIIIIINNNNNSSSS”
Looks great in brown? No
Mercury Cougar?!?? I’m a Chevy guy, but if I was going to own a Ford…
Bmw should have let project cars 2 or gran turismo sport get the m5 imo. The turn physique looks like the one on need for speed no limits on thoose footages :s
BMW has had a pretty good relationship with NFS over the past years, so I kinda get why they chose to put their car in NFS Payback (I mean look at Most Wanted and NFS 2015)
That red R34 is on the poster to attract more non-car people