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?
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Need For Real Physics
Cmon the physics weren’t that bad in the game
Yes the cars felt like magnets stuck to the road and they were ridiculously light, you’d also get dragged to the wall sometimes in corners or when you tried to drift around a corner your car wouldn’t drift whatsoever. But in the end were they THAT bad? Not at all, they just took more time to master.
Also if you look at both the heist and the race gameplay, I know that you can’t really judge handling from a video but you can clearly see that they’ve massively improved the physics
Trust me these physics have been massively improved, I have played the demo already.
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