Payday 2   posted 9/30/2013 by Cyril Lachel other articles by
Cyril Lachel Platforms: 360 Payday feels like one of those
franchises that is only one or two iterations away from
fulfilling its potential. If I had to guess, Payday 4 will
probably be a real contender for game of the year in the not-
too-distant future. Until that day comes, we are stuck with
Payday 2, the mostly enjoyable sequel to Overkill Software's
2011 breakout hit.  In case you missed Payday: The Heist, this
is a series of first-person shooters in which players steal
jewelry, rob banks, damage property and pull off increasingly
complicated jobs for big money. Instead of making it all about
shootouts with the police, the Payday franchise encourages
players to work as a team to pull off the perfect heist. Can you
get away without alerting the authorities? Probably not, but it
is fun to try.  Instead of stringing the action together with a
linear story, players choose from a series of jobs that act as
their own vignettes. Some jobs are incredib