Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8894 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2006-11-02
• Platform: Windows XP

Customer Reviews

Carbon by name, carbon paper by nature...
This is a bit of a cookie cutter title from EA, after the refreshing NFS: Most Wanted. Taking place after events in MW, and somewhere where the sun never rises, you start by trashing your M3 GTR (yay) and starting afresh with a new shopping cart to stick go faster bits and pieces on.

Rather than working your way up through bosses in Most Wanted, you have territories to conquer, by winning races. It's still very linear, but this time the fun and games with the police has gone.
You don't have to bait Roscoe and Cletus to work your way up either, nor achieve notoriety by engaging in Blues Brothers-esque chases and seeing how many police cruisers you can total. Saying that, someone has raided their car impound lot and you get to drive some hilariously oversteering boats disguised as muscle cars.

Given these few differences everything else is much the same, with more emphasis on racing, with drift races and canyon duels to tax your graphics card and acknowledge the Tokyo Drift film, but don't make up for making trouble with the rozzers.
From cheesy cut scenes, a limited number of car models (where's the mk 1 subaru impreza ? audi quattro sport ? gruppe B lancia delta S4 ? :-), questionable arcade style handling to another piece of eye candy (Emmanuelle Vaughier rather than Josie Maran) it's business as usual.

Yes, there are the addition of wingmen as part of your racing team, but not only are they introduced in the same teeth grating way as in Most Wanted but also serve as a hindrance, Vaugier's character seems to have got her handbag stuck under the accelerator of her Ford GT40 and is always in THE WAY.
The main story is also way to short, being pretty ham fisted, I managed to complete it in 2-3 days, on and off. A bit like a mission pack really.

Moans aside, it's business as usual, EA doing enough to guarantee the dollars keep coming in. Me, I find this stuff compelling enough to keep on buying/playing, even though I always say I won't do it again.

Still not a patch on Most Wanted. Bring back Roscoe, Boss Hogg and Daisy Duke. Having the General Lee in the game just isn't enough.

Great game but dissappointing
EA has some good new features built into NFSC including aquiring territory and exclusive game modes for online play as well as most of the best bits from Wanted & Underground 2. However; graphics are a let down, and there are bugs in the game. I found that once I installed it I couldn't play online, but this can be fixed by downloading the European v1.3 patch (uk one has issues). Links to it can be found on EA NFSC forum. It's still a good game, but I found it was bit of hassle to find a patch that worked. Hopefully a new one will be coming from EA soon that fixes crashes n other problems. Summary: Reccomended driving game, but perhaps best to wait a while.

Great game-A must have.
NFS Carbon is a great game with good graphics and a lot going on. I like the storyline and its all action.Supports wheel and game pad.
Many Many hours of fun to be had .It's a must have (In my opinion).