Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9791 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2006-11-02
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Platform: Windows XP

Manufacturer's Description
What starts in the city is settled in the canyons as Need for Speed Carbon immerses you in the world's most dangerous and adrenaline-filled form of street racing. You and your crew must race in an all-out war for the city, risking everything to take over your rivals' neighbourhoods one block at a time. As the police turn up the heat, the battle ultimately shifts to Carbon Canyon, where territories and reputations can be lost on every perilous curve. Represent your car class, your crew, and your turf in Need for Speed Carbon, the next revolution in racing games.

Customer Reviews

Rushed, not a patch on NFS:Most Wanted
I get the impression that this game was rushed for Christmas to feed off of the great success of Need for Speed:Most Wanted (which was excellent) but EA have lost the essence that made NFS:MW so successful. This doesn't have a fifth of the cars of NFS:MW and it concentrates on the racing, not driving or police chases. The carbon race, which the game centres around is just no fun at all, it's frustrating that if you make a mistake you fall of the edge and have to start the whole succession of races all over again, not just the one you lost.

All in all a real missed opportunity, a real shame.

Try the demo at least, or even buy Need for Speed: Most Wanted, which has to be one of the best games of all time.

Make some effort EA!!
The game finally arrived after 3 weeks!! too long even for super saver delivery.

Should have listened to others really, the game borrowed a lot of the elements from Most Wanted; the cop cars are the same, the pursuit theme song is the same, the police radio speech is the same, the physics and handling of cars are the same, and even the whole story is a follow up from MW!! It's almost like EA is running out of ideas for future NFS titles.

Another point worth mentioning is the game graphic which is somewhat better than MW but for some reason runs a lot slower.

But there are still good things in this game though such as the drift race, which is a lot better than in Underground 2, and also I love the aotosculpting feature, hence three stars for this game.

All in all it is still playable but I'd much prefer to wait until EA have perfected the game rather than rushing to release before Christmas.

Disapointed Really
After playing NFS Most Wanted and seeing the adverts/ trailers for NFS Carbon, I knew I had to have it. Once I got it I was quite disapointed.

Most Wanted was a real great game and still is my favorite Race game.

NFS Carbon has its good points, also its bad

My Good Points:
1. The Cars in my eyes are better being a huge fan of American Classic cars/ hot rods.

2. The Drift is really cool, The only thing I actully really liked about the game.

3. Car Customisation is alot better

4. The Crew members idea is pretty good but can also get in the way quite alot which gets agrovating after a while.

My Bad Points:

1. Completed this game in 2 days and I played about 3-4 hours max each day of the two. Compared with MW, this was pretty boring, it took me a week to complete MW and there was alot more of a challenge and also more fun.

2. The police side of things is absalute crap, MW police chases were really great, Carbon lacks this.

3. Its always Nightime during race! This gets annoying, I know NW is always day time with weather conditions but I prefered it.

My Advise, If your not into American Hot rods/ classic cars go and buy NFS Most Wanted, it is a much better game !

The highlight of the game to me is the American Cars and changing the parts (pretty good selection of parts) so it looks exactly how you want it. Other than that, I dont play it.