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Need for Speed: Carbon (PC DVD)
 
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Need for Speed: Carbon (PC DVD)

by Electronic Arts
Platform:   Windows XP
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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  • Platform:   Windows XP
  • PEGI Rating: Ages 12 and Over
  • Media: Video Game

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Customers buy this item with Need for Speed: ProStreet (PC DVD) by Electronic Arts

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Product Features

  • All-new Canyon Duel and Drift race modes
  • Race for control of the city
  • Customise your dream cars with the new Autosculpt tool
  • Affiliate with the Tuner, American Muscle, or Exotic car classes
  • Strategically choose your crew members

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  • ASIN: B000HG1GXW
  • Release Date: 2 Nov 2006
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,033 in PC & Video Games (See Bestsellers in PC & Video Games)

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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.

Key Features:
All-new Canyon Duel and Drift race modes are the ultimate test of skill and nerve, where one wrong turn could cost you more than the race.

Race for control of the city block-by-block by taking down rival crews on their turf, then defeat their crew leaders in life-or-death races in Carbon Canyon.

The revolutionary new Autosculpt car customisation tool gives you the power to design and tweak your crew's cars in every way imaginable.

Affiliate with the Tuner, American Muscle, or Exotic car classes and prove once and for all who makes the best set of wheels. A new physics model makes each class handle and drive differently.

Strategically choose your crew members and then use their skills on the road and in the garage to help you win races and customise your cars.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Carbon by name, carbon paper by nature..., 13 Nov 2006
Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 
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.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Great game but dissappointing, 1 Feb 2007
By N. Prowse "alright_dude599" (UK) - See all my reviews
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Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 
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.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great game-A must have., 29 May 2009
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 
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).
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