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Need for Speed Carbon
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Overall Critic Score:3.1263
Need for Speed Carbon Critic Reviews
The city’s sections felt too similar to each other. I admit, I don’t have all the answers on making a perfect open-world racing title, but Carbon falls short in this area. Don’t worry though, the speed in this game is enough to outrun such...read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at Game Informer
members was that more often than not they would actually win races for you in the career mode, which luckily you aren’t penalised for. I found this unusual and somewhat perplexing as I would have liked to be able to win the races myself rather than have s...read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at MS Xbox World
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Overall: 8.2A throwback to the good old, worry-free days of arcade racing. This is the kind of game you’ll play after seeing The Fast and the Furious (or any other street racing flick)....read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at GameZone
the Need for Speed (NFS) series’ tried and true formula of combining high-speed arcade street racing with the story of a young up and coming driver racing his way to the top. Now a “tried and true formula” can mean that you get more of a good thing or tha...read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at Gamers' Temple
EA returns to the flashy urban nights of Underground with a robust next-gen effort....read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at IGN
which sometimes gives off a déjà vu feeling, despite the locale change.EA Canada's attitude towards the development of Need for Speed: Carbon seems to mirror that of a real-life tuner toward his or her car: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it; just modify...read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at Worth Playing
A great addition to the series for fans and probably a decent rental for most. While things have been upgraded and new elements added on, it’s still NFS and it still gets repetitive and boring after awhile. It’s like EA's "Madden" of racing....read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at GameBrink
Each of the past few years we have seen EA continue with one of their extremely popular racing series, Need for Speed. EA has really managed to make this a r...read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at DarkStation
of hours in testing and they fall this short on the sounds of great muscle cars. Even the sounds with exhaust pipes just isn’t right. When it comes to the sounds I would recommend they spend some time on the streets listening to the real sounds of street ...read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at XboxAddict
Stop me if you've heard this one before: You're a young, hotshot driver whose job it is to build up his street rep by taking down his rivals, impress girls with a pimped-out ride, and avoid the police by any means necessary. Yup, the underground racing...read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at GameSpy
options. NFS Fans should at least give this game a rental along with racing fans who need something new to play. Our Rating:Breakdown:Readers:...read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at Talk Xbox
After rebooting the franchise with Need for Speed Underground, EA has continued to produce some solid street racers under the Need for Speed banner. Last year's Need for Speed Most Wanted, which featured hilariously over-the-top live-action cutscenes...read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at GameSpot
That guy from Battlestar Galactica isn't much of a Razor Callahan substitute....read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at GameSpot
at racing games. Most recently Underground moved the needle on presentation, and Most Wanted revived the gameplay ideas that made Hot Pursuit 2 so beloved....read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at 1UP
you'll end up in a head-on collision at 100-plus miles an hour. (Uh-oh, better get Maaco!)While Carbon crosses the finish line, it still lacks the destructive-firepower of a racer like the last version of Burnout, in which the environment is an integral p...read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at Entertainment Weekly
Carbon. Some of these additions can be unlocked in the game, but some are only available if you put up the cash. It’s not a bad concept, and if I could pay a couple of bucks to get my S2000 in the game, I would. So why does it feel so much like a sc...read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at Game Revolution
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events, mind-boggling tuning options, a billion decals to tinker with, banging techno music to make you go faster, NOS, mobile phone messages (sponsored by T Mobile), NPCs, safehouses, licence cars, bullet-time, neon blurring effects at top speed, garages...read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at Official Xbox Magazine UK
The career mode will last you awhile, on top of this there is the challenge series and the online play, the achievements are well scattered so you will need to play the game for awhile to get everything out of Carbon....read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at PALGN
strictly on next gen from this point we see substantial upgrade and changes to next year's NFS title. As is, if you are a fan, you have this by now and most likely have conquered it. Casual gamers will cling to the ease of pick up and play, and hardcore g...read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at Gaming Age
be done with the time. Despite its faults I really enjoyed Carbon for a few days but once my interest had piqued I found little to compel me to pick it up again other than to broaden my experience of the game so as to write a more complete review. Seeing ...read the complete Need for Speed Carbon review at Ferrago
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