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Pretty good actually!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: November 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I submitted a review earlier about this game when I was about 24% complete with the career mode. I wasn't too happy with the game at that time; however, since I am now at the last boss race I have to say "keep playing!"

The game starts out slow but once you start unlocking better cars and parts, this game really takes off. The tracks get better and better and more fun to race on.

As you progress, you eventually unlock tier 2 and tier 3 cars and the cars really depend on what path you chose whether it be muscle, tuner, or exotic. I chose exotic and I must say that I am having a blast.

This game is basically a sequel to Most Wanted. Actually it feels almost exactly like Most Wanted except with better music.

The canyon duels are so cool! What you do is you start out in one region of the map and start beating races. Once you beat two out of the three races in each area of the map, you acquire that area, usually unlocking a car at the same time. And once you acquire all the areas in a region, you get challenged by the boss of that region. When you choose to accept the boss challenge, it is a canyon duel each time, but in a different canyon location for each boss you encounter.

A canyon duel consists of two stages. Stage 1 you stay as close as you can to the boss while acquiring points depending on how close you are to him...acquiring more points faster the closer you are. Be careful to not lag too far behind! You are actually building your buffer zone for the next stage of the race..stage 2. Stage 2 puts you in the lead. Your goal is to try to stay as far ahead of the boss as possible b/c the closer he is to you, the more points he drains from your score you acquired on stage 1. If all your points are drained before you reach the bottom, he wins and you lose. It is basically a game of cat and mouse where you take turns being the cat. If the one in the lead position gets too far ahead of the follower, a clock timer will start on the screen. If that person stays way ahead for 10 seconds, they win. On the flip side, if you are in stage 2 and get passed by the boss and he stays ahead of you for 10 seconds, he wins. You can, however, win on stage 1. All you gotta do is pass the boss and stay ahead of him for 10 secs. If you do that, you automatically win and do not have to race in the second leg.

Tier 3 is when this game really shines, unlocking the Lambourginis and the Porsches as well as other extremely fast cars. But at the same time as you progress, so do your rivals. You will be racing other corvettes, lambourginis, and porches.

On a number of the races, shortcuts are the key. They gain you valuable seconds. And believe me, in some races all you have is seconds to win!

I found that blockers working for me help very much. As you unlock parts, be sure to also tune your crew member cars which do not cost you anything to upgrade once the parts are unlocked. A lot of times, your active crew member racing with you will actually take the win for your team...meaning YOU win. =)

As far as your crew goes, you basically have blockers (self explanatory), scouts (they find all the shortcuts which are highlighted on your map when racing with them), and drafters (which basically give you a slingshot forward kind of like in Nascar).

One of the best parts of this game is the split screen canyon duels between you and a friend. Extremely fun!

At this point, I do not know how hard the final boss, Darius, actually is since I have not raced him yet. I tried the final set of 4 races once and lost in the second race b/c they took a shortcut I missed and got ahead of me. This final set of races consists of race 1 in the canyon against three of Darius's crew members, race 2 in the city against those same three, and then final two races which, I think since I have not got there yet, is a 2-stage canyon duel against Darius.

But at first if this game does not seem great to you, keep playing and give it a chance. It gets better.

Take it from someone who sells them

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: November 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game and thought it was a lot of fun. I also sell games in a store and could not help but notice how much sells had dropped from NFSUG2 to NFSMW and NFSC. I started to wonder why, and noticed small kids also bought this game and their was no easy mode in the last two. I know their are some awesome gamers out there who love the challenge of the normal mode, but their are also some younger kids who just can't play the game on the normal mode. I like the normal mode of this game it is challenging and fun, but as someone who sells them. I also seen the point of getting as many sold as possible, and EA is losing money on all the ones their not selling. I feel they should put back in the easy, medium, and hard modes. That way the kids will buy it and more money will be made, while those of us who like a challenge can still have our fun too.

Great Idea And Game Setup... But Bad Quality Control

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: November 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have been waiting for this game ever since "Need For Speed: Most Wanted" came out... And after an hour or so playing it, I ran into a HUGE problem.

And I have been wanting this game since I first heard about it because of a)all the cllasic musclecars including HEMI Cudas and Challengers and camaros all the kicka$$ mopars and other oldies and prototype cars in it and b)the near "Midnight Club 3: Dub edition" amount of automotive customizing and mayhem you can, or in this case "SHOULD HAVE" been able to do.

Here's what's wrong.... Whenever I try to use their so called "Auto Sculpt" car customization feature to modify a car and make it all pretty so I can look good while thrashing the car I just customised... I'll finish spending somtimes an hour customizing a car just to find out that the system freezes up whenever it has to goto the next loading point and the only way to save it all involves going through a loading point... Meaning all the work I did isn't saved. X_x There are a few other blatent bugs and glitches, such as certain unlockable items and vehicles not unlocking after the set amount of tasks are done, but they don't really take away from the fun as much as a freeze up does.

Now this may only be the Collectors edition that has this freeze up problem... Though I tested it on the original PS2 and the newer Slim PS2 with and without cheat codes and got the same result EVERY time. But it is still really bad that it happens in the first place. I already exchanded it for another new copy thinking the first copy I had was just a bad copy... But the problem is still there no matter how many times I exchange the game.

Overall this is a well done game for this series... Maybe even the best... But this freeze up glitch is just unacceptable for a company of EAs size and fanbase.

The Hero Returns Home

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

EA has been quit busy with these Need For Speeds Games. Our hero who just happened to escape from Rockport City. Away from Lt. Cross who decides to leave Rockport to get back at our hero. Once again the BMW M3 GTR which was
ruined in the first 5 mins of Most Wanted because of Razor now it's Lt. Cross who decides to wreck it in the first 2 mins of the game. Overall I'm about 30% into the game and I can say that the game has it's ups and and downs. The UP's Muscle Cars galor ranging from the 1969 Chevy Camaro to the 2006 Camaro Concept. Night Mode, the return of Drifts back to the UG scene.
The Downs-Compare to UG2 and Most Wanted they mostly remove the europeans cars like Audi out of the game espically the A3, TT, A4. The cop chases are the same recording from Most Wanted. No custom gauges of tach's. Rain changes. With the exception of the Subaru Impreza WRX STi which had a face
lift this year EA needs to get more cars other than the usual cars I seen since UG1. They need to retire the Toyota Supra, Nissan Skyline GTR, Nissan 240 SX, practically no one uses these cars in the last 3 games other the cray tuners I knew in UG2 online.

Not bad for a sequal for Most Wanted hopefully the Hero will have another encounter with Cross to settle things.

Am I having fun yet..?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: November 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ah! Need For Speed in all its glory. Spend 3 minutes racing, spend 3 hours running from the police. At first glance it appears to be another gasp for air while the NFS series drowns in its sea of failure. However its much much more!

Finally! The art of ricing out cars is no longer limited to Honda's and Toyota's! No sir, now you get to deface once proud muscle cars with park bench sized wings. Owning a 2001 Camaro SS myself, I was excited about seeing muscle cars in the game. However, they seemed to put no thought into what cars to add. Some of the cars, yes, were the best year to add. However, others, such as the 1969 Roadrunner were a bad choice. When people think of the Roadrunner, the one that comes to mind is the 1970, just like the 1969 model comes to mind when one thinks of a Charger. I wish EA did more research into what people like.

However, the flaws don't stop there. The accessories for these cars are a real issue. They don't have a sleek feel that muscle enthusiasts enjoy. They all have a riceboy feel to them, which is exactly what we don't like.

Now, for my REAL issue with this game: Police chases.

They are too difficult. You will find yourself racing all over the town trying to escape. When you finally evade, another car appears out of nowhere. It gets old very fast, and most likely, you wont even want to play anymore after the first 2 chases. It's very repetitive aswell, which really cant be avoided, but still, it gets very frustrating when you cant escape, no matter what you try. The best thing to do when you start getting chased? Give up. Just stop. You cant get away, no matter what you do, so give up.

I miss the good old days when NFS was fun. High Stakes was, and in my opinion, will always be, a legend among the NFS series. You can pick it up very cheap these days, and I highly recommend it over this game. The chases are more fun, the cars are better, the races more fun, everything.

The bottom line is that this game just isn't worth the money. Its not at all realistic, fun, and lacks replay value. Go with a better game, please.

What Happened EA?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

At first I was hyped up about this game, but after playing it for a week, it just was not fun anymore.

First off the graphics of this game when racing look too cartoonish, like racing in a cartoon race.

There's also no drag races in this game, you can't have a NFS game without no drag, wake up. The Drift racing was a complete pain because it's like driving on ice, I had to restart the race 5 times, just to get it right.

The pursuits are also a pain, it takes almost forever to lose the cops, and if you lose and look for a cool down spot, they find you again and you're back in pursuit. I did not have this problem in Most Wanted

The only good side is they have muscle cars, tuners, and exotics. It really kills it when you add spoilers to a muscle car, it looks so wierd.

Plus I ended up selling at a local Gamestop, because not only I did not like it, but every now and then it freezes up on me.

Keep your money, if you want better pursuits, get Most Wanted, or NFS Hot Pursuit 2. Want a better drift or want drag, get the Underground series.

NFS: Carbon, Less than expected.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: December 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

When it comes to the NFS series we all have been blown away but, Carbon falls short. The muscle cars are a cool new addition but it doesn't cover all of the mistakes in the game. As in old Atari racing games, the car would sit still and the road would move and turn and, this is what NFS: Carbon feels like. Its like going back in time, and it makes it hard to see where you are going. Another mistake is EA took away drag racing. I enjoyed drag quite a bit in the past NFS games as did everyone else. The Canyon was a fresh Idea but, the while racing against the computer and you pass them it would seem as if they had a boost and they would pass you right back. A major improvement for drifting though, you had figure out the handling of the car. No two cars were the same. In my opinion, there were too few drifting events. I mastered them in no time flat. Overall unless your a die hard NFS fan, don't buy the game. It is a dissapointment in almost every aspect.

Not enough "new"...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: January 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Carbon is a mish-mash of Underground 2 and Most Wanted, yet doesn't surpass either of them in terms of gameplay. Long gone are the fun police chases of Most Wanted: now the chases are dull and unbearingly long. The car selection has expanded along with customization, but it is limited to "shopping cart" spoilers, ridiculous body kits, and an "Autosculpt" feature that lets you change what you want, but not how you want it.

The races have drastically changed as well. It no longer matters if you are racing in a fully tuned Lamborghini Murcielago, because the people you race in the second half of the "career mode" will have an endless supply of Nitrous Oxide and will somehow manage to cut hairpin turns at 180+ mph in their Mitsubishi Eclipse. Even considering that this is not Gran Turismo, and that the game favors a more arcadey feel to it, the fact that your opponents seem to defy all laws of physics becomes VERY frustrating.

If you somehow missed the last few NFS titles, this one will quickly bring you up to speed with alot of the cars and features added in the last few games; but if you own NFS Underground and Most Wanted, I would recommend staying away from this title, the canyon races alone aren't worth the money.

Total Satisfaction - Game Rules

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: February 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

After racing all other need for speed games, this is the best one yet. Well worth the money! I am 20 and can't put it down!

NFS Carbon, it's alright

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: February 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The graphics of the game are quite good in my opinion but the gameplay is very unrealistic. aAlso the game seams too short to me i beat it in about three days. overall if havent bought bought this game already don't waste your money.

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