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Awesome Game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a really great game. I enjoy having the extra features that the standard edition doesn't. I would reccomend this game to anyone. Also anyone who has already played and liked the previous NFS games, this is a great buy. The canyon races are very fun, but sometimes the camera angles that it forces you to take are a bit annoying but other than that it is great. The cop chases are good and the customization is top notch with the Autosculpt feature. Most of my cars are fully Autosculpted and look great.
The one major flaw I ran into was when I took the game to a friends house and played it on his PS2, which was the older fat version, the game had to occasionaly pause and load the next part of a course. I played like that for a while and eventually fell through the map...

Need for Speed Carbon

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is just flat out agerage. It totaly lackes the seens of speed that the other 3 Need for Speed titels for the Play Station 2 had. The new auto sculpt mode is fun but I was really hopeing that I could mod any part in the game I wanted, not just parts they said I could. The racing is also just flat out broken. With no seens of speed at all you qwickly lose track of where you are adn crash into almost everything. Plus to top it all off EA totaly screwd up the near perfict drifting. Insted of just leaving well enough alone they went ahead and redid the drifting and made it very hard to do. All in all if you want a new NFS game save up your cash buy a 360 or PS3 and then buy NFS carbon for them.

My nephew loves this game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for my godson for Easter and he is so happy with it.
He likes the added features in the collector's edition as opposed to the regular one but most of all he loves racing!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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