Need for Speed: Carbon

Need for Speed: Carbon is a video game that consists of 2 releases

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The successor to Need for Speed: Most Wanted brought a continued storyline and new race types, but now with a lesser focus on police chases.

Overview

Need for Speed: Carbon is a racing game and the tenth game in the Need for Speed franchise.It is a direct sequel to Need for Speed: Most Wanted and is the first Need for Speed to be released on all seventh generation consoles.

Plot

The game begins after the events of Most Wanted with the player on the road back into Palmont City after having left some time ago. While driving the player flashes back to the events that happened on the night the player left but the player's flashback is rudely interrupted by former Sergeant turned bounty hunter Cross, who rams the player's car and chases the player until he wrecks his BMW. Cross corners the player but before he can detain him, Darius, a former ally, shows up with his crew and your ex-girlfriend Nikki (Emanuelle Vaugier) and pays him off. Darius leaves Nikki to update the player on the current situation in Palmont City. The player is then tasked with regaining his lost reputation by winning races, acquiring territories and beating the bosses of the resident street racing crews (Kenji, Angie and Wolf). As the crews are defeated, various former members come forward and offer further details about the night the player left.

Once the player owns all three districts, Darius asks the player to meet him, where he reveals that he was just using the player to gain territory and leaves the player to be arrested. However, Nikki shows up to rescue the player and reveal the whole story behind the night the player left. It was actually Darius that framed the player by switching the bag containing the money and allowing the player to escape the police raid. Nikki finally agrees to team up with the player to take over Silverton and take down Darius and his Stacked Deck crew. Before the player can take on Darius in the Canyon, they must defeat the previous three bosses.

Once the player has defeated Darius, Darius hands the player the keys to his Audi Le Mans Quattro and agrees to leave Palmont City. He leaves the player a final warning - "Enjoy it while it lasts. There's always someone out there who's a little faster than you are. And sooner or later, they're going to catch up".

Gameplay

Screenshot from the Xbox 360 version.

In Need for Speed: Carbon you race against rival street racing crews in a quest to conquer territories and districts. The player is in charge of its own crew and can hire specialists that can provide the player with much needed help both during and off races.

Race types

Drift - Drift racing makes a return in Carbon, a mode that was made popular in Need for Speed: Undergroundand Need for Speed: Underground 2 but was cut out of Carbon's predecessor Need for Speed: Most Wanted.
Canyon Racing - This mode involves four different type of races, Canyon Duel, Canyon Race, Canyon Checkpoint and Canyon Drift.
Checkpoint - Similar to the Toolboth races in Need for Speed: Most Wanted.
Sprint
Circuit
Race wars

Location

The game takes place in the fictional coastal city of Palmont, a city with three major canyons that makes use of the new race type, Canyon Racing. The city is divided into four parts, one for each of the major crews. As in previous versions of Need for Speed the city is full of other road users and law enforcement.

Versions

The PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game features an online racing mode that can only be seen in these versions, named "Be the Cop".

PS2 Canyon Duel.

The Wii version lacks online play but makes use of the innovative motion controls of the Wii Remote.

Soundtrack

- Dynamite MC - After Party
- Eagles Of Death Metal - Don’t Speak (I Came to Make A Bang!)
- Ekstrak feat. Know-1 - Hard Drivers
- Every Move A Picture - Signs Of Life
- Gary Numan/Tubeway Army - Are ‘Friends’ Electric
- Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - Scorpio
- Goldfrapp Ride A White Horse (Serge Santiago Remix)-
- Kyuss - Hurricane
- Lady Sovereign - Luv Me Or Hate Me
- Ladytron - Sugar (Jagz Kooner Remix)
- Ladytron - Fighting In Built Up Areas
- melody. - FEEL THE RUSH (Junkie XL Remix)
- Metro Riots - Thee Small Faces
- Part 2 feat. Fallacy - One Of Dem Days (Remix)
- Pharrell feat. Lauren - Skateboard P Presents: Show You How To Hustle
- Priestess - I Am The Night, Colour Me Black
- Roots Manuva - No Love
- Spank Rock - What It Look Like
- Sway - Hype Boys
- The Bronx - Around The Horn
- The Presets - Steamworks
- The Vacation - I’m No Good
- Tiga - Good As Gold
- Tigarah - Girl Fight (Mr. D Hyphy Mix)
- Tomas Andersson - Washing Up (Tiga Remix)
- Valient Thorr - Heatseeker
- Vitalic - My Friend Dario
- Wolfmother - Joker And The Thief
- Yonderboi - People Always Talk About The Weather (Junkie XL Remix)

General Information Edit

Game Name	Need for Speed: Carbon
Platform(s)	GameCube PC PlayStation 2 Xbox Mac PlayStation 3 Wii Xbox 360
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Developer(s)	EA Black Box
Genres	Add a new genre Driving/Racing Simulation
Themes	Add a new theme
Original US Release	Oct. 31, 2006 need a fuzzy date?
Original US Release	know the real date?
Aliases	Carbon, NFS: Carbon