NFS Carbon: First Review

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NFS Carbon: First Review

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IGN posted what appears to be the first review of Need for Speed Carbon available.
Need For Speed Carbon isn't a revolutionary game and it's far from a stinker. Instead, it's what EA does best, usually. It creates pretty good games with lots of features. Carbon switches out drag racing and Pacific North West backgrounds for drift racing and inner city urban streets. The freaky FMV filtered stuff is back and there seems to be more than ever (too much?). The drifting is an acquired taste (but it's good), the canyon duals are decent changes (though not great), and the crews...well, they suck. Of the myriad new features, the addition of muscle cars and the online functionality are the best. The muscle cars bring real challenge and change to the races and the online games (when lag isn't hampering you) are great cop-chase endeavors.
Total scores
PC: 8.2
Xbox 360: 8.2
PlayStation2: 7.8
Xbox: 7.8
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It enables from 1-8 players to vie online on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC, whereas the Xbox, PS2 and GameCube versions don't offer online compatibility.
no online mode at all for ps2???

EDIT: thanks bojan for the update
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this game sux
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omg 7.8 for the ps2 version. :shock: :shock: not good news :( :(
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Wow, I guess I am a bit surprised you know. I thought the ratings would be a bit higher but, its worst than Most Wanted. Its probably because of the lack of cops.
Seems like this website is a ghost town. No longer worth a visit or anyone's time.
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Most wanted got 8.0 on IGN (which was based on 360), so Carbon beats it by 0.2.
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Post by TheNoobofFerraris »

Longsword wrote:Most wanted got 8.0 on IGN (which was based on 360), so Carbon beats it by 0.2.

Check gamespot, I think its slightly different there.
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TheNoobofFerraris wrote:
Longsword wrote:Most wanted got 8.0 on IGN (which was based on 360), so Carbon beats it by 0.2.

Check gamespot, I think its slightly different there.
Yup, I was thinking of this IGN review of MW:

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/667/667757p1.html

Same dude reviewed both MW and Carbon: 8 against 8.2 for Carbon.
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This game hasmiserable graphics. I'm not talking about level of detail but in the way it generally looks. It looks like a comic book. Andthis auto detect thing that EA did really sets me off. I have a 128MB GForce 6600 and 748Mb of ram and car reflections update on the low and i can't adjust it. And at the same time I'm playing on 1024 x 768 with x4antialiasing.
How come I support motion blur and cool reflections in MW and I can't in Carbon
Again I can't forgive EA for winning counless millions for something they could have done lot better with lot lower system requierments :!:
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Hm that's interesting...i have XP2200+, 256 MB GForce 6600 and 512 MB RAM and i can adjust everything. Maybe its a problem of graphic card drivers or maybe demo.
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I have one theory that auto detect determines the processor power. Though i have awesome components my processor is 1.5 AMD
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Te4o_bg wrote:this game sux
Why do you think so?
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Because it looks like a comic book. And some graphic settings are not supported on my video card which BTW plays Ghost Recon on 1280 x 1024 without lagg..........
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Which are those options and what card do you have?
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The demo's graphics options are not optimized. I know I can have motion blur, yet I don't have the option available to me in the demo.

The Most Wanted demo exhibited the same thing. I couldn't turn on rain effects or visual treatment in the demo, but those options worked fine in the final version.
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I wonder why?
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prince1142003 wrote:I couldn't turn on rain effects or visual treatment in the demo, but those options worked fine in the final version.
I really hope that there will be a visual treatment option in the final release that wasnt put in the demo, cause judging from the other 2 versions, their colours were more rich and not pale like the PC version.
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Well i hope so.
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Post by Te4o_bg »

I got GForce 6600 128MB DDR2(this is the card's memmory, computer's is 768MB Kingston)
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