This game isn't much different than Most Wanted, but it has it's own unique aspects where it is worth buying again.
Alright, we have Need For Speed: Carbon.
What i can tell you it's Need For Speed: Underground, Need For Speed: Underground 2, Midnight Club 3: DUB Ed & Need For Speed: Most Wanted mixed on one disk. Now, I don't say that's a formula for crap, that's yet again, an Need For Speed formula for an instant hit.
Also, this game features an whole new toy to the tuning series: "Autosculpt™". Just read on to find out what it is...
~GAMEPLAY~
The gameplay is like you can expect an arcade-racer to be, you pick an class of cars you start with; either muscle, tuner or exotic. You race for cash, you beat the main villains with face-off races and done.
It does seems much longer than it looks like, there are more cars, there are more modding abilities and there are much more tracks and challenges. The basic types of races you can expect are the classic curcuit, the sprint, speed trap, our NFSU1 friend: Drift and an all new race: The canyon drift. The canyon drift takes you to the Carbon Canyon around the city, there you will have an face off with another player, you can earn points with drifting but in the same time you must overtake an opponent and stay atleast for 10 seconds ahead to win.
Also, there is an 20 player race in the single player category.
20 racers from all 3 classes of cars will battle eachother in one race.
And in the Collectors Edition there are a few more exclusive challenges.
Oh yeah, Autosculpt™.
Autosculpt is EA's new tuner toy, you can mod your parts even more advanced than ever before. I have to say that EA is showing this part off too much, it isn't a major big of deal other than what you've seen today: Every part is able to be adjusted to your taste. Rims, parts, paints even vinyl's can be placed how you want it.
There's only one downer - it's all nighttime play.
~GRAPHICS~
The graphics can't be discribed in a ton of words, for the Xbox 360 & PC they are amazing, no questions asked.
The city is nicely lit, the cars look not choppy at all, the framerate is nothing special, and every car feels different.
~SOUND~
There is a large selection of music in the game, i cannot say if you like it or not as it's not real much better than the Most Wanted soundtrack.
~VALUE~
The value of the game will last long. Each single "storyline", tuner, exotic & muscle will load you with 30+ hr's gameplay. Each around 10.
With autosculpt, the large stack of cars, the extra challenges and the CE challenges it already can count an extra 20 hours more with those 30.
The replay value is like every racer, worth replaying.
~CONCLUSION~
Well, it's an arcade racer, and if you're reading this you'll probbally be an racing fan. This game is only worth buying if you either like racing games or you played Most Wanted. If you both like racing games and you played the previous NFS games, go for the Collectors Edition. -9.3 SUPERB-