Need for Speed: Carbon 2006
Developed by EA Black Box, EA Canada, TransGaming Inc.
- Racing, Simulator, Open world
Need for Speed: Carbon is an arcade-style street racing game set in an open-world city. Players compete in illegal night races across different event types, including circuits, sprints, drifting, and canyon duels on winding mountain roads, while evading police pursuits. Cars are drawn from licensed real-world models across tuner, muscle, and exotic classes, and can be heavily tuned and visually customized. A key feature is the crew system, in which players recruit AI wingmen with specialized roles to assist during races and take over rival-controlled territories. The player returns to Palmont City, where years earlier a major street race ended in a police ambush and they were blamed for making off with the prize money. Back in the city and hunted by a bounty hunter, the player builds a racing crew and challenges the gangs that control Palmont's neighborhoods, competing for territory while trying to learn who was really behind the setup that forced them to flee.
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Plot-driven, grave, classical in form and unpretentious.
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the game
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox 360
- Developer
- EA Black Box, EA Canada, TransGaming Inc.
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Released
- October 31, 2006
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
- Perspective
- First person, Third person
- Engine
- EAGL
IGDB rating 7.2/10 from 568 ratings.
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