Happy New Year! ^_^ NFS Carbon

Happy New Year Everyone! ^_^

Now for NFS Carbon Review:

Need for Speed: Carbon has the same graphics look with its predecessor, NFS Most Wanted. However, the similarity ends there. Carbon lost a lot of things that made Most Wanted a success namely: difficulty and game stability.

Most Wanted's blacklist style proved to be the center of difficulty in the game. To face a blacklist racer, requirements must be accomplished first. These requirements(e.g. number of races to be won, bounty) that each blacklist racer requires from the player will take some time to accomplish. Carbon on the other hand requires the player to conquer all the zones in the boss's territory before they can be given the chance to race with the latter. 15 bosses(Most wanted) compared to 4 bosses(Carbon). 4 bosses could have been fairly good enough if the bounty is also requirement for boss races. Furthermore, adding the Canyon races did not help increase the level of difficulty of the game. I just hope that for the next installment of need for speed they'll consider adding this again (i.e. if their theme is still underground racing).

Moving on, one thing that I really hate with Carbon, which in fact made me really frustrated, was the game's instability. I have experienced a lot of crashes during races and while on the menu screen. It's all due to the graphics engine I believe and a lot of players are also whining on this problem. I haven't experienced these type of crashes on my Most Wanted playing days. I hope the EA people can do the better job on the next NFS.

Well, that's all I have to say about NFS Carbon. Happy New Year once again and may we all have a blessed and fruitful year on 2007. ^_^