EA's Community Day News

Skyline_man · Post by **Skyline_man** » 29 Aug 2006, 01:55

Another community day has passed this year at EA's studios in Vancouver. Unfortunately NFSUnlimited.net wasnt there this year to get you keep some new info on Carbon as we did last year with Need For Speed Most Wanted, but you can still find some info on the whole trip to EA at these sites:

Need for Speed World
NFS Cars
Racerplanet
NFS Garage
Xbox Evolved
Xbox Advanced
Game Freaks 365
DreamStation. CC
XGP Gaming
Talk Xbox
Xbox Solution
Joystick Widow
Xbox 365
Pop Culture Shock

You better keep checking them the next couple of days as they all will have coverage on NFSC.

Mean while, you can check Joystick Widow as it has already posted some new info.

Stay Tuned...

The Gravedigger · Post by **The Gravedigger** » 29 Aug 2006, 02:14

What the hell @ Assassin, couldn't that be counted as cheating ? :/

SliM_880 · Post by **SliM_880** » 29 Aug 2006, 02:24

hammerspeed · Post by **hammerspeed** » 29 Aug 2006, 02:45

cool, hope the infos good

nice find

theres also some new pics that we missed that were posted a few days ago

go and check it out

http://www.joystickwidow.com/ngallery/albums/124.aspx

if u look at some of them closly, it looks like that same city as U1

Skyline_man · Post by **Skyline_man** » 29 Aug 2006, 02:50

In case you dont know yet, and i am sure you dont

, the game will use the same graphics engine of NFSMW, so for those who ran NFSMW fine, no worries about an upgrade.

2furio · Post by **2furio** » 29 Aug 2006, 03:51

It was quite obvious they're using the Most Wanted engine. I mean, the graphics are quite similar.

Anyways, their screenshots are immensely high res.

dawnpatrolrjl1 · Post by **dawnpatrolrjl1** » 29 Aug 2006, 04:59

hehe that's some relieve I thaught that in this game you would need a pc half robot or something...

t3ice · Post by **t3ice** » 29 Aug 2006, 05:35

Skyline_man wrote:In case you dont know yet, and i am sure you dont , the game will use the same graphics engine of NFSMW, so for those who ran NFSMW fine, no worries about an upgrade.

Yippie!!...Thats the best news Ive heard so far!!

BTW The guy at nfsworld said that he'd be posting a High Quality video soon

Skyline_man · Post by **Skyline_man** » 29 Aug 2006, 06:15

Racerplanet posted its preview:

http://www.racerplanet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16101

they rated the game 9/10.

t3ice · Post by **t3ice** » 29 Aug 2006, 07:48

This year is a bit better then last year as I think youâ€™ll see some reasonably good definition between cars and car classes and how they handle. Also there will be some differentiation in the cars as well, no more Neonâ€™s souped up taking on tricked out Lamborghiniâ€™s and such stuff.

Does this mean no more catch-up

Prelude · Post by **Prelude** » 29 Aug 2006, 11:11

Carbon has been in development for two years and was starting its development when Most Wanted was in dev as well.

2furio · Post by **2furio** » 29 Aug 2006, 14:22

Carbon has been in development for two years and was starting its development when Most Wanted was in dev as well.

And I presume the next NFS is also in development right now too.

Man, they roll these NFS games like they come off the Ford factory line...

See, instead of working on two games at once, why can't they take the time to release an awesome NFS game every 2 years?

Post by **YaelDjiel** » 29 Aug 2006, 14:28

hammerspeed wrote: if u look at some of them closly, it looks like that same city as U1

indeed, check this out O.o

carbon screen
http://www.joystickwidow.com/ngallery/p ... 0x450.aspx

took this just now.. U1
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4061/nfsu1al6.jpg

t3ice · Post by **t3ice** » 29 Aug 2006, 14:37

OMFG...they posted some new screenshots too...At least I think so since I havent seen them before..

red_dawg · Post by **red_dawg** » 29 Aug 2006, 14:55

Yes, it seems that this city is the city in U 1. I suppose they modified it a little bit because the city in u1 was very repetitive and boring. IMO the u2 city is the best so far.can't wait to see carbon city.

It's going to be interesting to see the Koenigsegg CCX tuned up.

spuit*11 · Post by **spuit*11** » 29 Aug 2006, 15:40

Holy poop, this game is going to be totally awesome.

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 29 Aug 2006, 15:52

red_dawg wrote:Yes, it seems that this city is the city in U 1. I suppose they modified it a little bit because the city in u1 was very repetitive and boring. IMO the u2 city is the best so far.

I found the U1 city to be the best... U2 city was horrible IMO, and MW was ok... I'm glad carbon looks like U1, and the graphics are kind of similar...

The Gravedigger wrote:What the hell @ Assassin, couldn't that be counted as cheating ? :/

I think the same, too... You get infront of a boss player, and blow his tires... Its waay too easy.

spuit*11 · Post by **spuit*11** » 29 Aug 2006, 16:39

The assassin is only for the PSP version.

spectre01 · Post by **spectre01** » 29 Aug 2006, 21:12

man... in U1 there is no free roam... now they just using the same city with free roam... cheep @ss EA...

jtace · Post by **jtace** » 29 Aug 2006, 21:21

t3ice wrote:
This year is a bit better then last year as I think youâ€™ll see some reasonably good definition between cars and car classes and how they handle. Also there will be some differentiation in the cars as well, no more Neonâ€™s souped up taking on tricked out Lamborghiniâ€™s and such stuff.

Does this mean no more catch-up

The way I understand it is that they're trying to do a more adaptive AI system that will slowly over a couple races adapt to your skill level and keep things interesting. With 8 cars there it will also be much easier to create a type of catchup that will keep things close without the huge "rubberbanding" effect that happened at times in Most Wanted.

bam_bam · Post by **bam_bam** » 29 Aug 2006, 21:21

IT wouldnt supirse me but I liked the U1 city , All they gots to do is make it bigger and Im not really bothered

Python_S · Post by **Python_S** » 29 Aug 2006, 21:49

I've just heard that NFS Carbon could be avaible only in late September or early October...

It seems EA is doing the same thing with the Carbon demo that they did with the MW demo...Sometimes they suck but gotta love'm though

jtace · Post by **jtace** » 29 Aug 2006, 22:17

Python_S wrote:I've just heard that NFS Carbon could be avaible only in late September or early October... It seems EA is doing the same thing with the Carbon demo that they did with the MW demo...Sometimes they suck but gotta love'm though

Carbon is scheduled for release in November.

As far as a demo, ya they're gona make one, but honestly I've got no idea when a PC version will come out, I think you might see a console version here in a couple weeks maybe, but we'll see I guess.

Mixing And Tuning · Post by **Mixing And Tuning** » 29 Aug 2006, 23:09

I Have Official XBox Magazine And They Send Me Demos Of XBox Games.

I'll Tell You If They Give Me A Demo!

mikeh14 · Post by **mikeh14** » 30 Aug 2006, 09:48

November 1st is the scheduled release date as far as I know.

BTW, I've posted up my preview of the game here:
http://nfsg.net/nfsc/previews/1/

Enjoy!