GameInformer's Carbon Hands On

Post by **Bojan** » 06 Oct 2006, 09:06

GameInformer magazine got an exclusive hands on preview of the upcoming Need for Speed Carbon and they got to test both the online modes and the single player carreer.
Carrer will start with with a canyon chase with our old friend from Most Wanted, Cross. Of course your car is crashed at the end of the chase meaning you'll have to start all over, but the starting car choices are bit more interesting: Chevy Camaro SS (Muscle), Alfa Romero Alpha Brera (Exotic), or Mazda RX8 (Tuner). Carreer then continues with you taking over territories by winning the races (you got a glance of that in the recently released Xbox 360 demo).
Online has 8 different modes including the all new police modes: Pursuit Knockout and Pursuit Tag. In Pursuit Tag the "driver is in a race car and everyone else is police. The goal is to be the race car for the longest amount of time". Pursuit Knockout is like the original Knockout, except the driver who is knocked out becomes a cop with a mission to stop the remaining racers. It seems that the cop modes are extremely fun as the reviewers were more than satisfied with them.
Some new information was also revealed: the team is seriously considering providing downloadable content, including cars, vinyls, paints and more. Providing that on Xbox 360 is simple - via payable addons on Live. But how are they planning it for other systems? Hopefully for free, but other developers have started charging little amounts for these addons.
Remember the Collector's edition? It will contain "12 new tracks, six new challenge series missions, and 10 exclusive cars including the 92’ Nissan 240 SX, 07 Jaguar XK, 06 Camero Concept, and the 06’ Koenigsegg CCX".
If you're interested in a few details we did not cover, be sure to read the full article here.

PanZero · Post by **PanZero** » 06 Oct 2006, 09:14

Starting with an RX-8 for Tuners? I'm sold!

Trapez · Post by **Trapez** » 06 Oct 2006, 09:42

Remember the Collector's edition? It will contain "12 new tracks, six new challenge series missions, and 10 exclusive cars including the 92â€™ Nissan 240 SX, 07 Jaguar XK, 06 Camero Concept, and the 06â€™ Koenigsegg CCX".

Sweet, BUT I wonder if it will be available in Europe...or we gonna have to download some extra files to unlock the bonuses just like last year with MW

This is kinda stupid actually that US gets it and we don't.

battleram · Post by **battleram** » 06 Oct 2006, 09:54

I read the whole rewieve and it said that on XBOX360 it will be released as the regular version and collectors version, but the question is if they'll release the collectors edition on PC?

battleram · Post by **battleram** » 06 Oct 2006, 09:55

Or on other platforms

P.S. sry for double posting

Post by **YaelDjiel** » 06 Oct 2006, 10:44

battleram wrote:P.S. sry for double posting

you can fix that by using the edit button at the top right of your post

Muscle Car · Post by **Muscle Car** » 06 Oct 2006, 11:11

how meny muscle cars are in the game ???

TurbonetiC · Post by **TurbonetiC** » 06 Oct 2006, 11:49

battleram wrote:I read the whole rewieve and it said that on XBOX360 it will be released as the regular version and collectors version, but the question is if they'll release the collectors edition on PC?

You can preorder a CE version for PC and PS2 at Amazon.de, so there must be a CE for at least these three(xBox360, PS2 and PC) systems.

PC CE Boxart @ amazon.de

underoath285 · Post by **underoath285** » 06 Oct 2006, 12:45

cant wait to use that camaro;
just wish we had a demo!

battleram · Post by **battleram** » 06 Oct 2006, 13:00

I wonder what takes them so long to publish a PC demo

Zonda_Z · Post by **Zonda_Z** » 06 Oct 2006, 13:07

I will buy the Collectors Edition at any cost , and anyways , happy to see an Update . . . . . . .and speaking of exclusive cars , i wonder if the Zonda is one of them ?
Thanks Bojan

Fadeproof · Post by **Fadeproof** » 06 Oct 2006, 13:10

the collectors edition is the same price as that normal one. I went and preordered carbon today for the 360, and i asked about the collectors edition, they said there both the same, so i got that one.
(i would have got it anyway)

Fishwhiz · Post by **Fishwhiz** » 06 Oct 2006, 13:11

I thought there was 3 actually "exclusive" cars. 10 cars from the nfs:c- ce are the specially tuned. i may belive the chevy camaro concept is an exclusive, but its hard for me to belive the ccx, 240sx, and xk will be "exxusive", it hink they are some of the pre-tuned.

canhoto · Post by **canhoto** » 06 Oct 2006, 14:19

starting of with an rx-8???

off i go to buy RAM!!

finally we can start the game with some decent cars!!!

Shadow the hedgehog · Post by **Shadow the hedgehog** » 06 Oct 2006, 14:52

They better not charge PC users to download custom content like they will for Xbox360? I WANT FREE STUFF DAMN IT!!

erestel · Post by **erestel** » 06 Oct 2006, 15:40

Bojan wrote:Remember the Collector's edition? It will contain "12 new tracks, six new challenge series missions, and 10 exclusive cars including the 92â€™ Nissan 240 SX, 07 Jaguar XK, 06 Camero Concept, and the 06â€™ Koenigsegg CCX".

this is some dirty tactics, EA... now EVERYBODY gotta get the Collectors' Edition

RVD · Post by **RVD** » 06 Oct 2006, 15:48

Fadefroof wrote:the collectors edition is the same price as that normal one. I went and preordered carbon today for the 360, and i asked about the collectors edition, they said there both the same, so i got that one.
(i would have got it anyway)

why would they launch a normal and Collectors edition then??? usually, a game that has a few extras costs a little bit more....

Johnny_Yuan · Post by **Johnny_Yuan** » 06 Oct 2006, 16:37

wow, i'm enjoying the nice vids in their preview!

Abrams · Post by **Abrams** » 06 Oct 2006, 17:03

If EA will do a proper job at removing cheaters from Carbon, ill more then surely will try out the police tag online mode. Shud be hella of fun.

_Mike_ · Post by **_Mike_** » 06 Oct 2006, 18:28

Cops have two distinct advantages. The first is that they can go through lighted barriers so short cuts are readily available, and second, cop cars handle better and are faster than normal cars. Cutting off a leader or creating a road block to stop a few cars in a short cut is beyond satisfying.

I'm a' liking that lol

. Finally we can play like cops! Woohoo!!
Hopefully they'll include the downloadable content for PC too, and it would make the most sense for it to be free; anyways, can't wait to try out the Alfa (or the RX8, can't quite decide yet, the Camaro is however out of the question for me, I like the other muscle cars much more, like 70's Charger and the Cuda...).
I think that EA will actually do a pretty good job with this game IF they include downloadable content (and for free). But still, even without it, Carbon seems quite promising.

krazyammo · Post by **krazyammo** » 06 Oct 2006, 18:30

_Mike_ wrote:
Cops have two distinct advantages. The first is that they can go through lighted barriers so short cuts are readily available, and second, cop cars handle better and are faster than normal cars. Cutting off a leader or creating a road block to stop a few cars in a short cut is beyond satisfying.
I'm a' liking that lol . Finally we can play like cops! Woohoo!!
Hopefully they'll include the downloadable content for PC too, and it would make the most sense for it to be free; anyways, can't wait to try out the Alfa (or the RX8, can't quite decide yet, the Camaro is however out of the question for me, I like the other muscle cars much more, like 70's Charger and the Cuda...).
I think that EA will actually do a pretty good job with this game IF they include downloadable content (and for free). But still, even without it, Carbon seems quite promising.

I agree being the cops is gonna h3lla fun. If those modes are offline then i would be happy too. Watch out my cousins and friends you will all get busted!

adeemnisar · Post by **adeemnisar** » 06 Oct 2006, 18:34

Been checking NFSUnlimited for a while for news about the PC Demo. This site has been helpful in getting me the min. PC specs and for more info on the Collectors editions. Which brings me more on topic. You can get it from http://www.amazon.co.uk :
Â£25.99 for the PC and Â£54.99 for the Xbox360. For the Pc its only Â£1 more than the normal edition. So I canceled my order for the normal and ordered the CE

Aurel 2008 · Post by **Aurel 2008** » 06 Oct 2006, 18:43

aaa... guys, did u see the movies ?

http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Media/Media.htm

Damn it !!! I can`t make the link work !!!

But u know the adress...

Guil · Post by **Guil** » 06 Oct 2006, 18:46

Sweet! Jaguar XK 2007 in carbon, this car is really nice.

http://www.edmunds.com/news/autoshow/ar ... leftnav.27.*

dawnpatrolrjl1 · Post by **dawnpatrolrjl1** » 06 Oct 2006, 20:27

I also hope that the extra cars are not like MW that you can't even tune it and you can only use it on quick race!

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