This game may be the best next thing.....well until "certain" gamers get tired of it and go back to DOTA.....but for those who actually care here is the list of vehicles expected in the game as well as a screenshot.
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Need for Speed: Carbon
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Need for Speed: Carbon
Developer(s) EA Black Box
Publisher(s) Electronic Arts
Distributor(s) EA Games
Engine Enhanced NFS Most Wanted Engine
Release date(s) November 10th 2006
Genre(s) Racing
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer
Rating(s) ESRB: RP
Platform(s) PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PSP, Wii, GameCube, Nintendo DS, GBA, Xbox 360, Xbox, Mobile
Media DVD, UMD, Blu-ray Disc, GameCube Optical Disc, DS Card, GBA Cartridge
Need for Speed: Carbon is the latest installment in Need for Speed series. It was shown in EA's montage at Sony's Eģ 2006 conference and is the cover story in Game Informer magazine, dated July 2006. It is the first NFS game set to be released for the PlayStation 3 and the Wii. Many of the cars in Need for Speed: Carbon will make a return from Need for Speed: Most Wanted, such as the Porsche Cayman S, the Aston Martin DB9, and the Lamborghini Gallardo. New additions to the car list include the Audi Le Mans Quattro and the new 2008 Dodge Challenger. It is also evident that nighttime racing will make a welcome return to the series as some of the cars appear to have neon lights. This could mean that exotic cars may be featured in tuner races such as drift and may have crazy customization similar to the Need for Speed: Underground series. Carbon will be featuring actress and model Emmanuelle Vaugier as its model. [1]
Contents [hide]
1 Game Info
2 Rumors and speculation
3 Cars
4 Soundtrack
5 External links
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Game Info
According to Game Informer and Larry LaPierre, Executive Producer of EA Black Box, the game will be taking its ideas from real life racing clubs, giving you the abililty to recruit teammates, which is a first for NFS. From the group of teammates you can pick specific people, like a pathfinder who can help you through the track, a blocker who races beside you in the race and can target cars during the race and knock them off the course, and a drafter who can help you find the slipstream in the race. Also from this team you can assign Fabricators, people who "Trick Out" your ride, Mechanics, and a "fixer", a person behind-the-scenes who can get the "heat" off your back or truckers out of your way. Also new to the NFS franchise is the ability to win territories, which has benefits from certain car part stores to important people. The game will also feature a new technologhy AutoSculpt, a tool giving you the ability to customize everything on your ride, down to how you want your rims to twist on the way from the center to the rim. You can also design exactly how your front and rear bumpers look. The game will also feature drift racing, like that in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and canyon racing, a race where you have to follow a racer down a mountain trail and not hit them or fall off the mountain.
Also according to LaPierre, this game is the sequel to Most Wanted and incorporates many features used in Most Wanted.
According to the July 2006 Game Informer issue, Need For Speed: Carbon's city is located on the West Coast of the United States, presumably California, and according to recent photographs there are multiple districts, each one different from the last. Several real-world cities that apparently influenced the designs of this city are San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and Vancouver. A screenshot of a car's license plate has revealed that the name of the city is named Palmont [2]. Within each district there are 5-7 neighborhoods, and one goal in the game is to win as many of these neighborhoods as possible to gain turf and find better shops and teams. Studies on the photographs of the game itself reveal that there are steep and unforgiving canyons, a massive oceanfront harbor, a central business district lined with skyscrapers, palm tree-lined avenues, rolling high-class hills, Spanish missions, an area loaded with casinos and over-the-top resorts, and what appears to be a 'Little Bangkok' (one photo reveals a lantern-strewn avenue lined with Thai neon advertisements).
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Rumors and speculation
It has been suggested by a member of Electronic Arts official forums [3], that The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) provides additional keys to the setting and storyline of Carbon by revealing at least some of the characters in the upcoming game [4]. The character information was posted to the IMDb website on March 31, 2006, before the Carbon name was presented. There are several rumors about how the police will affect Carbon. The Internet Movie Database reports Dean McKenzie will return to play the part of Cross. It's still unknown whether or not he's still a police officer, although he likely is. There is also the possibility that he left the force and is on a personal vendetta against the hero since Cross was severely humiliated in Most Wanted.
The game's name is based on Carbon Canyon in California, which is a shocker to many NFS fans because this is the first time the game is based on an actual location:
"NFS Carbon - apparently so called due of its relationship with "Carbon Canyon" in California, where racers often meet up to drive around very fast and probably "race for pinks" and the like - is due out on Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PS2, Xbox, GameCube, Nintendo DS, Gameboy Advance and PSP this winter.
Those of you wondering whether it shares more in common with the ludicrously popular Need For Speed Underground games or the recent Most Wanted digression will probably find elements of both, by the sound of it, with lots of cop chases but also a definite sense of building up a "crew".
This time your gang of racing pals will have unique characteristics in each of their favour. Some will be better at ramming people off the road, others at slipstreaming and so on. Your pals wont be able to help you during the "canyon races" the title hints at, where you have to race after an opponent without getting caught out by the scenery."
Extract taken from
www.eurogamer.net[5]
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Cars
Alfa Romeo Brera
Aston Martin DB9
Audi Quattro photo
BMW M3 GTR (Stock car from from Most Wanted)
Chevy Camaro (1967 SS from Most Wanted)
Chrysler 300C SRT-8
Dodge Caliber R/T
Dodge Challenger
Dodge Charger (2007 model)
Dodge Viper
Ford Mustang GT
Ford Mustang (Shelby GT-500 2007)
Lamborghini Gallardo
Lamborghini Murcielago
Lotus Elise 111R
Mazda RX-7
Mazda RX-8
Mazda6
Mazda3
Mercedes-Benz CLK 500
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX (HELL YEAH!!!!!)
Nissan 350Z photo
Porsche Carrera GT (HELL YEAH!!!!)
Porsche Cayman S
Subaru Impreza WRX STI (2006 model)
Toyota Supra photo
Volkswagen R32 photo
