Need for Speed: Carbon

Need for Speed: Carbon

Need for Speed: Carbon, also known as NFS Carbon or NFSC, is an Electronic Arts video game belonging to the Need for Speedseries. Released in 2006, it is the tenth installment, preceded by Need for Speed: Most Wanted, succeeded by Need for Speed: ProStreet in release order and succeeded by Need for Speed: Undercover in chronological order. This was the first game to gain thePEGI Rating of 12+^{[citation needed]} The game is a sequel to 2005's Need for Speed: Most Wanted. The locations of both Most Wanted andCarbon (Rockport and Palmont, respectively) are featured in the 2010 MMO game, Need for Speed: World.

The PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance versions of the game are called Need for Speed Carbon: Own the City, set in a fictional city named Coast City with a significantly different storyline and also featuring different AI teammate abilities.^[3] In 2009, a version of Own the City was also released on the Zeebo as pre-installed game

Need for Speed: Carbon

The player drives on a route to Palmont City, when a flashback a race against Kenji, Angie, and Wolf comes to the player's mind. A police incident at the end of the race forces the player to make a hasty escape from Palmont City. In present day, former Police Sergeant, now turned bounty hunter, Cross (Played by Dean McKenzie) in his Chevrolet Corvette, suddenly shows up behind the player and chases the player down the canyon ^[5] leading to his BMW M3 GTR that he reclaimed from Razor in Need for Speed: Most Wantedbeing wrecked. Shortly before Cross can arrest the player, Darius (Played by Tahmoh Penikett) and his crew arrive. Darius pays off Cross, and the player meets up with Nikki (Played by Emmanuelle Vaugier), a former girlfriend, on bad terms.

Darius tells the player with the help of Nikki to clean up his image by beating the rival racing crews to gain territory and to reclaim his reputation as a respected street racer in Palmont. Winning races one by one, the player acquires territories and ultimately districts from Kenji (Downtown), Angie (Kempton), and Wolf (Fortuna). After beating each racer, the player meets up with a former member of that racer's crew, who want to join the player's crew and reveal their observations regarding the night the player took off from Palmont.^[6]

Owning all three districts, Darius asks the player to meet up with him. He reveals he was just using the player all along to get more territory and had set up an ambush with Cross to have him arrested. When Darius leaves, the player, on the brink of being arrested by Cross, is saved by Nikki who tells him that she now realizes everything that happened months ago after piecing together her view of the night and the viewpoints of the other racers.^[7] Realizing that Darius was ultimately liable for the player's fall that fateful night, Nikki sides with the player and leaves Darius. When he finds this out, Darius hires the 3 previous bosses (Kenji, Angie, and Wolf) into his new crew, Stacked Deck. The Player then attempts to conquer Silverton, and oust Darius and his Stacked Deck crew, to clean up the player's reputation once and for all.^[8]

Winning races against Stacked Deck, the player gets his chance to beat Darius for control of Palmont. After a big race against Kenji,Angie,and Wolf and a big struggle on the Carbon , Darius surrenders his Audi Le Mans Quattro to the Player with the addition of Nikki once again becoming the players girlfriend. But not without Darius first telling the Player, "enjoy it while it lasts, there's always someone out there who's a little faster than you are, and sooner or later they're gonna catch up..." before departing Palmont

System Requirements

Minimum System Requirements

Processor:	Intel Pentium 4 (or equivalent) CPU running at 1.7GHz or higher
RAM:	512MB
Video Memory:	64 MB (NVIDIA Geforce4 Ti/ATI Radeon 8500 or higher)
Only supplied on DVD?:	Yes
Hard Drive Space:	5.3 GB
Operating System:	Windows XP Service Pack 2 (32Bit Edition only), Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 4.
DirectX Version:	9.0c