Need for Speed Carbon Collector's Edition

List Price: $9.99 Discount Price: $39.99

Features:

• All-new Canyon Duel and Drift race modes are the ultimate test of skill and nerve; one wrong turn could cost you more than the race
• Race for control of the city block-by-block by taking down rival crews on their turf, then defeat their crew leaders in life-or-death races in Carbon Canyon
• The revolutionary new Autosculpt car customization tool gives you the power to design and tweak your crew's cars in every way imaginable
• Affiliate withthe Tuner, American Muscle, or Exotic car classes and prove once and for all who makes the best set of wheels
• A new physics model makes each class handle and drive differently

Accessories:
Need for Speed: Carbon (Prima Official Game Guide)	PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

carbon rocks [Posted on 2008-01-02]
Great graphics,lots of action. Customization of cars endless. All around high end game. Only think i wasn't aware of is that it all takes place at night.In which after i've been playing the game i realize thats what this version is all about.

down right racy [Posted on 2008-01-29]
I hadn't played a computer racing game since POD of Ubisoft came out in 1997. I ran it on a 12 megabyte Voodoo 2, and anyone who knows what I'm talking about knows that any racing game to come has a lot to live up to. I was looking for a POD replacement, something futuristic like it was. Not a today-car in the cities of today driving "simulator." Sterile word, simulator--I wanted an experience. Then I realized I was in an electronics store in the year 2008. Look around, people talking on picture phones! It is the future. Need for Speed would probably deliver after all. I'd recommend a good graphics card, and doing some Googling on widescreen support, if it applies to you. The graphics are pretty fantastic, and the feel of the speeds you reach, heart-pounding. Little things like motion blur, broken windows, exhaust flames, skid marks, sparks flying, overheating--everything short of running out of gas are covered. As well as this, each car handles differently, if not accurately to its make, which I cannot say, because I would not know; wish I did. Cars are customizable, if that's giving a spoiler... Ha ha! I haven't yet played the game. Well, I've raced on a variety of tracks with several cars, but there's a plot to be reckoned with eventually. I'm practicing up on my power slides. It's pretty easy to crash and fall behind, but I really enjoy the focus driving well gives. I find myself leaning into the monitor and more poised over the keyboard. In my part of the United States, there is what's called "black ice" covering most of the roadways, at the moment. I'd be driving like an idiot out there, too. If Mario Cart is what you like, then disagree with me, here. But, I wouldn't be writing this if I, an experienced gamer, wasn't very much taken by the game. And, if there's one thing I hate seeing in driving games it's having to operate a gun at the same time. No guns in the game, in case that's a selling point for anyone else. There's this silly public service message about safe driving in the intro that's entertaining, too.

UGH... [Posted on 2008-02-15]
This game is a decent game but there are some depressingly horrible parts about the PC version.
The system requirements are too harsh for most normal people who have a computer. not one of those "took my salary for 3 years to pay it off" computers. one of those "I got this on Wal-Mart rollback special!" kinds.
It takes way too much space even though you may never be able to play it.
AND, there have been so many issues with the CD-Key not working or working then no longer being operational.

Awesome game......can't stop playing it [Posted on 2008-03-15]
there's not much to say about this but awesome awesome awesome....love eveything abou it from the cars to the graphics to the racing locations...everything

No way an Audi R8 is faster than a Koenigsegg [Posted on 2008-03-21]
This game kept my attention, but that is about all I can say. The driving is quite unrealistic. The Audi R8 is faster than a Koenigsegg, and a dump truck has a quicker acceleration than a Porsche Carrera GT. The last boss race was so incredibly difficult that I had to play it on the highest resolution and best quality, slowing my laptop down so much that I could play the game frame by frame. If you are a NFS fan, then go ahead and get it, but I think I am a Test Drive Unlimited fan, and this did not satisfy my needs.

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