standard for EA, every platform possible

WoW I Agree 100%.

I guess you guys don't like Initial D but I'm looking forward to this game and its' narrow hill roads even with the sh%t arcade physics

looking at the scenery, and looking at the lack of daylight (again!!) and the pimped out lambhorghini (blasfemy!) it made me realise that the old days of NFS goodness are gone... sad but true.

First we had a couple of NFS games called "hot pursuit" and a couple of others, which i cant recall what they're called right now, but they had great cars, nice exotics, super good looking enviroments, day and night-time, there were cops, you could be a cop as well!

Now that was years ago.. and it's sad how first of all EA took the series and mutilated it into a "the fast and the furious" rip off with closed tracks, ricer cars only, and nightime only with poor executed online features...
While i played the first underground game, i kept thinking how good the "hot pursuit" series actually were, and how blessed we were back then with those NFS games... "EA should make a new hot pursuit with the modern technology" is what i kept thinking while playing the first underground...

Then comes the second underground... free roaming added this time... however, nothing has changed really, in the end you were pimping out your ride to get a picture taken of the car so you could advance to the next boring races while your looking for a race or shop in the completely lifeless city where you could drive around in.... crap...

Then comes most wanted!

Wow... was my first reaction when i played the demo of it... we have a viper here, lamborghini is back, nice ford car, the exotics and muscle cars made their way back! woot... plus the city is there, it's still lifeless and boring, but at least we get a piece of what made NFS so great, a nice piece of scenery round the highways, sun set low, bit of daylight this time, nice enviroments, cops are back... and allthough not the best NFS in the world, it looks like they are finally listening to the fans who bought the series by the millions back in the day...
Sure, it still had a stupid story line, they brought in a girl so some guys could get a stiffy while playing the game while she keeps appearing every time you start the game with that stupid line "always drive save, this is just a game..bla bla bla"..
But it looked promising! we could be on our way to the glorious NFS days!

we were wrong.. at least i was...looking at these pics, seeing how EA said the cops will be there, but not as much as in most wanted, no daylight anymore, just night time now, and looking at those pimped out rides, im sorry to say, but im afraid this is a big fat pass for me, and im not looking forward to the NFS series anymore..
I'll get test drive instead, and play the old NFS games.. because this is just sad....

Yes, they need to stop doing what they do to NFS with the gangsta pimping out cars that normally have 150 hp and top out at 127 mph. I want supercars that need no tuning and day AND night levels and cops just like hot pursuit 2. Better yet, make a hot pursuit 3 please.

i'll be renting this one - its deffo a good game to play but not worth my £40

What I find funny is that everyone knocks the NFS Underground series, though it sold way more copies then any of the other series (even Most Wanted)

Personally I'd prefer the night time over the brownish Most Wanted color palette... though overall Burnout and TEST DRIVE both look and play much better then this series

25fps are you an idiot? Forza 2 does 60fps locked with over 300fps of physics and even better graphics than carbon... ok ya carbons team is no forza dev team LOL but still they cant be that bad.

300fps of physics?

EA will always make "safe" games... don't be amazed when they make another NFS game after carbon called "grills" which focuses on buying tires...

They internally develop safe games like their sports line and use that profited money to buy unique ideas from other people... this is the reason they are and will continue to be the largest third-party developers.

I prefer night racing and I prefer car tuning to just exotics so this is for me.

This is a shame why? Because everyone knows EA could've done a MUCH better job with the power of the 360 than they did with Most Wanted so imagine a second generation proper extension of what we saw in Most Wanted? Can you say hit in europe? :)

Yet another unsuspecting victim for Forza 2 =P Also guys I wouldn't really read too much into these screens they'll make sure the game looks better than most wanted.

I ask for one and only one thing in my racing games: tolerable physics. The thing could look like ass, i'd play it. You're talking to an Auto Modellista owner here. Now if its arcadey, then fine. At least allow me to feel SOMEthing before i make an impossible 300 yrd. drift ala Riiiiidge Racer.

If its realistic like your Forza's and what not, even better. The PGR series, i thought, made a fine balance between the two. But as i have discovered numerous times with the NFS series, your car feels like a block of wood with no contact with the road whatsoever. Its floaty. Frustrating physics (collisions especially-driving at 100+ mph into a railing only to have the railing untouched and your car lose some speed) and really stupid AI hampered what could have been a decent playing experience.

I would have been happy if EA Canada or whoever develops the NFS series now fixed these glaring problems, but they continue to do what they do best: release another iteration of a tried and increasingly cliche Need For Speed game on a timescale of less than a year every time. There's no possible way you can innovated and develop a quality game in less than 12 months for like a gajillion consoles.

ughhhh...sadly, i think i'm still going to buy this, only because i'm freakishly optmistic and keep wanting to believe they'll get it right. that part of me really needs to go.

/rant off

Of all the names they could come up with, it had to be Carbon. WTF is so special about Carbon! Its lame!

Ohh how I long for the days of NFS: Porsche 2000. That was a quality NFS.
Funny, that developer is working on a new title.. for atari...

OMG! I think I just died and went to HELL!

These screenshots look like a next gen (if you could even consider this game next gen) Need for Speed Underground 2. It looks like the exact. same. city.

Unbelievable, absolutely the biggest project they've ever done it looks like. What a waste of time and human work hours, this game looks like an ultra-multiplatform project.

I loved need for speed most wanted.

And it looked stunning to me on the xbox360.

I really liked need for speed underground, the customization feature was great.. From the screens of carbon..it looks dark and nothing like most wanted.

i would love a game that is a merge between most wanted and underground.

I believe NFS: Most Wanted was an intent to fuse the exotic cars and surroundings from the old NFS games and the "pimpability" factor of the NFSUG games.I can't really confirm this but I read the other day that in this case, "Carbon" relates to a specific place somewhere in the US where drivers with supercars meet to race... kind of like a "legal" place for streetracing. If I remember correctly, the article mentioned that this place was in some kind of desert or on the outskirts of a desert... which is pretty ironic since this trailer show no evidence of a desert being involved, at all!

As for my own opinion on this matter... I agree with someone that said that EA might have found the way back to the old NFS games which, without a doubt, were amazing (my personal favourite being NFS3: Hot Pursuit) with NFS: Most Wanted. NFS: Carbon just confuses me really, I don't know what to think about the game... at least I don't know yet. Too early to tell. Visually, it doesn't impress me really. As far as audio goes, there's nothing to say.

I was actually hoping for a different turn on this one. Don't get me wrong though, I like pimping the cars, but enough is enough! We've already had 2 NFS: Underground games and one after that (NFS: Most Wanted)... we don't need another one! The car line-up was better in NFS: Most Wanted but FAR from the exotics the old NFS games had to offer.

Too sad really... judging from this trailer, it looks like we'll be waiting a few months/years until we once again get a quality NFS game on our hands.