Need For Speed: Carbon

[SKYLVIA]

whats the "special ability"?

[Esc]

there special ability, they usually slow down and cut the opponent off causing them to spin out.

Edited November 8, 2006 by Nebz

[geno8r]

Yeah I got it, I don't like the handling a great deal, it's not as bad as Most Wanted (SO BAD) but it's no where as fun as the handling of Free Run in Underground 2.

The Drift handling is so stupid, it's like the car is on a rail track, you don't have real control.

& The normal race / free run handling is poor, it's like Major understeer & NEVER any oversteer, & if you try to do a handbrake 180, you'd be lucky to make it to 60 degree's

The graphics engine is inefficient like f#cking always with EA games too, they need themselves a proper graphics engine & some more efficient programmers FFS.

EDIT: Tweaked graphics setting (VSYNC on making huge improvment), looks pretty nice & playable FPS now, still needs graphics engine like HL2 or FarCry though

Edited November 12, 2006 by geno8r

[NickR33]

bought Test Drive Unlimited for the 360 on the weekend and I have to say it's damn good (surprisingly)... leaves all the NFS games for dead... they have mapped the whole island of Ohahu in Hawaii... too cool

[geno8r]

Can anybody recommend any racing games on PC besides the NFS series?

I dream of games like Gran Turismo & Wipeout on PC.

[geno8r]

Owww & found an awesome Res mod. if you're running a widescreen or HD monitor. 1920 * 1200 kicks ass

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum...pic.php?p=70341

I got this info on another forum. It works ok for me.

"Do this to fix Carbon for widescreen...

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/...title=Downloads

1.Download the program called Universal Widescreen (UniWS) Patcher

2. Go into your Need for Speed Carbon directory and name the exe file speed2.exe

3. Open up the program you just downloaded and select Need for Speed Underground 2 from its game menu

4. Enter the resolution you want in the program

5. Locate the directory for Carbon in the program and click "Patch"

6. Launch Carbon and select the 640x480 resolution

7. Finished!

Notice: Make sure to backup the original Carbon exe for updating your game later with official patches!

Enjoy!"

[MADGT4]

Sadly i'd basically finished it (up to one of the last few races) before i could run mine in 1680x1050

[Wink]

Can anybody recommend any racing games on PC besides the NFS series?

I dream of games like Gran Turismo & Wipeout on PC.

Live For Speed

rFactor

V8 Supercars III

GTR2

[ctjet]

w00t

No ferraris again!! dont think ill buy it anywayz... getting over NFS

[Zoggy]

yeh just finished it last night....

Negatives:

dont like the graphics,

gameplay is to arcadey

cars handle like boats

RICE x 1000

Possitives:

drifting is awesome (unrealistic though)

and thats about it...

[SKYLVIA]

Can anybody recommend any racing games on PC besides the NFS series?

I dream of games like Gran Turismo & Wipeout on PC.

awwww wipeout, that brings back memories! the last wiepout i played was the first one on psone...

not that i thought it was bad... its was great... i just never got around to playing the newer ones...

[geno8r]

Man Wipeout rules, everyone one of them has been great on the Playstation, & they only ever got better too! ‘unlike dam NFS / EA games’

Wipeout Pure (PSP)

Wipeout Fusion (PS2)

Wipoout 3 (PSONE)

Wipeout 2097 'or something like that' (PSONE)

Wipeout (PSONE)

Cannot wait for another Wipeout game on PS3, that will rock in widescreen HD!

[Whiplash]

Get GTR2 if you want the most realistic racing game. Thing like setting the tyre psi if theres cloud cover

but theres no drifting in there just straight circuit racing should be a 32 GTR and Cosworth Siera RS500 soon (see the GTR2 demo thread last page)

[geno8r]

Ninty Niiiiiine

[SKYLVIA]

lol nice^^

i havent played carbon yet (and dont wanna offend anyone) but are the graphics like the above? or is that just an older GFX card?

[342Four]

very square grafix

i would assume an older grafix card cause my radeon 9250 se 128mb played MW with nice smooth grafix - not high qualtiy mind you, but smooth

[SKYLVIA]

i suppose its playable, i cant say much cause my laptop cant even run the Carbon demo... i suppose thats why im more of a console person, cause i only need to update every 4-6 years... that and i dont play many PC games...

[ABuSD]

B Man ull see(soon ) that the graphics in the PS2 version is better than previous PS2 NFS games, animation is top notch too.

[SKYLVIA]

shweeeeeet

Edited December 7, 2006 by SKYLVIA

[geno8r]

I hate NFS Carbon I really do. I still think NFS Underground 2 is their best.