What Made Need For Speed: Carbon One Hell of A Game?

Overall, Need for Speed: Carbon is a Need for Speed game that didn’t manage to topple the greats of the series, but it does stand fairly tall among them. It's better than a lot of the Need for Speed games that came before and many of the ones that came out after it. when you hear people talk about their favorite Need for Speed game you're unlikely to hear Carbon mentioned, this is true.

But considering how many games in the series have been released at this point and how many of them are quite good it says a lot about Carbon to still be one of the better ones, especially when you consider how short the development cycle for it was and how many versions were made that all ended up being reasonably comparable to each other.

It might not be the first one that I would recommend to a Need for Speed newcomer but for anybody who's already played the ultra-popular ones it's an instant recommendation if you want more of the ideas that worked out and previous games with a little more refinement.