Objects of importance will have more vibrant colors to them then the background or even the people handling them, and the people themselves have that smooth airbrushed look that might remind one of a comic book.
Still, again, this is something that not everybody enjoyed at the time, but today, after so many other games have come out it does help Carbon stand out from the pack. The game is a continuation from Most Wanted so you will see characters from that game from time to time, and that gives Need for Speed Carbon a sense of continuity that most Need for Speed games don’t really have as they’ve generally been unrelated to one another.Īlso in line with Most Wanted, the previously mentioned FMV sequences do make a stylish return, although here arguably look a little bit better. Despite its prevalence, it’s a Need for Speed game that isn’t talked about often these days, as Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted still tower over Carbon for a multitude of reasons, but it was a great Need for Speed game in its own right.įirstly, anybody who fires up Carbon will immediately notice its presentation that stood out at the time and even today looks pretty interesting with FMV sequences over top of in-game assets giving cutscenes an interesting look that, while it wasn’t to the taste of everybody at that time, has aged surprisingly well if you’re looking at it from an artistic point of view anyway. A racing game that was launched on about as many systems as one can expect any single game to launch on with all the main sixth and seventh generation consoles included as well as competent ports to the PC and PSP. With Need for Speed Underground and Most Wanted Largely being regarded as successful entries into the franchise it would make sense that those ideas were refined and repeated in Need for Speed Carbon. One of the biggest successful directions the series has ever taken is integrating street gang stories and adding context to races with some light storytelling to help justify the action. Not all of its ideas have panned out properly but many of them have. Need for Speed is a series that has skidded and swerved in all sorts of different directions over the many years of its existence.
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