Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the City
Although this version of Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the City shares its name with its counterparts, the game is completely different. Unlike the other versions there is no canyon racing or drift racing. The…
Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the City is a racing developed by Team Fusion, released 31 October 2006 on PlayStation Portable and Zeebo.
What Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the City is
Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the City is a racing game developed by Team Fusion and released in 2006. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation Portable and Zeebo.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Although this version of Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the City shares its name with its counterparts, the game is completely different. Unlike the other versions there is no canyon racing or drift racing. The goal of the game is to build up a gang of the best racers and take over all the city's territories. The driving is all city-based similar to the open world of Need for Speed: Most Wanted. The tuner culture/car customization features started in Need for Speed Underground are also present. There is a light story, presented as comic book style illustrations, that unfolds as the player take over territories and complete chapters.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Need for Speed series
Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the City is the 32nd of 84 entries we hold in the Need for Speed series. The next entry was Need for Speed: Collector's Series in 2006. Its critic score of 60 is 14 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit - Limited Edition at 92.
How it was received
Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the City holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the City launched on 31 October 2006, within three weeks of Bully, Gears of War, Medieval II: Total War and Guitar Hero II. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Bully, Gears of War, Medieval II: Total War, Guitar Hero II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the City yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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