Product Description

Need For Speed Carton: Own the City PSP Build Your Crew, Take Over the City! Need for Speed Carbon takes handheld racing to a whole new levelwith all-new crew-based gameplay and an exclusive east coast open-world city. Settle an ongoing turf war by building an unstoppable crew, winning races against your fiercest rivals, and outwitting the cops. How you choose and manage your crew will be the difference between victory and defeat. The city is yours for the taking with Need for Speed Carbon, the ultimate in handheld racing.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1681 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Model: 15262
• Published on: 2006-11
• Released on: 2006-10-31
• ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
• Platform: Sony PSP
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .50" h x 4.25" w x 7.00" l, .25 pounds

Features

• Crew-Based Racing - Choose up to two wingmen from your crew to race with you and trigger their unique skills on the fly to dominate the opposition and give you the ultimate racing edge
• Race and Cruise an Open World - Explore and race in a city filled with alternate driving paths, diverse race modes, and hidden secrets
• Control the City - Win circuits, sprints, lap knockouts, and other events on your rivals turf to take over the city one neighborhood at a time
• Licensed, Tunable Cars - Choose from more than 25 real-world carseach uniquely equipped with realistic physicsand then customize its look and performance to suit your crews style
• Customize Your Crew and More - Choose a unique graffiti logo for your crew, select your signature crew color, and load a custom soundtrack

Customer Reviews

Need for Speed Carbon: Own the City........
Need for Speed Carbon: Own the City, like NFS Most Wanted 5-1-0 before it, is a totally different game than its' console counterparts. While it is the first portable NFS game to feature a sprawling city to roam around in when you feel like it(something NFS fans, including me, have been griping about since the first NFS game for the PSP) and the gist of the game is still the same, it takes place in a different city and the story is different(the way it's told is also different--instead of FMV in CGI environments, you have comic-book style art story sequences with voice work). In this game, you're in Coast City. During a street race that you and your brother, Mick, were competing in, something happens. The accident leaves you laid up in the hospital with some nasty amnesia and your brother dead. You find out what happend was no accident and you set out on the streets to find out who is responsible. Let me tell you, the city in this portable version is just as big as the one in the console version and, in some respects, alot better a city to race in. I mean, the city just drips with personality. Your main objective in the game is to take on rival crews around the city with your own crew. If you win a certain number of events, you'll get to race the crew boss. If you beat the crew boss, you'll take control of that district plus unlock new cars and upgrades for purchase.

The only thing I seen wrong with the game is that, sometimes, the frame rate gets somewhat choppy when you're racing at higher speeds(course, that's understandable with as much detail as this game possesses).

Overall, Need for Speed Carbon:Own the City is a solid game that does things somewhat better than the console games and is different enough from those games to warrant a purchase. The games' overall presentation as well as its' graphics & sound are leagues better than Most Wanted 5-1-0 and Underground Rivals making this game the best NFS game yet.

While there might be better looking racing games out there and some that might be more addicting to play; I'll lay my money down for EA's Need for Speed series anyday. Why? because- in the end- you get more out of EA's Need for Speed games than you do other racers out there. There are a few exceptions but, for the most part, that's a well-known fact.

Racing Action
A great game for the PSP - lots of fun and reasonably challenging. The graphics are impressive as is the sound quality. The selection of cars is OK (a few more top end vehicles would be nice). The cars are easy to control and respond realistically. The increased difficulty as the game progresses make it quite challenging. Need for Speed Carbon is a cool game!

One of the best in the series so far!!!
This is the only Need For Speed game for my PSP, and it sure rocks!! Here is a list of my NFS games from earliest to latest: NFS 3: Hot Pursuit (PC), NFS Porsche Unleashed (PC, GBA), NFS Hot Pursuit 2 (PC), NFS Underground (PC, GBA), NFS Underground 2 (GBA), NFS Most Wanted (GBA), this product (NFS Carbon OTC (PSP), NFS Prostreet (DS), and NFS Undercover (DS). This has got to be one of, if not my favorite.
My Ratings:
Detail: 12/10, Graphics: 13/10, Fun: 9.5/10, Overall: 11.4/10.
This game is awesome for anyone who has a PSP with ver. 2.71 or later (won't play if you have ver. 2.70 or earlier). Please buy it! You'll love it!!!