![]() ![]() In many senses, it's simply a night-time version of Most Wanted, with an appropriate balance of windy city streets and expansive freeways. Fortunately, the next-gen capabilities of the 360 have afforded Carbon a far more charming look and feel than the baby-oil-soaked Underground games, and with a much more realistic approach, a solid handling system and a nippy, generally rock-solid frame rate (generally, as in very, very occasional dips), it's always a fun environment to drive around. ![]() Building on last year's excellence, gone is the autumnal charm of Most Wanted, and back comes the glossy neon-lit urban sprawl of Underground. Neon sign of the times Need For an actual in-game screenshot! Yes!Ĭarbon certainly can't be faulted in the technical department. In a way, we're glad that pimping our ride wasn't a mandatory exercise - especially given that we found the game far easier to drive in the bumper cam view (one of four camera views, by the way). By messing around with the slider bars, you now have the ability to tailor the look of your car just so, but there's no actual in-game reward (such as extra respect, Juiced-style) to taking time to apply any of the visual upgrades that you unlock. Further tweaks are available via a slider bar if you prefer, for example, a little more drift just before entering those races, but the option of 'optimal' settings gives you an easy means to carve a safe passage to glory without getting your hands oily.Īs usual, there are visual upgrades aplenty, and EA has gone one further this year by effectively applying its Gameface technology to the cars. With three tiers of each car unlockable at key stages in the game, you get a clear signal of when to upgrade (such as clearing a territory and moving onto a different portion of the map) and doing so is as simple as jumping straight to your safe house, purchasing any available upgrades to your tyres, engine, brakes, transmission, engine and so on. But like we said, the key to cutting a swathe through the game is undoubtedly choosing the right time to upgrade your car, and applying the numerous performance upgrades.Įvidently happy with the upgrade system from last year's effort, Carbon continues to offer a simple and straightforward means of upgrading whichever Tuner, Muscle or Exotic car you've chosen to drive. It's not quite as ball-busting as it once was, but you'll still see it crop up once you're on the final set of territories and desperate to get to the endgame. Just like then, you'll find yourself a few seconds off the pace, improve with every race and continue to be trailing behind despite finishing with a better time than the AI's previous winning time. It's just a matter of how it's expressed- upgrade package tiers were absolute in MW and relative in Carbon.At the point that the game starts to offer a serious challenge, you'll also start to realise that the AI is every bit as elastic as it was back in the Underground days. So, the first upgrade a higher tier car could get would be a more expensive package than the first upgrade a cheap car good get. IIRC, in NFSMW the higher "tier" cars simply couldn't get the cheaper upgrades. (in some cases, MW gave you more incentive to upgrade to a higher tier car in the short term, since the higher tier cars would occasionally have higher performance than the lower tier cars with the upgrades you had currently unlocked)quote:Originally posted by Luca Rescigno:The tiers also allow upgrades for faster cars to be more expensive, which makes sense. So, in the long term Carbon offers more incentives to upgrade to higher tier cars than MW. ![]() This is in contrast to MW, where two cars with the same level of performance upgrades were generally competitive with each other regardless of what "tier" the car was. What he was saying is that while at your current position in the campaign they might be comparable un-upgraded to an upgraded lower tier car, once you do unlock the upgrades for them they'll be better than a lower tier car with the equivalent upgrades. IIRC, the map will also tell you what races unlock what when you have them highlighted.EDIT to add in response to your edit-quote:Right now, there is even less incentive to upgrade the car. Quote:Originally posted by Jago:So how do I unlock the perfomance upgrades for the new cars I have recently unlocked? Keep playing. ![]()
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