Need for Speed: Carbon is a 2006 racing video game developed for several platforms by Electronic Arts, Rovio Mobile and Exient Entertainment. The gameplay of Need for Speed: Carbon is similar to its predecessors, Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Underground 2, but based upon rival street racing crews instead of individuals. Players run a crew and can hire specific street racers to be in their crew and the active friendly racer is known as a wingman. Each employable street racer has two skills, a racing skill (scout, blocker, and drafter) and a non-race skill (fixer, mechanic, and fabricator). Each skill has different properties from finding hidden alleys/back streets (shortcuts) to reducing police attention. Cars driven by the wingmen are also different; blockers drive muscle, drafters drive exotics and scouts drive tuners (although the first two unlockable wingmen (Neville and Sal) drive cars according to the player’s chosen car class at the start of the game). Car classes are Tuners, Muscle, and Exotics, and are associated with their own borough and Boss (Tuners/Downtown/Kenji, Exotics/Fortuna/Wolf, and Muscle/Kempton/Angie).

Need for Speed: Carbon System Requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: Windows XP SP 2 (32Bit only), Windows 2000 Professional SP 4
  • Processor: Pentium 4 or equivalent
  • Memory: 512 MB
  • Graphics: 64MB DirectX 9.0c compatible video card (NVIDIA Geforce4 Ti+/ATI Radeon 8500+)
  • Storage: 6GB

Recommended:

  • OS: Windows XP SP 2 (32Bit only)
  • Processor: Pentium 4 or equivalent
  • Memory: 1 GB
  • Graphics: 128MB DirectX 9.0c compatible video card (NVIDIA Geforce 6800+/ATI Radeon 9800+)
  • Storage: 8 GB