Tuner vehicles have the best handling, Muscle cars the best acceleration, and Exotics the best top speed. Handily, there are also three different attributes for vehicles, and each class is best at one of them. The inclusion of the Dodge Charger allows for one or two Dukes of Hazzard style moments.Ĭars have been separated into three distinct classes, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.
Each crew member also has skills that provide off-road benefits – such as a percentage increase on race cash prizes, or reduced police attention. There are various types: a Scout will race ahead and identify shortcuts a Blocker will smash a targeted opponent off the road while a Drafter will take up a position directly in front of you so that you can milk a speed boost by loitering in their slipstream. This leads us to one of the new features – the fact you have a roster of friendly teammates, one of whom you can choose to race alongside you as your wingman for selected races. Meanwhile, as mentioned, Most Wanted’s Blacklist has reverted to a take-over-the-city type deal, and for such purposes you’re supposed to have your own ‘crew’ of racers, complete with naff logo. I don’t mind this too much: it looks kind of cool (do people still say “cool”?) and does at least explain the low levels of civilian traffic, but at the same time, we sort of had this already in NFS: Underground. Well, for a start, after Most Wanted’s daytime escapades we’re back to permanent night-time for this one. It all sounds very familiar, especially to those who’ve played previous NFS games, so it’s probably worth identifying a few distinguishing features.
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As usual, as you progress, you can upgrade your crap car and eventually replace it. This time, you compete for territory in Palmont, and when you’ve taken over all of a particular region of the city (of which there are four) the ‘boss’ character will come looking for you and challenge you to a duel.
Unlike last time, incidentally, the main actors are vaguely recognisable: Nikki is played by Emmanuelle Vaugier, who had a significant stint in CSI: NY, while Darius was apparently in the 00s retooling of Battlestar Galactica.Īnyway, all of this is an excuse for you to be relegated to the bottom of the pile in a new town while lumbered with a shit car and nothing better to do than work your way back to the top of the tree again. Conversely, his girlfriend Nikki (who – groan – used to be your girlfriend) is a bit stroppy at first, but you get the sense that she’s probably alright really – perhaps because she’s already been all smiley and approachable while delivering the mandatory introductory disclaimer that you shouldn’t drive in real life like you would in the game. Screenshots of racing games taken only seconds into a race, #655:ĭarius is trying to be nice but it seems unlikely that he actually is, because he’s wearing a permanent sneer and also a jacket and hat combo borrowed from M. Hence, there’s a lot of “you have a lot of nerve showing your face around here…after what you did” type dialogue flying around in the early stages. It transpires that you used to race around these parts but legged it after some cops showed up and some prize money was nicked: everyone thinks you did it. Darius doesn’t seem very happy to see you, though, and neither does anyone else in Palmont City – which is, evidently, the setting for the game. įortunately, an old acquaintance named Darius turns up to get rid of Cross and offer you a replacement car if you join his racing ‘crew’. Having (spoilers!) retrieved your beloved BMW from silly Most Wanted bad guy Razor and escaped to freedom, you inexplicably continue driving around in it (in direct contravention of the series’ own rules on individual vehicles’ ‘heat’ levels) until eventually cop-turned-bounty hunter Nathan “I’m always very” Cross tracks you down and engages you in a chase that ends with your accursed BMW getting smashed up.
There’s not a lot of scope for innovation when it comes to racing games, particularly when there’s a yearly release schedule to meet, so it’s perhaps not a surprise that Need for Speed: Carbon is very similar to Most Wanted and actually serves as a direct sequel, story-wise. Not only was it a very good game, it was also a long lasting and occasionally gruelling one, and you certainly couldn’t say that it was short of content – even if it did fall into the trap of making the player do rather a lot of the same thing over and over again. Need for Speed: Most Wanted had such a lasting impact on me that in real life I periodically imagine a 4×4 driving on the opposite side of the carriageway suddenly careering towards me in an attempt to ram my car into a wall.
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