Need for Speed Carbon demo is out/Retail screenshots

I'll check it out.

Somewhat true.

Worth a try though.

I knew you'd object to that.

I played the demo, and I can say, this NFS is crap. The games feels like an early 90s racing game you'd play on the cheap Chinese console.

I will give it a try. I remember when NFS U1 came out and it was great because I had a gamecube back then . I love the T Supra.. And the Honda S2000 wasn't bad either.

I saw this ad during the KC - Sea game today and for some reason thought of You & Pauldh;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbo1iaL0Lco

Dunno why !?!

Yeah I was watching the ad on the TV in the bedroom with the surround on (sounds like I'm at the game) and I felt a chill go up my spine.... then I realized that the window was open and it was only the wind (snowing outside).

But yeah man, one of the better car commercials of the year IMO.

I drove the 850i in Germany, and you know it's just so awesome driving on roads where people know the rules (ie right except to pass). Notice the Diablo getting out of the wat of the GT in the ad, that made me snicker out loud.

A friend of my dad's who was stationed in Germany for the Canadian forces (dad worked for IBM in Germany when I was 2), and his friend brought his Corvette there in the 70s to drive, and when they left he sold it for more than he paid new and was able to buy another when he got back to Canada. I have a feeling that's what this guy could do to his over there if this were a real life dude from the ad.

Oh drool; nice ad. Our local dealership had a red/white one like in my avatar. I was in for service a couple times on the truck and just dreamed over that Shelby. They actually got the $25K over list for it like they were asking. 8O

It figures ....this game is supposed to be shader heavy. I'm playing it maxed out with HQ AF and AAA. It wont let you enable 6XAA in the game, you have to do it through your control panel/ATT.

I dont plan on paying for this one, though I've bought most.

Whatever they did to the gfx engine I do not know..
But I've never seen a laggier NFS game before..
Hope it's just the Demo that's broken

I had like 5fps with everything on at 1280 :S
NFSMW etc ran just fine with 40+ on my aging 7800GT

thats a Porsche Carrera GT getting out of the way of the Shelby GT

Ouch. To think that that 9500Pro will probably punk my X600. That's something to cry about

IMO, it's really a shame that the new game doesn't have damage. It makes the game more realistic, but the car makers don't want their cars to be shown getting all smashed up.

Another thing that really bugs me is the lack of true supercars. Rice rockets are nice, but NFS games are supposed to have Porsches, Ferraris, and other exotica. Although it is nice to see the Corvette Z06 and Carrera GT.

I'm also tired of duplicate cars. The new game has two versions of the Lamborghini Murcielago, three versions of the Mustang, and both the (new) Dodge Charger (IMO, an insult to the name), and the Chrysler 300C, which are the (almost) exact same car.

At least they didn't pull an NFS:U2 and include SUVs in the game

FTW, my favorite NFS game is Porsche Unleashed. Amazing (in 2000) graphics, good physics, great sound effects, not to mention that if features exclusively Porsches (my favorite brand). Albeit, it was slightly (okay; very) buggy (frequent crashes to the desktop), but I still enjoy playing it.

NFS:HS was good too; too bad I can't get it to run on even our Win2000 machine

Yea, both of those are my favourite of all NFS games.

I remember some crashed in Porsche.

I haven't tried HS on XP though (yet). :?

Nice

I take it you're off to Rally NZ next month?

You are correct. In the original ad I only caught the glimpse and it looked like a Diablo / Galardo / Murcielago from this vantage;

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120 [...] loocf1.jpg

Seemed like the standard Lambo rear, later it is clearer that it's the GT, but when I saw it didn't have the advantage of still frame, shoulda checked again, but still sweet even if it's not beating a Lambo, come to think of it same company now.

I might get it only because I have a mazda3, and this is the first Need For Speed with a Mazda 3 in game.

Also like the musclecars, yo.

Peace out!

y0.

Here's Mine:

I'm a diehard Maxima Fan, but the Mazda3 is one FANTASTIC car. AND it holds the best value in it's class IMHO.

Feel free to try and school me

A 1995 Evo III Mitsubishi Lancer. Probably worth a few thousand dollars today. 0-100 in about 5 or so seconds.



A 2002 Peugeot 206 WRC. Probably worth about US$400-500K now. 0-100 in about 3.2 seconds on gravel.


I've been to Rally Australia 18 time, Rally Nz once and Rally Finland once as well so I've seen more World Rally Cars than you can shake a stick at 8O

Just another clip for the fans;

http://video.google.com/videoplay? [...] ear+vectra

I love the comment about the girl with the beard.

Thanks dude. nice Maxima BTW. They did the four door sports car before it was trendy, always liked 'em too.

I dont know but I put all the settings to max the game ran smooth as silk but i have to say I think the Graphics seem a bit like NFS:U and i feel that the graphcis in NFS:MW were better. Or is this just me?? that and the refresh update rateont he cars seems a bit slow kinda like if you haveNFS:MW and put the car refresh rate down to medium.

Nice Evo III my 98 wagon STi wouldnt stand a chance even with my version 7 motor swap. but it sure is fun when i go to the winter rally in michigan speaking of which i belive that is coming up.

Looks good. I wasn't too excited about this one but saw Bestbuy had it on sale and decided I wanted it. My wife tried to buy it yesterday, but they were sold out. I'll have to get my hands on it sometime since it won your approval.

BTW, where's your Muscle Car?

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