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Need for Speed: Carbon

RacingSimulator

Released

Oct 31, 2006

7,301 days ago
Platforms
  • PC
  • Mac
  • PS3
  • Xbox 360
Ratings

Release dates

North America dates
  1. Aug 21, 20077,007 days ago
    • Mac
  2. Aug 17, 20077,011 days ago
    • Mac
  3. Nov 17, 20067,284 days ago
    • PS3
  4. Oct 31, 20067,301 days ago
    • PC
    • Xbox 360

About

Need for Speed: Carbon is an arcade-style street racing game set in an open-world city. Players compete in illegal night races across different event types, including circuits, sprints, drifting, and canyon duels on winding mountain roads, while evading police pursuits. Cars are drawn from licensed real-world models across tuner, muscle, and exotic classes, and can be heavily tuned and visually customized. A key feature is the crew system, in which players recruit AI wingmen with specialized roles to assist during races and take over rival-controlled territories.

Trailers

Screenshots

How long to beat

HowLongToBeat ↗ · 403 players
Main story
11 h
Main + extras
14 h
Completionist
20 h

Reviews

Critics (IGDB)71/1002 reviews
IGDB players72/100573 ratings

Game info

Released
2006 · see every game from that year
Modes
Single player · Multiplayer · Split screen
Perspective
First person · Third person
Engine
EAGL

Other versions

Studios

Characters

Age ratings

  • ESRBE10+Violence
  • PEGI12Violence
  • CEROBCrime
  • USK12No content descriptors
  • CLASS IND14Violência (Violence)
  • ACBGNo content descriptors

Languages

1 language
English
LanguageAudioSubtitlesInterface
EnglishEnglish (US)––

Themes & tags

23 more tags

Story & names

The player returns to Palmont City, where years earlier a major street race ended in a police ambush and they were blamed for making off with the prize money. Back in the city and hunted by a bounty hunter, the player builds a racing crew and challenges the gangs that control Palmont's neighborhoods, competing for territory while trying to learn who was really behind the setup that forced them to flee.

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Also known as

  • NFS: CarbonAbbreviation
  • NFS CarbonAbbreviation
  • NFSCAcronym

Release dates by region

15 releases in 5 regions

worldwide

  • Aug 21, 2007Mac

north america

europe

japan

australia

The Need for Speed series

All 70 games
  1. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 22002
  2. Need for Speed: Top Speed2002
  3. Need for Speed: Underground2003
  4. Need for Speed GT2003
  5. Need for Speed: Underground 22004
  6. Need for Speed: Most Wanted Demo2005 · Standalone expansion
  7. Need for Speed: Most Wanted2005
  8. This gameNeed for Speed: Carbon2006
  9. Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the City2006
  10. Need for Speed: ProStreet2007
  11. Need for Speed: Undercover2008
  12. Need for Speed: Nitro2009

Showing 9–20 of 39 main games, in release order.

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Where to find it

Data from IGDB and Steam. Critic scores from OpenCritic. Dates shown for North America, in your local time zone.