Pleeeeease stop making NFS games with cool car customazation yet bad racing
In theory, this sounds ok I would soppose. Untill you witness the just plain stupid cutscenes, dialouge, and "story" that EA threw into this one. First off, I know EA can do racing. I've been following the Burnout series before EA picked it up, and enjoyed "Takedown" to no end. Yet Carbon does not impress me one bit with its sluggish controls
The thing that drives me over the edge is the fact that the driving should be FUN since you took so much time and effort into making your car look cool. Nope. The races are bland and repetive.
And someone please tell me what the heck is up with the AI? Most races, you have a teamate, or ally. They have diffrent kinds, including "Spotters" which tell you about shortcuts while your racing, and "Blockers" who... basically block other players from catching up to you. Anyway, my "Comrade" tells me about a shortcut to the left, takes it himself and being infront of me, crashes into the wall, thus blocking the allyway with his car. And plus your friendly AI are always much faster and seem to never obey any laws of physics, having the same car yet speeding up so fast it's rediclous. And many times I'll be behind him, only to have him jam on the brakes and me slam into him. He'll just have a voice over telling you how bad you are at driving.
Sooo basically, if you just want to look at a pretty car with good graphics and thousands of tuning options, go ahead and but this game. But if you want it for a decent racer, look somewhere alse.