Is it that bad??? ... not at all!
User Rating: 9.1 | Need for Speed: Carbon PC
Need for Speed Carbon is definietly the best Street Racing Game I've ever experienced. It's obvious that it's story is the continuing of NFS Most Wanted since Carbon starts with a scene where you're followed by Cross (the chevrolet corvette ugly cop at Most Wanted) and you total your M5 (the car you get from Razor) and so on. Anyway the story of Carbon is noticeably influenced by territory wars. You start with some Tier 1 cars costing 20' 000 cash and you can go as far as Tier 3 super vehicles like SLR or Carrera GT that value 216'000 cash. There are 4 territories in total. Every territory has some zones, any zone can have 2-4 races. As soon as you win most of the races at a zone, it becomes your's. When you win all the zones in a territory you gat challenged by the boss in a normal race and then in a canyon duel. When you win the first three territories, the Bosses join Darius crew and you'll have to defeat them again before challenging Darius. Also I like the crew idea. When you defeat a boss someone from his crew joins your's. You can bring a crew member to a race of your's and if you or your crew member wins the race is considered won. Crew members might be scouts (find the shortest way), blockers (who block your opponents way so you can pass ahead) and drafters (who reduce the air friction ahead of you as you follow them so you can gain speed). Race types are the normal ones: Drifts, Circuits, Sprints, Checkpoints, Speedtraps, and Canyon duels. It doesn't have any milestones or drags, street X races and the cops aren't very bothering. It's fairly shorter than MW or U2 but carbon has the best graphics and city so far. So if you'r searching for a racing game I think carbon is one of the best. 
