The Need for Speed series has been hugely successful series over the years, and as the time comes for its 12th annual installment, Carbon, I think a few things need to be said that have not been by the fanboys who believe that this is the very best each console has to offer. I have had extensive experience with the Need for Speed series, having owned the Underground games and played Most Wanted, so everyone should listen when I say that there are some problems that bring down the games every year. Namely, the controls. I pride myself of my skill in Burnout, and compared to the finesse controls of those games, Need for Speed feels really loose and imprecise, I have never seen this come up in reviews, but my father, who enjoys the series, thinks that this brings down what really is a fine bunch of games. This issue, along with the fact that it takes way too long to get a really awesome car in multiplayer, really shape my opinion which was initially very positive. I played Underground 1 on my friend's Xbox system, and was appauled that a retail copy of the game was performing so sluggishly. There are no differences between consoles, but having played the games on all three, the controls are worse on the Xbox and Playstation 2 than Nintendo's Gamecube. Graphics wise, all games and their individual versions look very nice. 

I look forward to playing games like Need for Speed and Tony Hawk's Project 8 on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, because they may or may not control better, and the graphical upgrade will be worth the purchase.

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