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Need-For-Speed
Need for Speed Carbon Hands-On (Xbox 360) Carbon fiber. This super-light textile is mixed with resins to produce some of the strongest, stiffest composites known to man. Although carbon-fiber composite is used in many places, its commonly put to work in the motorsports industry, for everything from mega-downforce wings to entire monocoque chassis. Therefore, its pretty fitting that EA named its latest extreme racer Need for Speed Carbon (dropping the fiber makes sense to gearheads), as the fans of the series and die-hard racers will instantly know whats up. Need for Speed Carbon Media Blowout What starts in the city is settled in the canyons as Need for Speed Carbon immerses you into the worlds most dangerous and adrenaline-filled form of street racing. You and your crew must race in an all-out war for the city, risking everything to take over your rivals neighborhoods one block at a time. As the police turn up the heat, the battle ultimately shifts to Carbon Canyon, where territories and reputations can be lost on every perilous curve. Need for Speed Carbon delivers the next generation of customization giving you the power to design and tweak your crews cars in every way using the ground-breaking new Autosculpt technology. Represent your car class, your crew, and your turf in Need for Speed Carbon, the next revolution in racing games. MazdaSpeed3 Feels Need for Speed Channel M today announced that the MazdaSpeed3 will be part of the marketing campaign for Need for Speed Carbon. This includes in-game exposure and a GameStop and EB Games campaign to win a real life MazdaSpeed3 car. Additionally 16 malls will hold tournaments to win a trip to the final championship tournament in Las Vegas, where players also have a chance to win a MazdaSpeed3 car. Visit MazdaSpeed3.com for more details.
"Never has a campaign featured so many consumer touch points as this one," stated David Teichner, CEO for Channel M. "With significant in-game placement, in-store media, sweepstakes, cars in malls, tournaments in malls and a final event in Vegas, this is the most comprehensive videogame integration campaign yet created. I am thrilled that my team at Channel M has the opportunity to put this program together from its inception to execution. Need For Speed: Carbon Demo On XBL For those of you who might not have heard the news, there is a demo of Need For Speed: Carbon out on the Xbox Live Marketplace.
The cops are on to you and your crew in Need for Speed Carbon. The races are already set, but the heat is coming down, so where do you and your fellow racers go? Leave the comforting concrete confines of the city and take to the winding, treacherous curves of Carbon Canyon. EA Announces 30 Games in Development for PLAYSTATION 3 EA has more than 30 games in development for the PLAYSTATION(R)3. When the system launches in November, EA will deliver some of the world's most popular games including Madden NFL 07, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR(R) 07 and Need for Speed(TM) Carbon. EA will release eight to ten games on the PLAYSTATION(R)3 by late March including EA SPORTS(TM) Fight Night Round 3 and Def Jam: ICON(TM). (Graphic: Business Wire) .
The Need for Speed racing series has been a favorite of mine for many years dating all the way back to the 3DO and the original Playstation. My favorite feature has always been when the cops are chasing you, named Hot Pursuit. Fortunately, Carbon includes this racing option amongst many others from past series including most of the features from Underground and Most Wanted. The new feature is the canyon runs that occur on Carbon Canyon. This is somewhat like a time trail, where you first chase after the rival gang racer, and then you race down the same canyon while he chases you. What makes it exciting is that if you don't keep good control of your car, you can easily slip off the canyon wall, ending the race. Another feature that is more fun than it sounds is Autosculpt™.
Xbox 360 - Need for Speed: Carbon demo on the Marketplace! Major Nelson, in his blog, has just announced that Need for Speed Carbon demo (1GB) has just skidded into the Xbox Live Marketplace. Here below the Marketplace description of the game: "The Battle for the City is Won in the Canyons. What starts in the city is settled in the canyons as Need for Speed Carbon immerses you in the world's most dangerous and adrenaline-filled form of street racing. You and your Crew must race in an all-out war for the city, risking everything to take over your rivals' neighborhoods one block at a time. As the police turn up the heat, the battle ultimately shifts to Carbon Canyon, where territories and reputations can be lost on every perilous curve. With Online racing and the most advanced graphics and car customization tools ever, Need for Speed Carbon is the ultimate next generation racing game." The demo is not available in the following regions: Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Sinagpore or Taiwan. Need for Speed Carbon - Xbox 360 For the avid, hardcore racing fanatics and veterans of the Need for Speed series the departure from the 1994 realistic simulation of car handling and physics to a more arcade style racer didnt go down too well, but since Need for Speed II the franchise has continued to grow and gain a new following of gamers that seek the thrill of high speed driving, frantic police chases, and in their latest game, Need for Speed Carbon, EA are hoping that the fan's enthusiasm extends to the increasingly popular drift racing. After playing the demo, which is now available on the Xbox live marketplace, I wasnt expecting much, the controls seemed flimsy and I was experiencing plenty of slowdown during the race sequences. The demo actually dates back from E3, and after playing Need for Speed Carbon at a press event last week, I found it difficult to understand why EA released such a poor demo when the version I played ran smoothly, looked great and the cars handled well. It's a role-playing gamer's heaven this week: "Final Fantasy XII" for PlayStation 2 and "Neverwinter Nights 2" for PC both hit the streets. RENT THIS "Need for Speed: Carbon" for Xbox 360. The series has been strong all along, and you know how beautiful this next-gen version is going to look. SKIP THIS "Blitz: The League" for Xbox 360. The premise was good in this no-holds-barred look at football, but the execution didn't live up to the hype. Channel M Announces the Details of the Marketing Partnership ... IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- David Teichner, Chief Executive Officer of Channel M, the largest non-traditional media company in the world and leading provider of retail marketing services, announced today that the new MAZDASPEED3 will be part of a unique marketing program involving the much anticipated Electronic Arts video game Need for Speed(TM) Carbon, available in stores across North America on November 1. Gambling Site Taking Bets on PS3 Launch While I'm intrigued, I think the person setting the odds and deciding on the bets needs to do a little more homework. The site still has bets up on whether the price will be changed before launch and whether the console will get approval by the FDA before launch. The only really interesting bet was on which game will sell the most copies on launch day. Bogdog has Madden as the favorite, followed by Need for Speed Carbon and then Resistance: Fall of Man. Sonic and then F.E.A.R. rounded out the list, with F.E.A.R. fetching 19 to one odds. What they really need to do is set odds for PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 console sales in November. That would be interesting Brian Crecente |
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