Need for Speed Most Wanted

Need for Speed Most Wanted

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Cliff dives just don't match slo-mo crashes

When the Xbox 360 came out last year, two of the three best launch titles had gamers behind the wheel of a speeding automobile. Project Gotham Racing 3 featured better visuals than any other game at the time, and Need for Speed: Most Wanted represented an adrenaline-pounding peak for the reliable franchise.

Need for Speed: Carbon is solid, but it's a small disappointment for gamers who were hoping for a showcase driving title for the PS3. The cars handle well and the online options are plentiful, but there isn't a lot of new or exciting content in the game.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted was perfect escapist entertainment, bringing the series to new levels of lawlessness. Along with driving mechanics in the game that were excellent, almost every challenge featured a "Blues Brothers"-style police chase.

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Need for Speed Carbon

Electronic Arts decided that they needed to change up the equation a little and they attempted that with Need for Speed Carbon. Whether or not the change is the correct one is a different subject. There are many street racers out on the market nowadays that dilute the genre and make everything feel subnormal. EA is hoping that they can push their way through the crowd and become king of the racers once again. Sadly, Need for Speed: Carbon isn’t the answer to all their prayers.

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Xbox 360 Review - 'Need for Speed: Carbon'

In a crowded launch lineup that featured three solid racing games, Need for Speed: Most Wanted for the Xbox 360 was a surprising breath of fresh air. I had expected little more than a gussied-up port of the Xbox version, but what I got was an excellent port that featured enhancements to both the graphics and gameplay alike. It was the less-rigid, arcade-style alternative to Project Gotham Racing 3, and the more-exciting, less-repetitive substitute for Ridge Racer 6.

Nearly a year has passed since the launch of the Xbox 360, and the racing market is more crowded than ever. In the last several months, we have seen the brilliant port of Burnout Revenge, not to mention the unique Test Drive Unlimited, a casual cruiser that brings commerce and community into the fray. A number of other titles, including Full Auto and MotoGP 06, have taken the basic racing mold in other directions with varying amounts of success.

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Play: Burning rubber

Most Wanted fans have more thrilling races to look forward to in Carbon, which challenges speed freaks with blood-curling canyon rides. FAIZUL AZIM SAIFUL writes.

FOR those with an unquenchable thirst for Need For Speed after the highly acclaimed Most Wanted, EA has returned to satisfy the speedhounds thirst with its sequel Need For Speed: Carbon. Featuring the same over-the-top FMV sequences, intense police chases, and an emphasis on speed and customisation, Carbon is a respectable continuation to the street racing series and remains one of the best arcade racers around despite the game having a deja vu feeling. Continuing directly after Most Wanted, Carbon puts gamers in a city divided by four territories and the surrounding Carbon Canyons (oh, thats where the name comes from) with the objective of taking over the territories and earning the love and respect of your ex-girlfriend.

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High School Boys' Basketball: Golden Eagles will feature speed ...

The Aberdeen Central boys' basketball team might lack a little in height this season, but the Golden Eagles will make up for that with experience and speed.

"We have a lot of experience back," said Central boys' basketball coach Brent Norberg, who begins his second season with the Golden Eagles. "We have five guys that had a lot of varsity minutes. When you have that many guys with varsity experience things go a little smoother in practice. It was a lot easier this year. That transition period is over. We've had some really good days of practice. The kids have a good work ethic."

Central returns four seniors, including Michael Babcock, Jordan Foster, Travis Kamm and Derek Miller. Foster saw a lot of minutes at center, and Babcock, Kamm and Miller all started at times during the season.

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Speed beats the Zen of raking

When my wife bought me a digital camera as a holiday gift a few years ago, she had asked that very question the following spring with the digital camera still in the box, never opened, just like a circular saw bought for me years earlier.

Not that I wasn't curious about the camera, but I'd depended on a very faithful, 35-mm single-reflex camera my whole adult life. Once I opened the new camera and tried digital photography, like a lot of other people, I never looked back. But new technology for me, like many people, is often vague and scary. Apart from rushing to a neighbor's apartment when I was 7 or 8 to see my favorite show on her new color set, I can't recall ever salivating over a new gizmo. The leaf blower clearly had a high hurdle to climb.

My family had bought it for me as a Father's Day gift in June.

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JOHNSON FOLLOWS THAT GRITTY FORM

CLEVELAND | Vince Costello's voice lowers to a whisper. Voices often lower to a whisper when the topic is Jim Brown. There was something about the way Jim Brown ran a football that defies words. Players from Brown's time will call him Superman and Hercules and recall superhuman feats of strength like some time when he dragged 10 mud-covered men over a goal line on a snowy day in Cleveland.

Then, often, those players will drop their voices and speak in the hushed tones you hear in church. Vince Costello was Jim Brown's teammate in Cleveland for nine seasons.

"The kid's just like him," Costello whispers. "I never thought I would see anyone run the ball like Jim. But this kid runs the same way, upright, proud. He runs angry, the way Jim used to run. He wants to hurt you.