Need For Speed: Carbon is the fourth and final Need For Speed game released for the GameCube (after Underground, Underground 2, and Most Wanted). It was again developed by “EA Black Box” and published by Electronic Arts. This time in 2006.

Carbon is about illegal street racing within the fictional city called Palmont City. It expands on previous Need For Speed releases by including pretty much every feature that made them memorable – including police chases.

In Career Mode you must conquer territory from your rivals by beating them in races. You can also use “wingmen” (other drivers – aka “Active Crew Members“), and instruct them to do things for you during races (like block your opponent).

You get to test drive a suitable car during the introductory sequence, then choose which car you want to start your career.

Racing is pretty much exclusively at night, and some courses have cliff faces with inadequate barriers, so it’s possible to crash through one of those, to your doom. But at least it looks nice when that happens…

The “Challenge Series” returns; as does split-screen two-player racing, and “My Cars” (your own personal garage). Car customisation options are probably the most detailed they’ve ever been in the series, and there’s also a feature called “Autosculpt“, which – to be honest – I never used. But it’s meant to automatically change the appearance of your car, depending on how many times you defecated the previous day…

Need For Speed: Carbon was released for Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Wii, Arcade, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PSP, and Mobile. Although not all at the same time.

Licensed car brands include: Mazda, Chevrolet, Chrystler, Alfa Romeo, Mercedes-Benz, and more.

More: Need For Speed: Carbon on Wikipedia

Need For Speed: Carbon Soundtrack:

Artist: “Song Title”

Dynamite MC: “After Party”
Dynamite MC: “Bounce”
Eagles of Death Metal: “Don’t Speak (I Came to Make A Bang!)”
Ekstrak: “Hard Drivers”
Every Move A Picture: “Signs of Life”
Gary Numan/Tubeway Army: “Are “Friends” Electric”
Goldfrapp: “Ride A White Horse (Serge Santiago Remix)”
Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five: “Scorpio”
Kyuss: “Hurricane”
Lady Sovereign: “Love Me or Hate Me”
Ladytron: “Fighting In Built-Up Areas”
Ladytron: “Sugar (Jagz Kooner Remix)”
Melody: “Feel The Rush (Junkie XL Remix)”
Metro Riots: “Thee Small Faces”
Part 2 feat. Fallacy: “One of Dem Days (Remix)”
Pharrell feat. Lauren: “Skateboard P Presents: Show You How To Hustle”
Priestess: “I Am The Night, Colour Me Black”
Roots Manuva: “No Love”
Spank Rock: “What It Look Like”
Sway: “Hype Boys”
The Bronx: “Around The Horn”
The Presets: “Steamworks”
The Vacation: “I’m No Good”
Tiga: “Good As Gold”
Tigarah: “Girl Fight (Mr. D Hyphy Mix)”
Tomas Andersson: “Washing Up (Tiga Remix)”
Valient Thorr: “Heatseeker”
Vitalic: “My Friend Dario”
Wolfmother: “Joker And The Thief”
Yonderboi: “People Always Talk About The Weather (Junkie XL Remix)”