A racing game that was launched on about as many systems as one can expect any single game to launch on with all the main sixth and seventh generation consoles included as well as competent ports to the PC and PSP. With Need for Speed Underground and Most Wanted Largely being regarded as successful entries into the franchise it would make sense that those ideas were refined and repeated in Need for Speed Carbon. One of the biggest successful directions the series has ever taken is integrating street gang stories and adding context to races with some light storytelling to help justify the action.
Not all of its ideas have panned out properly but many of them have. Need for Speed is a series that has skidded and swerved in all sorts of different directions over the many years of its existence.
