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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game)

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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game)	comment	Due to the nature of being an Immediate Sequel to Need for Speed: Most Wanted, all spoilers pertaining to that game may be unmarked. You Have Been Warned!The one where street racing becomes territory wars, followed by races on canyon roads.Need for Speed: Carbon is a 2006 racing game and the tenth installment in the Need for Speed series. Published by Electronic Arts and developed by EA Black Box, it was released on October 30, 2006, for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo GameCube, Wii, Windows, mobile phones and Mac OS X and in 2008 for arcades. While gameplay is similar to its predecessor, Carbon introduced a number of new features, including crews and racing wingmen, toge-styled racing events, and greater customization options.The game's main story takes place after the events of Need for Speed: Most Wanted. Following their time in Rockport, the player returns to Palmont in their BMW M3 GTR, but is pursued along a canyon route by former police sergeant Cross, who now works as a bounty hunter and seeks revenge against them. After a crash causes the player to total their car, Cross attempts to arrest them, but is stopped by another street racer, Darius, who pays them off. While all of this happens, it's revealed that several years prior to the events of Most Wanted, the player took part in a major street race around Palmont for a large cash prize against three other racers, each leader of a street racing crew: Kenji, leader of the Bushido; Angie, leader of the 21st Street Crew; and Wolf, leader of the T.F.K. However, the racers were ambushed by the city's police, who began arresting everyone involved. The player escaped with the help of Darius and the player's then-girlfriend Nikki; before leaving, she handed over the bag containing the race's prize money, which later turned out to contain paper.Back in the present, Darius, who now leads his own crew called Stacked Deck, of which Nikki is a member, asks her to assist the player despite her belief that the player betrayed everyone for the prize money. With Nikki's help, the player receives two crew members to help in races and a safehouse to operate from. On Darius's advice, the player begins taking part in street races for control over territories controlled by rival crews across three of the city's four boroughs: Kempton, the city's industrial complex; Downtown, which houses the city's metropolitan and financial buildings; and Fortuna, which houses the city's residential area; with Darius and Stacked Crew controlling the fourth one, Silverton, which houses the city's casino and resort facilities. In the process, the player has to engage again against Kenji, Angie and Wolf, defeating them and securing a member of their crew to aid them, each of whom confide in the player that they suspect someone else set up both them and each crew member's former bosses.Alongside console, home computer, and arcade versions, the game also received portable editions for the PlayStation Portable, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and Zeebo (a short-lived console produced domestically in Brazil), titled Need for Speed: Carbon â€“ Own the City. While the portable games featured similar gameplay to the console version, they included new and modified gameplay elements, a different setting and storyline, and a different selection of AI teammates. The portable edition's story follows the player recovering from a disastrous crash during a high-stakes race that left them with amnesia and killed their brother Michael "Mick" Rogers, leader of the Lucky Sevens. With the help of Sara, Mick's former girlfriend, as well as Carter and a couple other surviving members of the now-disbanded Lucky Sevens serving as their starting crew members, the player races across Coast City and takes down rival street racing crews in search of the racer responsible for the crash.A special Collector's Edition version of the main game was developed for PlayStation 2, Windows and Xbox 360, and included additional content including new cars, new customization items, and new events for two of its game modes. A mobile version was released for Java ME by Rovio Entertainment (yes, that Rovio). On May 31, 2021, EA announced that download versions of the game would no longer be available for purchase in any online stores, and online play shut down on September 1, 2021.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_115259c6	comment	Taking Over the Town: The Central Theme for Carbon is that the player has to take control of the four boroughs that form Palmont City, each of which is controlled by a different street racing crew.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_1305f045	type	Vanity License Plate
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_1305f045	comment	Vanity License Plate: All cars in the Carbon uses almost the exact license plate as Most Wanted, but it has the name "CARBON" in their license plates. Even the police and traffic, too.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_13f5b1b	type	Instant-Win Condition
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_13f5b1b	comment	Instant-Win Condition: Canyon Duels include a handful of these. A chaser overtaking the lead car, or a lead car outrunning the chaser, and holding on to the lead for 10 seconds automatically wins the entire Duel without it proceeding into subsequent rounds. If either the leader or chaser smashes through a guardrail and goes over the side of the cliff, then the other participant is handed an instant win for the entire Duel.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Besides being literally darker in the sense that it returns to the Always Night setting of the Underground games, Carbon's storyline reveals that the player was framed for stealing the prize money of a race the player took part years ago, and all of the racing crews' leaders the player faces in this game were participants in said race, and as a result, the relatively more carefree challenges from the past are now replaced with crews of racers whose leaders hate the player's guts (though the player will eventually have a member from each crew defect to their side). Not to mention that one possible option for a Canyon Duel to end is to having one of the participants thrown out of the road and off a cliff. The storyline for Own the City is far more darker than the main game, and is arguably one of the darkest in the franchise. Starting with a fatal crash that the player barely survived while their brother died, they race across the city trying to uncover who was responsible for the crash, which leads them to cross paths with what's essentially The Mafia that is heavily involved in the street racing scene. The real kicker comes in the game's ending, where it's not only revealed that the player was the true culprit all along, but their brother was also an Asshole Victim with a history of Domestic Abuse and being a Big Brother Bully, and it's implied that he is so despised by everyone in the city that they allowed the player to get away with indirectly murdering him.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_15385326	type	You Can't Thwart Stage One
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_15385326	comment	You Can't Thwart Stage One: The game's prologue has you trying to escape from Cross, but it is inevitable that as you race down the twists and turns, a cutscene plays and your M3 GTR GT gets destroyed for good after being hit by falling pipes from a truck.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_1604c69a	type	Secret Path
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_1604c69a	comment	Secret Path: Scouts like Sal and Yumi are shortcut specialists. They're helpful in finding shortcuts throughout the race which will be indicated on your mini-map. Unlike Blockers or Drafters, Scouts have an infinite usage until they used the last shortcut discovered.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: Technically when you defeat the crew boss and control a borough, one of the members of the said crew will join your crew, if you wish to hire them. In Own the City, some of the bosses you beat will choose to join your crew and help you uncover the truth behind the fateful crash that killed Mick. Or simply because of your skill in some cases.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_19d1c1ae	type	Always Someone Better
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_19d1c1ae	comment	Always Someone Better: After losing, Darius warns the protagonist that while they may control the city for now, someone better than them will eventually come along to take it all away. The protagonist in Own the City felt this way towards their brother Mick, which is what led them to cause the crash that killed him.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_1d8bd418	type	Achievement Mockery
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_1d8bd418	comment	Achievement Mockery: One of the reward cards, which unlocks the HRE 549R rims, requires you to earn the "Consolation Award" task, which you get for losing a race in career mode. Another one, unlocking Autosculpt for the "Slingshot" spoiler, requires a "Hard Time" task, where the player has to get busted in a police pursuit while in career freeroam.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Much like Rockport in Most Wanted (2005), if you take a critical look at Palmont City, the amount of illegal street racers is rampant, there's a lot of damage caused by them, and to top it, there's also a lot of economical unbalances across the boroughs in the city. The same goes for Coast City in Own the City.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_2205aff0	type	Multi-Track Drifting
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_2205aff0	comment	Multi-Track Drifting: Take a dump truck or a fire truck in a drift event and watch these two tanks defy the laws of physics.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: Carbon starts with the player already driving into Palmont City, before flashbacks reveal the beginning of their story in the city.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_27b83210	type	Hufflepuff House
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_27b83210	comment	Hufflepuff House: The minor street racing crews, of whom Nikki remark as those who "push and pull". They're in the game for variety, but the game's lore barely even explore them if at all.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_28104b90	comment	Bag of Spilling: The player's fabled BMW M3 GTR GT from Most Wanted (2005) gets totaled at the beginning of this game, forcing the player to start all over again.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_28c502f6	type	Tactical Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_28c502f6	comment	Tactical Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors: The game features three car classes paired against three different track styles. Exotic cars are usually European supercars, have balanced performance, perform best on tracks with long, smooth corners and are used by T.F.K.; Tuner cars are mostly JDM cars, are slow but have great handling, perform best on convoluted tracks with tight corners and are used by Bushido; and Muscle cars have low top speed and handling but great acceleration, perform best on tracks that alternate long straights with angular corners, and are used by the 21st Street Crew. The final stage features tracks that blend all three design styles, and its controlling gang uses cars of all types.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_2fd62e54	type	The Killer in Me
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_2fd62e54	comment	The Killer in Me: In Own the City, the protagonist is searching for the man responsible for the crash that killed their brother Mick and left them with amnesia. At the very end of the game, the protagonist learns that they caused the crash all along, having been both jealous of their brother's talent and sick of being mistreated by him, as well as wanting to save Sara from Mick's abuse.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_33864ee8	type	Collection Sidequest
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_33864ee8	comment	Collection Sidequest: The main game features Reward Cards. Each card has 4 different objectives with a certain set target. Complete a card, and you'll be rewarded nicely with bonus cars or customizable items. The PSP version of Own the City has crates that are scattered throughout Coast City. Smashing them will reward the player with extra cash or concept art that can be viewed in the Game Art Gallery.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_34439d52	type	Rubber-Band A.I.
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_34439d52	comment	The arcade version uses around 5% of the content from the main version, just without crew members, a non-existent story, Rubber-Band A.I. and a time limit.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_34579385	comment	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: The ending to Own the City reveals that the player hired EX to cause the crash that killed their brother Mick, all because of how badly he treated them and Sara. But unbeknownst to them at that time, EX later on decided to hire Buddy to do the dirty work instead because the latter was desperate for some cash.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Before the first of the final two races with Darius, Darius decides to twist the knife on the player by bringing up how he stole the player's ex-girlfriend Nikki:
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_35566274	type	I Let You Win
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_35566274	comment	I Let You Win: Said word-for-word by the boss Wolf after you defeat him. Considering how arrogant he is towards you before, it's probably him being a Sore Loser.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_3c26863b	type	Assist Character
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_3c26863b	comment	Assist Character: One of the game's characteristics is that it allows you to have one crew member capable of helping you during races by command, be it whether smashes a rival car (Blockers, or Brawlers in Own the City), giving you a speed boost by making you draft them (Drafters) or finding shortcuts (Scouts). In the PSP version of Own the City, you can have up to two crew members during a race, while Scouts have been replaced with Assassins, who can drop spike strips in front of a rival car.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Using muscle cars in a canyon duel. Thanks to their fast acceleration, it's possible to overtake the opponent before the first corner and hold the lead until the timer runs out.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_403e3315	type	Wanted Meter
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_403e3315	comment	Wanted Meter: The games reintroduces the Heat levels of police pursuit introduced by Most Wanted (2005), from 1 for municipal police to 5 for the federal police.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_41ba335a	type	Amnesiac Hero
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_41ba335a	comment	Amnesiac Hero: The protagonist of Carbon: Own the City suffered amnesia after a crash that also killed their brother, and their primary motivation is to track down the person responsible.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_435eafe8	type	Follow the White Rabbit
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_435eafe8	comment	Follow the White Rabbit: Drafters like Colin and Nikki specialize in giving you a sizeable speed boost by simply drafting behind them; this makes them your best choices as crewmates for Speedtrap events, as you can activate their ability right before a speed trap to reach far higher speeds than your opponents. If Colin or Nikki in that case crosses the finish line first, you as a crew still win the race. Its Nintendo counterparts of Own the City has instead give you a nitrous replenishment when you draft behind them.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_43bda213	type	A Taste of Power
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_43bda213	comment	A Taste of Power: Depending on which version, you get to try your hands on a tuned car before starting off with a starter car. The main version has you start with the BMW M3 GTR from the previous game, Most Wanted (2005) and gets you immediately roped into a chase from Cross, only to end up totaling the car in a crash and having to start anew. In Own The City, Sara lends you her car so you can get back in racing again. Depending on the console, her car can range from an MR2 (PSP), a Mustang (GBA) or an RX-7 (DS).
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_47ea8584	type	Defeat Means Playable
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_47ea8584	comment	Defeat Means Playable: Beating the crew leader of a borough rewards their car to be unlockable in Quick Race mode. If you manage to get the pink slip bonus marker, the crew leader's car is yours to use in Career mode.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_480c69ba	type	Infinity -1 Sword
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_480c69ba	comment	Infinity -1 Sword: If you get the pink slip from the car of the boss of the first borough you dominated, you can use it to blaze through the next two boroughs. In fact, either of the cars are fitted with a few Tier 2 parts that are yet to be unlocked. Not only that but it also saves you money from buying a new Tier 2 car.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_4b621f81	type	Design-It-Yourself Equipment
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_4b621f81	comment	Design-It-Yourself Equipment: Carbon takes its customization up a notch: The game introduces Autosculpt, a customization feature that allows you create minor alterations of certain areas for each part, such as heightening the spoiler's pillar, increasing the size of the exhaust tips note which requires a non-stock Autosculpt rear bumper and deepening the rim's lip. In career mode, you must have either Sal or Colin if you want to get this benefit. Additionally, aftermarket body parts that were also in previous installments are also available. Decals and vinyls can be adjusted and layered multiple times, marking it the first ever to introduce the Livery editor. The game asks you to choose an emblem to best represent you crew. One you selected you can also give certain portions of the emblem different colors of your choosing. The game's car paint system takes further strides, as it now offers a larger color spectrum, as well as choosing the brightness and saturation level. Pearlescent, Candy, Iridescent, Chrome and Matte (which were under the "Custom" category in Most Wanted with limited choices) now has its own categories. Performance parts can be altered by moving a slider to tune their car towards a certain driving attribute. For example, upgrading an engine allows you to bias either for more power peak, but less torque or vise versa. Another would be whether you want a suspension upgrade built to oversteer or understeer. Very useful if you want to maximize the car's capabilities or compensate its weaknesses.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Upon meeting with Darius after defeating the three main crews of Palmont City, he had already figured out that the player was also getting close to the truth behind the stolen prize money that they were being framed for. At that point, he decides that they had outlived their usefulness and surrenders them to Cross just so that he can claim all of the player's conquered territories for his own crew. In the final cutscene of Own the City, Sara says this to the player long after EX, the man who supposedly caused the crash that killed Mick, had been arrested:
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: While seeing that the player is driving the BMW M3 GTR from Most Wanted (2005) might count as one, showing that this game is a sequel, what really seals it is when said car gets hit from behind from a very familiar-looking Corvette and we see its driver: It's Cross.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_4f37c96a	type	Duel Boss
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_4f37c96a	comment	Duel Boss: Canyon Races, which are one-on-one races across the Dangerous Clifftop Road.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_52ae74d	type	Undercover Cop Reveal
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_52ae74d	comment	Undercover Cop Reveal: In Own the City, defeating Corps leader MK makes him reveal to the player that he is actually an undercover cop who is looking into Mick's death and can help them uncover the person who hired Buddy to cause the crash that killed their brother.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_56b5a6b7	type	Nostalgia Level
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_56b5a6b7	comment	Nostalgia Level: The track "Gold Valley Run" is actually a remake of a section of Jackson Heights from Underground 2.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_5730ba86	type	Pop the Tires
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_5730ba86	comment	Pop the Tires: Besides spikes strips being part of the police's regular arsenal, assassins in the PSP version of Own the City are like the blockers in the main version, but with a twist... they place tire-deflating spike strips to puncture the opponents' tires, forcing them to a stop for a period of time. The way they drop spike strips (dropping them from the rear of their cars) would be later adopted by police cars in Hot Pursuit (2010).
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_573b8452	type	Hollywood California
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_573b8452	comment	Hollywood California: Palmont City is based on random areas of California (except San Juan, a small borough which is inaccessible in Career mode, and Silverton, which appears to be more of a stereotypical depiction of Las Vegas). Kempton for the real-life Compton is perhaps the most obvious, being a stand-in for South Central's Gangsterland reputation, while Fortuna, which appears to be the city's high-end residential area, appears to be a stand-in for Orange County or Beverly Hills.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_637ef67	type	New Game Plus
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_637ef67	comment	New Game Plus: Possibly accidental. After getting Game Over from having all your vehicles impounded, you can start a new career within the same profile with all your unlocks and statistics from previously still intact.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_64fa0ea8	type	Random Encounters
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_64fa0ea8	comment	Random Encounters: Free Roam Challenges. Expect a rival crew who will run across you during your session and will challenge the you to a race. Defensive races, where your free roam session is randomly interrupted when a rival crew is attacking your territory and you have to defend it. If you choose to not defend your territory, the attacking crew will automatically take it.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_659702b0	type	Photo Mode
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_659702b0	comment	Photo Mode: This game (specifically the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC versions) debuted a photo mode in the franchise, which allowed players to move the camera around their car.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_65acf9db	comment	Upon meeting with Darius after defeating the three main crews of Palmont City, he had already figured out that the player was also getting close to the truth behind the stolen prize money that they were being framed for. At that point, he decides that they had outlived their usefulness and surrenders them to Cross just so that he can claim all of the player's conquered territories for his own crew.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_6602cad	type	Permanently Missable Content
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_6602cad	comment	Permanently Missable Content: The game features the Porsche 911 GT3 RS (997) as an unlockable car both through gameplay and via purchasing the Custom Car Bundle 1 DLC pack. Problem is, to unlock the car via gameplay, the player has to complete the "Porsche 911 GT3 RS" Reward Card, which among its requirements includes beating an EA Moderator in a ranked online game. With online game having shut down (and online purchases also being shut down not long afterwards), this means that the car now remains permanently locked (outside of mods). Two reward cards are missable if the player completes the game at 100% without completing those remaining reward cars. "Career Mogul" requires you to have at least $1,000,000 in Career Mode. Winning again the same race you won rewards you with a measly 500 or 550 with crew bonus. Completing every race means that you must grind for a lot of days or even months just to get millions. It is required to unlock the Chevrolet Chevelle SS 1970. "Iron Wall" requires you to win 20 defensive races. Defensive races can only trigger if at least one territory is not conquered yet. Conquering every territory makes the achievement unobtainable. It is required to unlock Cross's Chevrolet Corvette Z06.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: Every single character in the game (including Own the City) is only known by their given name. The only exceptions are Sal Mustela, Michael Rogers in Own the City, and technically also Cross, as his name was already given in Most Wanted as Nathan Cross.note Though the police files in Undercover gave his actual full name as Jonathan Cross.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_66f763c0	type	Interface Screw
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_66f763c0	comment	Interface Screw: Crashing, reaching high speeds, landing from a jump, suddenly braking or driving offroad causes the game's HUD to shake.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_672dc4b3	type	Redemption Promotion
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_672dc4b3	comment	Redemption Promotion: As an enemy driver for Kenji's gang, Yumi is usually one of the better AI drivers, but still nothing special. Once she joins your crew? It's likely she'll win every race she enters. This is likely due to Carbon's wingman abilities; Yumi is a scout, meaning she will not only show you where the shortcuts are, she'll also make use of them herself, when most enemy AI do not.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_681077c5	type	Wide-Open Sandbox
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_681077c5	comment	Wide-Open Sandbox: The player can go anywhere in any unblocked zone in Palmont City at anytime in any order they wish. Just expect any Random Encounters, whether a rival crew member approaches you and challenge you to a race or another crew is attacking your territory.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The beginning of Own the City sees the player and their brother Mick suffer a horrific crash in the midst of a high-stakes race, with the former surviving with amnesia and the latter dying from the incident. The last cutscene of the game replays this moment, along with The Reveal from Sara about the player being responsible for the crash as well as their motivation behind it.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_6ca52003	type	Master of All
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_6ca52003	comment	Master of All: Stacked Deck of all the crews drive Tier 3 cars of any car class, with all their strengths and weaknesses combines. Amongst the members is their leader Darius, who is proficient in driving the Audi Le Mans quattro, with near-maxed stats, and it is capable of taking on any track, especially on the canyon roads.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_6dc206c9	type	Marathon Level
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_6dc206c9	comment	Marathon Level: The Collector's Edition of Carbon has the checkpoint track "Around the World" in the challenge series, in which the player has to drive Kenji's Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX around Palmont City. The 7th-gen console feature "Race Wars", a large-scale race mode set in the outermost roads of a district with distances averaging 10-20 miles. The final race of Own the City takes place in the outer roads of Coast City, the longest track in the game.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: For each crew leader the player defeats, one of their crew members will come up to the player asking to be part of the player's crew, while also telling the player that they were there on the night the player was forced to leave Palmont City. As it turns out, each one of them discovered a particular detail about the event that leads the player to deduce that the whole race was a set-up: Yumi caught the police radio's chatter instructing to not target the player's car, Samson saw that the driver of a Chrysler 300C SRT-8, who had been blocking an alley only to back up to allow the player to escape, was actually a plain-clothes police officer, and Colin saw that the man who knocked over Nikki carried a bag identical to hers and switched over the bags. All this leads Nikki to realize that Darius was actually the one who set up the player. The beginning of Own the City sees the player and their brother Mick suffer a horrific crash in the midst of a high-stakes race, with the former surviving with amnesia and the latter dying from the incident. The last cutscene of the game replays this moment, along with The Reveal from Sara about the player being responsible for the crash as well as their motivation behind it.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_73a4d5e4	type	Speed Stripes
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_73a4d5e4	comment	Speed Stripes: If you reach a certain speed (at least 100 mph), speed streaks will emit from your car. If you slipstream behind your crew member who is a Drafter, blue speed streaks will emit from the latter.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_779a531f	type	Improbably Cool Car
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_779a531f	comment	Improbably Cool Car: Carbon was released in 2006 and features the concept versions of the 2008 Dodge Challenger, 2010 Chevrolet Camaro and the Audi Le Mans quattro, a concept car that was later developed into a road car as the Audi R8.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_77aae115	type	Hated by All
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_77aae115	comment	Hated by All: Mick in Own the City. Justified, since he was a total Jerkass to everyone, including his younger brother and his girlfriend. It's implied from Sara's dialogue at the end of the game that this is why the player ended up getting away with arranging Mick's death at the expense of letting EX take the fall.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_77f6cc58	type	100% Completion
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_77f6cc58	comment	Two reward cards are missable if the player completes the game at 100% without completing those remaining reward cars. "Career Mogul" requires you to have at least $1,000,000 in Career Mode. Winning again the same race you won rewards you with a measly 500 or 550 with crew bonus. Completing every race means that you must grind for a lot of days or even months just to get millions. It is required to unlock the Chevrolet Chevelle SS 1970. "Iron Wall" requires you to win 20 defensive races. Defensive races can only trigger if at least one territory is not conquered yet. Conquering every territory makes the achievement unobtainable. It is required to unlock Cross's Chevrolet Corvette Z06.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_7b4ac30a	type	Status Buff
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_7b4ac30a	comment	Status Buff: If your crew member is a mechanic, you get a slight performance boost to your car without the necessary need of upgrading.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_7e5a2811	type	Virtual Paper Doll
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_7e5a2811	comment	Virtual Paper Doll: Car customization isn't limited to only your cars, but you can also give the crew members' cars a unique style and design of your own. Same goes for the PSP version of Own the City.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_81414673	type	AM/FM Characterization
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_81414673	comment	AM/FM Characterization: Each of the crews have their own different music genre that fits with their car class. Members of Bushido have electronic music, which fits with the precise handling evoked by their tuner cars; 21st Street Crew have rock music, with fits with the rough-and-tumble appearance and performance of their muscle cars; and T.F.K. have rap music, which highlights the glam associated with their exotic cars.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_8673b3dc	type	Player-Exclusive Mechanic
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_8673b3dc	comment	Player-Exclusive Mechanic: Crew members who often help you during races are exclusive to you only, something AI-controlled crews don't possess.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_87ce64a0	type	Old Save Bonus
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_87ce64a0	comment	Old Save Bonus: Similar to Most Wanted (2005), Carbon awards $10,000 in cash if the player have a save file of a previous Need for Speed game stored in their memory card. Though this feature is only exclusive to the PlayStation 2 release.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_8879db82	type	Badass Crew
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_8879db82	comment	Badass Crew: One of the central features of the game is that each of the racers, the player included, are part of a racing crew, and the player and their crew have to defeat the other crews to control the city.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Why yes! Just like Most Wanted, don't expect anything less when it comes to cool cars. The car you see when you start the game is none other than an Audi Le Mans Quattro. It also doubles as an Improbably Cool Car as this is a concept model for the Audi R8. It belongs to Darius, leader of Stacked Deck, in which the car is draped in red and black, the colors of said crew. As an Immediate Sequel to Most Wanted the iconic BMW M3 GTR GT (E46) makes a return. Here, the car was totaled for good while escaping from Cross, but you get to drive it in Quick Race mode after completing a reward card as well as one of the races in the Challenge Series. Amongst the bonus cars, you get to drive some of the iconic exotics of its time. Cars like the Porsche 911 GT3 RS (997), the Koenigsegg CCX and the Pagani Zonda F, all three making its debut. Pretty much any car can be this, regardless of it car class or tier. If you modify them, the later ones can be awesome even when stock!
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_8a6d2168	type	Beat Them at Their Own Game
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_8a6d2168	comment	The game features the Porsche 911 GT3 RS (997) as an unlockable car both through gameplay and via purchasing the Custom Car Bundle 1 DLC pack. Problem is, to unlock the car via gameplay, the player has to complete the "Porsche 911 GT3 RS" Reward Card, which among its requirements includes beating an EA Moderator in a ranked online game. With online game having shut down (and online purchases also being shut down not long afterwards), this means that the car now remains permanently locked (outside of mods).
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Mick from Own The City where he died before the story unfolds. This is in fact the first time in the franchise where a character dies in the story. Turns out it was a Karmic Death as it was revealed that Mick was being a total Jerkass towards the player and Sara.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab	type	Non-Standard Game Over
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab	comment	Non-Standard Game Over: Getting busted by the police results in your current vehicle being impounded. If all your vehicles end up being impounded and you don't have enough money to buy another vehicle or pay the impound fee, the game ends and you have to start over again. Even this tip is provided during the Loading Screen.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Mick in Own the City, who the player put a contract on all along for being an abusive asshole to both them and Sara.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_8f1ec2c5	type	Joke Character
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_8f1ec2c5	comment	Joke Character: One of the Challenge Series events puts you... in a Palmont DT1, aka... the garbage truck. Unlike in Most Wanted it has been Promoted to Playable when you complete the reward card tasks.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Drift Events, last seen in Underground 2 return after being absent from Most Wanted. It comes in a stadium drift (akin to Underground series) or in the grueling canyons alone. Nissan also makes a return after the brand alone was absent from Most Wanted due to licensing issues.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: One Darius discovers that Nikki defected to the player's side after discovering that Darius was the one who stole the bag of prize money all those years ago, he starts undergoing one, spending the final part of the game in full Tranquil Fury mode before challenging the player to a final showdown, which he then loses.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_978937d6	type	Brand X
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_978937d6	comment	Brand X: Not done directly, but similar to Most Wanted, cars which aren't sold in North America (like Alfa Romeo) are simply referred to as "sports cars" over police radio chatter, where as others are called out by their manufacturer or at least the specified model to a few cars like the Camaro or the Corvette... otherwise they will say that they can't have a confirmed description about the car. Note that since the game reuses the police chatter audio from Most Wanted, cars that didn't appear or weren't intended to do so in the previous game have their brand calls missing or are just referred as "sports cars".
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_999be790	type	Tech-Demo Game
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_999be790	comment	Tech-Demo Game: The seventh-generation versions as well as the Windows and OS X releases showcased the facial motion capture system which EA flirted with at the time, years before it was further popularised by L.A. Noire.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_9aa17eb0	type	Story Branching
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_9aa17eb0	comment	Story Branching: The game asks you to pick which car class you will start. Depending on which class, you will be starting in either of the three boroughs, whilst Neville and Sal drives the same car class you chosen.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_9b9397bb	type	Difficult, but Awesome
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_9b9397bb	comment	Difficult, but Awesome: Muscle cars in the console versions have some of the best acceleration in the game, being able to go from 0-60 in a matter of seconds, and their top speed is nothing to scoff at, either. The catch? Their handling. Better get used to your car fishtailing or worse, rolling over if you don't get used to their subpar handling when compared to Exotics or especially Tuners. The Corvette Z06 is a shining example as it has acceleration that is outright better than Darius' signature Audi LeMans Quattro. And even with stock performance, it can still carry you through your journey through Silverton to get to Darius.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_a5bc35a3	type	Survived the Beginning
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_a5bc35a3	comment	Survived the Beginning: Sara states that the player is lucky that they survived the accident, while Mick was unfortunate and succumbed to his death.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_a868d6e	type	Version-Exclusive Content
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_a868d6e	comment	Version-Exclusive Content: The Collector's Edition includes additional cars (such as the Nissan 240SX & Jaguar XK), additional customization options, extra tracks and more challenges in Challenge Series. Console-wise, it's exclusive to PC, Xbox 360 and the PS2 The 7th-gen console version introduces Race Wars, a new racing event set in the outermost roads of a district. Up to 20 cars note 12 for PC version can participate in this event. The PSP version gets more exclusive cars that are otherwise not in the main version. Some notable examples are the Pontiac Solstice,note as in the vanilla Solstice and not the GXP variant, which would later appear in ProStreet, the Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am and the 1967 Ford Mustang. Another exclusivity to the PSP is that the Toyota MR2 is fully customizable as oppose to the main version where its treated as a DLC bonus car with no customization options.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_aa58bf92	type	Working with the Ex
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_aa58bf92	comment	Working with the Ex: Darius has Nikki, the player's ex-girlfriend, show the player the ropes on Palmont City's street racing scene. Nikki, who believes that the player betrayed her to steal the prize money from a race years ago, is not amused by this initially. But as she gradually discovers that the player is innocent after all, she warms up to them and ends up joining their crew once it became clear that Darius was the true culprit behind the stolen prize money. By the end of the game, it remains ambiguous as to whether or not the two of them ended up getting back together again.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_ad4a45be	type	Final Boss
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_ad4a45be	comment	In Own the City, EX, serves as the Final Boss, but later Sara asks the player to race her in search for the absolute truth regarding Mick's death, making her the True Final Boss.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_ae2e5e4d	type	All-Stereotype Cast
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_ae2e5e4d	comment	All-Stereotype Cast: The "Tuner", "Muscle" and "Exotic" vehicle classes, which are more or less a stereotyped portrayal of vehicle subcultures prevalent at the time of the game's release.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_aeec99a9	type	Immediate Sequel
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_aeec99a9	comment	Immediate Sequel: The game is a direct sequel to Most Wanted' (2005), with apparently only enough time having passed for Cross to quit the police and become a Bounty Hunter, as he's still chasing the protagonist, who's still driving the BMW M3 GTR GT from Most Wanted.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_b0155044	type	Always Night
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_b0155044	comment	Besides being literally darker in the sense that it returns to the Always Night setting of the Underground games, Carbon's storyline reveals that the player was framed for stealing the prize money of a race the player took part years ago, and all of the racing crews' leaders the player faces in this game were participants in said race, and as a result, the relatively more carefree challenges from the past are now replaced with crews of racers whose leaders hate the player's guts (though the player will eventually have a member from each crew defect to their side). Not to mention that one possible option for a Canyon Duel to end is to having one of the participants thrown out of the road and off a cliff.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_b06ff73b	type	Variable Mix
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_b06ff73b	comment	Variable Mix: During races, the racing theme is no longer a song anymore, but a dynamic theme that changes in tempo as the race progresses, especially during the last stretch of the race.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_b869b5b1	comment	Color Motif: In the main game, the crews of Palmont City are represented in different colors: green for Bushido, blue for T.F.K., yellow for 21st Street Crew and red for Stacked Deck. For Own the City: light blue for the Berserkers, orange for the Eastsiders, pink for the Syrens, purple for Team Mega, green for the Corps, and red for the Krimson Crew.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: The police, in comparison to Most Wanted (2005). In Most Wanted (2005), participating in police chases was pretty much obligatory, as besides competing in a certain amount of races, to advance through the game it was also necessary to rack up a certain amount of police infractions and bounty for each Blacklist member, and in fact, the very final race of the game was against them, as they're led by Cross in an attempt to arrest the player. In Carbon, however, you simply progress through the game via races; the only time police would enter the picture is in certain races that have a high enough level of heat that an appearance by the police in them was inevitable. It gets worse in Own the City, though, when they don't even do that, and the only way to get them to chase you is if you actively ram them during free roam, meaning that police chases in it are 100% optional.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_bbf8683c	type	Near Victory Fanfare
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_bbf8683c	comment	Near Victory Fanfare: The in-game music plays a more intense and dramatic variation of the Variable Mix when you're at least 90% to the finish line.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_bd0796da	type	Dangerous Clifftop Road
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_bd0796da	comment	Dangerous Clifftop Road: The Canyon Duels, as their name indicates, take place through the dangerous canyon roads of Palmont, which have very fragile guardrails on the edges of the cliff that you can break and fall down into the ravine if you're not careful enough. The Canyon Sprint races replace the destructible guardrails with solid barriers that prevent racers from falling off the cliff. How did they change it? Who knows!
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_bdc0a18e	type	Idiosyncratic Wipes
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_bdc0a18e	comment	Idiosyncratic Wipes: Perhaps the most noticeable use of this in the Need for Speed franchise, Carbon uses an effect consisting of an array of X-shaped symbols for scene transitions.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: Blockers like Neville or Samson can take down an opponent down and force them to a stop. Same goes for Brawlers and Assassins for Own the City as their purpose is as similar as Blockers. The PSP version of Own the City has a unique race mode called "Crew Takedown" which has you wreck crew members, Burnout-style.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_c32d3344	type	Disconnected Side Area
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_c32d3344	comment	Disconnected Side Area: San Juan, a small borough of Palmont City is inaccessible in Career mode, despite the area being used in the game's initial tutorial mode. However, there are events in San Juan that are accessible in Quick Race mode. The canyon roads that are outside of the city proper cannot be accessed unless you select a Canyon-based race event.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	comment	Broken Bridge: Unlike in Underground 2 and Most Wanted, Palmont City is almost entirely drivable except for Silverton area which is blocked behind holographic barriers and the player must defeat all three bosses to unlock access to Silverton.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: There's a district of Palmont City called Fortuna and the leader of the crew that controls it is called Wolf. Sound familiar? The Rotor 4, a minor crew that drives tuners, is wrapped in an orange and green pattern, akin to the Mazda 787B that won the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans. Notably, the rotary Mazda vehicles featured in the game are based on the Tuner category. The vinyl design for Nikki's Ford GT is inspired by the Ford GT40 Mk1 that competed in (and won) the 1969 Le Mans, right down to the "6" on the hood and the sides. There is also a specific vinyl available for the Ford GT, allowing you to replicate the iconic Gulf livery from the said GT40. The layout of University Way, a circuit located in Fortuna, blatantly resembles Swiss Alps.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_c8f5c41d	type	Supermodel Strut
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_c8f5c41d	comment	Supermodel Strut: In the fateful race where the player is set up, Nikki is acting as the Pit Girl, and there is a Male Gaze shot of her legs as she confidently struts in front of her cars while swaying her legs and hips from side to side.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_c9eb478e	type	Satchel Switcheroo
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_c9eb478e	comment	Satchel Switcheroo: When Colin asks the player to join their crew, he says that he saw Nikki knocked over by some stranger, and reveals that the stranger had an identical bag, confirming that the bag with the money was switched with one with papers.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_cc1b656	type	Tier System
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_cc1b656	comment	Tier System: Apart from the three different car classes, each of them are divided into 3 tiers: Tier 1: entry-level cars (Mazda RX-8, Chevrolet Camaro SS, Alfa Romeo Brera) Tier 2: mid-level cars (Mitsubishi Eclipse GT, Ford Mustang GT, Lotus Elise) Tier 3: high end cars (Nissan Skyline GT-R R34, Dodge Viper SRT-10, Porsche Carrera GT)
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In Own the City, the protagonist's motivation for carving his way through the street racing scene is to find the man who caused the crash that killed their brother and left them with amnesia. Subverted at the end when they discover they had caused it themselves.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_d2f85cfc	type	Damage-Proof Vehicle
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_d2f85cfc	comment	Damage-Proof Vehicle: The game opens with a race at the end of which the player's M3 GTR is "totaled" in a crash. Since it's a licensed car, all damage to it occurs during a Discretion Shot, and you never see it afterward. Averted with police vehicles deployed at higher heat levels, which are actually licensed vehicles in cop livery and are susceptible to the same rigors the generic Crown Vic expies sustain.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_d639cf57	type	Reformulated Game
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_d639cf57	comment	Reformulated Game: The PSP, GBA, and Zeebo version of Carbon, Own the City, features a different storyline and characters, and set in a different city. Downplayed with the sixth-gen console versions, which are for all intents and purposes the same game as the PC and seventh-gen releases, except that, apart from graphical downgrades, it has a cap of four cars in a race instead of eight and lacks facial motion capture cutscenes. The GameCube version in particular suffered the most as it notoriously compressed the textures to a muddied, Vaseline-smeared mess due to storage limitations. The arcade version uses around 5% of the content from the main version, just without crew members, a non-existent story, Rubber-Band A.I. and a time limit.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3	type	Anti-Frustration Features
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3	comment	Anti-Frustration Features: Unlike Underground 2 or Most Wanted where you have to drive to the tune shops to upgrade or customize your car (you cannot fast travel, though), Carbon on the other hand allows you to do this feature at the safehouse. You can just simply pause, then select "Return to Safe House". Very useful if you don't want cops finding you. The same goes when you head for the Car Lot if you want to buy a new car. In Most Wanted, if cops swarms you enough to put your vehicle into a complete stop, it is always guaranteed you'll get busted with no way out. Here, the cops will back off shortly before the busted meter completely fills up, giving you a small opportunity to escape the cops before they'll get you. In Carbon, intentionally racking up heat is optional, only for the reward cards, instead of for progressing the storyline. Your Crew Members provide you with a solid cushion on many fronts whenever available - not only will they always keep up with you regardless of what you're driving (in the console games, they level with you in car tiersnote Save for Nikki, who always drives her signature Ford GT regardless of what tier car you're driving. ), but if they cross the finish line before you do, it still counts as a win for you as well.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_d9d2c40b	type	Amazon Brigade
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_d9d2c40b	comment	Amazon Brigade: The Syrens in Own the City are a street racing version of this.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_da4f8f0	type	The Blacksmith
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_da4f8f0	comment	The Blacksmith: If your crew member has a fabrication specialty, Autosculpt in career mode will be available, allowing you to alter certain areas for each part.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_dd43121c	type	Money Multiplier
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_dd43121c	comment	Money Multiplier: If your crew member is a fixer, during a race, you get an extra cash bonus for every win.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_de3c879e	type	Unnaturally Blue Lighting
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_de3c879e	comment	Unnaturally Blue Lighting: In contrast with the Real Is Brown aesthetic of its daytime-set predecessor, Most Wanted (2005), Carbon has its night scenes tinted with high-tech blue.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: One involving the girl in charge of starting the races. One of the race start cutscenes featuring her features an angle where the viewer can easily see a clear view of her rear.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_e2c4b927	type	Dub Name Change
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_e2c4b927	comment	Dub Name Change: The Japanese release refer to the "Tuner" and "Exotic" car classes as "Standard" and "High-End", respectively, though the "Muscle" designation is retained. This may be chalked up to cultural differences particularly within Japanese car culture especially with the JDM scene which the Tuner class portrays.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_e38c6149	type	Settle for Sibling
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_e38c6149	comment	Settle for Sibling: After Sara lost her boyfriend Mick in a car crash, whom she had an abusive relationship with, she ends up settling for the player at the end of Own the City knowing that they've arranged their older brother's death to save her from him.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_e44a1a70	type	Bounty Hunter
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_e44a1a70	comment	Bounty Hunter: Carbon reveals that, following the events of Most Wanted (2005), Sergeant Cross left the Rockport Police Department in order to become a bounty hunter and goes on a vendetta towards the player.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_e5898915	type	In-Vehicle Invulnerability
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_e5898915	comment	In-Vehicle Invulnerability: It's possible for each Crew Boss (including Darius) to end up falling off the track during a canyon duel and wreck their car by a small chance. However, this will not affect the game's storyline, though: Kenji, Angie and/or Wolf will still come back as new members of Darius's crew, and Darius will still give you his departing cutscene.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Subverted with the Syrens in Own the City, who are all named Layla along with a number to identify each other with.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_eea06f9a	comment	Artistic License â€“ Cars: The game's car classification system, which divides cars into "Tuners", "Muscles", and "Exotics", is a gross oversimplification of car types, as in real life vehicles have wider and more specific classifications than just "tuner", "muscle" and "exotic"; this system being clearly based on the distinct vehicle subcultures of the time. Vehicle tiering is this as well, as you'll never see, in stock at least, a Lancer Evolution IX being in the same performance category as the Lamborghini MurciÃ©lago. In a more specific use of this trope, the classic muscle cars in the base roster, such as the 1967 Chevrolet Camaro SS or the 1969 Dodge Charger R/T, are fitted with a 5-speed gearbox at stock performance. Most of those cars, even at its highest performing models, offer only 4 gears. Darius drives an Audi Le Mans quattro, which is basically the 2003 concept of the Audi R8. However, the car doesn't look like its concept model, as the front, back and exhaust pipes look more like those of the Audi R8 production model, production of which started in June of the same year as the game's release.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_f06b07ff	comment	Locked Out of the Loop: The player in Own the City spends the entire game searching across Coast City for the racer responsible for the crash that killed their brother, unaware that they had caused it themselves but didn't knew because the same crash also left them with amnesia. Meanwhile, Sara knew the truth behind the crash the entire time and tried to dissuade the player from finding it out, out of fear that they would somehow end up becoming just as bad as Mick.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_f11c3835	comment	Anti-Grinding: In Career mode, playing any of the races you already completed will only net you 500 cash. Averted in Own the City, however, where you earn the same amount of money as you did before their completion.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_f1967a2	comment	Starter Mon: Following the wreck of your M3 GTR GT, you'll be given a starter car by choosing what car class you pick; a Mazda RX-8 for Tuners, a 1967 Chevrolet Camaro SS for Muscle and an Alfa Romeo Brera for Exotic. In Own the City after racing with Sara's car, you'll get to choose between a Mazda Mazdaspeed 3, a Nissan 240SX, and a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX to start your career with. Neville is the first member to join your crew and he will often help you in the first 5 races until you unlock Sal, another starter crew member, if you choose to hire him of fire the former. In Own the City, Lucky Sevens' Kita and Dylan are your starting crew members. Carter is also another of your starter crew members, but only for the PSP version.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: The player uses a T-Mobile cellphone when opening the messages menu. There was a Mazda billboard promoting the 2006 MX-5, but said car never appeared in the game. One billboard displays a political ad for◊ Barack Obama for its time being, possibly to help target a young gamer demographic. Though this billboard would also appear in other EA titles, such as NHL 09, NBA Live 08 and NFS's own sequel, ProStreet.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The PSP version of Own the City takes place in Coast City, which its map is basically a mirrored and modified version of Rockport, the city from Most Wanted, minus Camden Beach.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_f802c31	comment	Time Rewind Mechanic: Exclusively to the Nintendo DS of Own The City, beating MK unlocks you the ability to rewind time back at any point by simply holding the SELECT button.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_f8f30ffe	type	Level in Reverse
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_f8f30ffe	comment	Level in Reverse: Some Canyon events can be this trope. Examples like Devil's Creek Pass and Lookout Point have the same track layout. The only difference is one of it is mirrored.
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Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: In Own The City, the player, after years of being bossed around and mentally and verbally abused by his older brother Mick, caused the crash which killed him, by paying off EX to kill Mick.
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