Home

Need for Speed Carbon

Very Fun

Written by LD from Mississauga

Mar 13, 2009

Great, fun game. Lots of so called "missions," places to explore, near countless races to compete in, and plenty of cars and subsequent modifications for said car options. Runs very well (and looks good) on my Mac mini (Early 2009 with Geforce 9400 graphics) once the graphic settings are optimized.

82 of 102 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

Works for me.

Written by KY from Charleston

May 19, 2008

Plenty of fun, and seems to work as it should. I'm using Leopard 10.5.2 and an Imac with 8800GS graphics.

78 of 126 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

nfsc vs Leopard

Written by PF from teramo

Nov 2, 2007

don't work with mac os 10.5 leopard

44 of 61 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

addictive

Written by MP from Ottawa

Oct 18, 2007

First, the good. This game is so good. I had to put it away as I just wanted to keep playing it, and race the next race. The intensity of the other races, along with the police chases simultaneous is sweet.
Second, the bad (not too much to say). Okay, so there is no widescreen. Too bad. I hope EA is working overtime to fix this problem. There is also some lag within certain races, and my new mac book is mac daddy.
Great game!

35 of 50 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

Not perfect but nice game

Written by TK from Vienna

Oct 4, 2007

Have it running on a V1 Macbook Pro with 2Ghz but with the 256MB Grafikcard. Too bad it doesn't run in widescreen, but runs with high detail fluently.
Nice game for fans of the Series, and to show off to your friends that your Mac can play games. :)

48 of 76 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

Excellent playability

Written by MA from Rochester

Sep 28, 2007

The game is excellent! The cars are very beautifully designed (looks very realistic), and the game plays very well with highest settings on my Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo, X1600 128MB laptop. The lack of widescreen support is a MINOR drawback...when you're in the action, do you look at the black bars on the side, or the center of the game? Great game overall!

47 of 61 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

fun game but...

Written by LL from Merrill

Sep 27, 2007

I've got a first generation 24" iMac that meets all the system requiremenst but when I run the game on the higest resolution, the frame rate takes a noticable slow down. I'm going to add another GB of RAM to see if that helps. Other than that, this is a fun game to play.

27 of 49 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

Way to go, EA!

Written by CS from The Hague

Sep 26, 2007

After years of jealous looks over the fence, one can now enjoy one of the best racing games ever on the (Intel-)Mac. Running flawlessly on my 15" Macbook Pro 2.16 Ghz Core 2 Duo (ATI X1600 128MB graphics), I’m thrilled with excitement about this title. The cars feel extremely real, the gameplay is perfect, there are lots of playing modes, and you can tune 'till you drive the car you always dreamed of. Graphics and sound are also excellent. Only drawback is the lack of widescreen support, if this would be added I'll clearly rate it 5 stars.

34 of 42 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

Mixed feelings

Written by RM from Brunswick

Sep 23, 2007

I have a 2.4 Ghz MacBook Pro (LED) w/2 GB RAM. NFSC constantly crashes and is essentially unplayable. This could be due to the graphics card in the MBP. On the other hand, it does play nicely on my iMac CoreDuo 1.83 Ghz w/1 GB RAM. It would have been nice to see it running on the MacBook Pro which was the machine I originally wanted to use it on. Perhaps EA (or Apple with a graphics driver update) will issue a patch in the near future to allow this. I'm giving NFSC a 4 since it works well on the iMac, but 0 stars for the MacBook Pro.

34 of 48 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

Complaints? No!

Written by RL from Hot Springs

Sep 19, 2007

I am using a 1.33 GHz Powerbook G4 and it works with no problems!

61 of 101 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

No wide screen support makes game seem dated.

Written by LM from Piermont

Sep 19, 2007

This is the grand porting of ea games to mac and what you get is an xbox like version not the 360 widescreen version.
I just wrote a long review and I ran out of apple time and my review was erased *&^%$$ dang it all. But EA should look at id's Quake 4, it has 16:10 resolution settings for apple flat panel monitors, 16:9 res for hooking your mac to a wide screen tv that was new to any mac game and it rocks playing quake full wide screen on my hd tv and quake is at least 2 years old. Carbon is only 4:3. No one really uses crts any more do they. Oh I can't wait to use my Svideo out of my mac to hook it up to my old crt tv. If I wanted to do that I would just get the old xbox version. It is a great game and runs well on my first gen macbook pro with 2 gigs of ram and 256 video ram. I will cry if madden is the same and does not support wide screen. I know the pc version does. For a grand roll out I would say they did the minimum to port this to mac. Disappointing EA. And not universal means I can't play it on my G5 duel 2.7. Which is my most powerful gaming box.
On the plus side my old gravis game pad pro works great with the game. Did I just say old again, this does seem dated! I still give this 4 stars because it is the best driving game I have played on a mac thus far, and a lot of fun. Some new games crash your computer this has been very solid for it's first version, hopefully they will update it and give us the wide screen resolutions!!

40 of 60 people found this useful