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Need for Speed Carbon

Excellent Game!

Written by BN from Portland

Feb 16, 2009

I love this game! I have it for my Nintendo Wii and now for my Macbook. The graphics are great, the only problem is that sometimes when i go to exit the program, after I select yes i would like to quit, it freezes. It only happened twice out of 7 times or so but that is the only thing that i would look into. If you like Need for Speed games, then definitely look into buying this one!

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Need for Speed Carbon

Speed!

Written by MD from Milano

Dec 14, 2007

Fast and good games. One of the best on Mac now, sure the best for cars.
And it works on Leopard too.

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Need for Speed Carbon

Excellent adrenalin pumping game...

Written by DO from Jamaica

Sep 12, 2007

First off all, the folks claiming that they are getting low framerates, lags and bla bla, either have to be lying or they are doing something wrong.
I have a 17" iMac 2.0ghz C2Duo, 2GB RAM, 128mb Ati X1600 and i couldn't believe how smooth, and i mean smooth and tight this game runs. Installed first day, and i was racing left and right. The cars are so tight and fast, that i get a rush when playing.
This game runs perfect on my system, not one hiccup as the folks below are mentioning. And you absolutely do not need a Mac Pro to run this smoothly, please!! Go get this game !!

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Need for Speed Carbon

Awesome

Written by KL from Duluth

May 20, 2009

This is seriously one of the best games for mac. The graphics are pretty amazing, considering it was made in 2006. Also it works with my logitech controller so thats a plus.
For all u people saying it doesn't work with leopard, I don't know what you're doing, because it works just fine on my imac.

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Need for Speed Carbon

Perfect

Written by MC from London

Sep 30, 2007

This game runs awesome on a MacBook Pro. I don't know why people are complaining about crashes and graphic related problems.

I suggest anyone with problems should check their configuration. The MacBook's don't have the top notch graphic cards however you can expect a playable game with the configuration set right.

Already finished the game in two days!

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Need for Speed Carbon

really good!

Written by VH from Bismarck

Jan 6, 2009

ive been playing need for speed from the ps2 and ps3 and now i have a mac and i bought carbon for it and im really glad i did.

It has all the features of the regular game
controls are easy
loads fast
graphics are also good

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Need for Speed Carbon

if you love racing get this game!!

Written by JF from SOUTH HAMILTON

Nov 16, 2008

EA has come out with many need for speed games but this is the best yet. with hundreds of races to do and lots of cars to choose from, you'll be engaged into the game for hours at a time. plus the short videos in between the races are clearer than ever, its hard to tell if they're real or not. this game is sure to entertain anyone.

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Need for Speed Carbon

Runs Great, People neeed too look at graphic cards!

Written by SP from West Linn

Sep 20, 2007

I have a Mac Pro and this thing screams. People are getting a bunch of ram and really fast processors and don't get me wrong that stuff really helps! But people need to get good graphic cards in there mac's too. You can't expect to get perfect graphics out of a 256Mb card.

I have a NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 512MB and this thing runs perfect on all the highest settings. People can not get the cheapest graphic cards and expect to get the perfect screen play. You need to get everything from processor and ram TO A GOOD GRAPHICS'S CARD.

So don't complain when you get a cheaper card if you want stunning graphics's you will have to pay for it, but IT IS WORTH IT!!!

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Need for Speed Carbon

Absolutely love the game

Written by EG from Cedar Knolls

Aug 28, 2007

I've been waiting for the release ever since EA announced developing the game on the Mac platform. Been playing it for more than a week now and all I can say is they did a wonderful job. I may not be able to maximize the graphics potential of the game since I'm running on a 2gig RAM first revision MBP, but to me, what matters most is that there is an effort on EA to bring their titles into the Mac platform which also gives non-Mac users no excuse to use Macs for gaming. Again, I'm am an extremely satisfied fan of NFSC on the Mac platform!!!

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Need for Speed Carbon

Great Racing Game for the Mac

Written by TS from Rittman

Sep 23, 2008

I found this game to be awesome, I was so exited when i found it for mac. Since I've changed over from PC I assumed i would lose the gaming functionality of my mac but not so!

Other people seem to have had problems, but I'm running a Macbook Pro 2.4 with 2 gb of ram and 10.5.5 and have had no problems with it doing anything strange. It heats up the computer a little bit but that is about all. Other than that I love it!

Can't wait for the next NFS installment...

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Need for Speed Carbon

AMAZING GAME

Written by AR from Toronto

Sep 27, 2007

This game runs perfectly, has great graphics and could not be more fun.

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Need for Speed Carbon

Love it

Written by MH from CASTLE ROCK

Aug 26, 2007

I have no idea what the guy under me is talking about this game works great on my mac pro I have a 30 inch screen and 4 gig ram and one terrabite it works like the game is high definition.

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Need for Speed Carbon

It's all about the Graphics Card

Written by EG from Silver Spring

Oct 7, 2007

Ok I'm tired of watching you people slamming the game with 1 and 2 starts because you can't get it to work. It works just fine. I have the X1900 graphics card. You don't have to have a 30 inch screen and a Mac Pro to run this game. My one complaint is that they don't have what I would call a great variety of racing grounds on the streets because they tend to look similar. But other than it's an awesome game worth every penny. Car upgrades are great to. Have fun. Only sound drawback is the fact that it does not work with USB speakers. Which I have the Bose Companion 5s but it works with your internal speakers, but I love using my headphones.
Anyway good luck, it's a fun game, stop complaining

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Need for Speed Carbon

Runs great on LEOPARD

Written by CJ from SCHERMBECK

Jul 18, 2008

works great without any problems. i´m using an imac 2.0

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Need for Speed Carbon

BEST GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Written by KM from New York

Jan 4, 2009

THE BEST GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A real good game. I recamend it to EVERYBODY. I mean dude, who could ever think of shuch a GREAT game. I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Need for Speed Carbon

AWESOME

Written by DB

Oct 19, 2007

this game is awesome like there is no ups and downs its just ups

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Need for Speed Carbon

runs much BETTER on leopard

Written by JD from moose jaw

Oct 30, 2007

Well Ill start of by saying i wasn't too impressed with this game when i first bought it. It was quite slow & Choppy, plus it kept kicking me out of the game in the first quarter of the first lap of the first game. I was excited to get it and happy to see it go... Then, Steve the magic Apple fairy came down from heaven and blessed this Earth with awesomeness to be know world wide as " L E O P A R D ", I thought after spending countless hours installing all of my programs , hey why not give it one more try. One word people " W O W ", the graphics and lighting and sound all suddenly came together to form NFS Carbon,

Anyways i thought i would let you all know that on a intel 2.4 macbook pro need for speed works perfectly when united in glory with Leopard.

running:
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
GeForce 8600M GT

even with this i cried when it wouldn't work on tiger so well

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Need for Speed Carbon

SO Great!!!!

Written by MK from san Diego

Sep 22, 2007

I just got it yestoday! Like it so much!

Very fun!

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