Somehow has the opposite problem of Most Wanted, where Most Wanted would have been a 10 if it was shorter, Carbon would have been a 10 if it was longer.
Okay so I started playing this game last night, at midnight, I was really enjoying it, like really really enjoying it, I thought to myself this was the peak of the series, it had improved on just about everything (cop chases aside but thats not the focus of this game so oh well).
5 hours later I noticed the time and thought okay I'll finish this boss race thing and go to sleep and honestly I think the game heard me because that was the last race before the credits rolled. To say I was disappointed is putting it mildly.
Ofcourse I knew this game was short, but I didn't think it would be this short, hell someone that's actually good at these games could prb do it in an even shorter amount of time than 5 hours without even rushing. All you need to do is beat all the bosses, not even control all the territories or do even half the races.
Yeah if you do everything the game will be longer but, speaking for myself, once the credits roll I'm just kinda done with the game and ready to move on, even if it's short and I want more, there's no reason to keep going, I've already seen the end I'll just get bored.
Story is whatever, it's fine, characters are still cheesy and hard to take seriously but in a funny way. Probably more interesting than in Most Wanted but not as iconic. The driving is a bit slower I think, at the start it is but you start reaching higher speeds relatively fast and it doesn't feel that much slower. Handling is just right, car progression is nice, you unlock stuff by finishing certain races. I do have an issue with this however, I wish that when looking at a part for my car, it would let me jump to the event that unlocks it, instead of having me search for it which just results in me giving up and just hoping I unlock it eventually. Not that big of a deal but it would have made things nice, even if admittedly the game would have been a lot easier that way.
Open World is a bit pointless this time around, I was in 2 cop chases the whole game and honestly they were a bit frustrating in this one, felt like the game was always spawning cops in front of me whenever I would almost get away and make it impossible to escape. The game doesn't really feel like it's build with cops in mind, they were just added in because it's the sequel to Most Wanted and thus needs cops.
The drift "challenges" were nice, the one in the canyon was a pain in the ass but the rest were really fun although very easy. The boss fights (?) were an interesting idea, with them having 2 phases, first one you need to tail the opponent and you get points for that, closer you are the more points you get. And in the 2nd phase it flips around and now you are the one being tailed, the points from the first phase carry on but now you're losing them and the closer the enemy is the more points you lose, get more than 0 points by the end and you win I guess.
They're fine all things considered. They all take place in the canyons for some reason, I guess they work well enough to not make the game any worse, but they don't make it much better either truth be told. Boss fights in racing games feels like a puzzle with no solution, I've yet to see one that's actually good (though I'm still new to racing games so maybe I'll find a good one eventually) but eh credit where credit is due, they were actually trying to make interesting boss fights in this game, better than in Most Wanted where they just put you in multiple events back to back and that was kinda it.
The territory system is a neat idea that doesn't really become as interesting as it should, best way to enjoy that part is by downloading the battle royale mod, it's not an actual battle royale like fortnite or pubg or whatever. It just makes the game's territory system not scripted and thus things become more interesting as all the factions seem to be fighting themselves instead of you fighting all the factions. Also adds in a lot of stuff I believe, makes the game longer and harder. With that mod the game prb becomes a 10.
Though the game itself doesn't get any extra points for a mod made over a decade after the game released, obviously.
Had they have gotten another year or at least a few more months, I feel this game could have really been a masterpiece, not that being simply amazing is bad, but you get the sense it could have been more and the devs really wanted to do more but didn't have the time.
It's sad but at least they did manage to make something special with this one. Things are only going down from here.
Okay so I started playing this game last night, at midnight, I was really enjoying it, like really really enjoying it, I thought to myself this was the peak of the series, it had improved on just about everything (cop chases aside but thats not the focus of this game so oh well).
5 hours later I noticed the time and thought okay I'll finish this boss race thing and go to sleep and honestly I think the game heard me because that was the last race before the credits rolled. To say I was disappointed is putting it mildly.
Ofcourse I knew this game was short, but I didn't think it would be this short, hell someone that's actually good at these games could prb do it in an even shorter amount of time than 5 hours without even rushing. All you need to do is beat all the bosses, not even control all the territories or do even half the races.
Yeah if you do everything the game will be longer but, speaking for myself, once the credits roll I'm just kinda done with the game and ready to move on, even if it's short and I want more, there's no reason to keep going, I've already seen the end I'll just get bored.
Story is whatever, it's fine, characters are still cheesy and hard to take seriously but in a funny way. Probably more interesting than in Most Wanted but not as iconic. The driving is a bit slower I think, at the start it is but you start reaching higher speeds relatively fast and it doesn't feel that much slower. Handling is just right, car progression is nice, you unlock stuff by finishing certain races. I do have an issue with this however, I wish that when looking at a part for my car, it would let me jump to the event that unlocks it, instead of having me search for it which just results in me giving up and just hoping I unlock it eventually. Not that big of a deal but it would have made things nice, even if admittedly the game would have been a lot easier that way.
Open World is a bit pointless this time around, I was in 2 cop chases the whole game and honestly they were a bit frustrating in this one, felt like the game was always spawning cops in front of me whenever I would almost get away and make it impossible to escape. The game doesn't really feel like it's build with cops in mind, they were just added in because it's the sequel to Most Wanted and thus needs cops.
The drift "challenges" were nice, the one in the canyon was a pain in the ass but the rest were really fun although very easy. The boss fights (?) were an interesting idea, with them having 2 phases, first one you need to tail the opponent and you get points for that, closer you are the more points you get. And in the 2nd phase it flips around and now you are the one being tailed, the points from the first phase carry on but now you're losing them and the closer the enemy is the more points you lose, get more than 0 points by the end and you win I guess.
They're fine all things considered. They all take place in the canyons for some reason, I guess they work well enough to not make the game any worse, but they don't make it much better either truth be told. Boss fights in racing games feels like a puzzle with no solution, I've yet to see one that's actually good (though I'm still new to racing games so maybe I'll find a good one eventually) but eh credit where credit is due, they were actually trying to make interesting boss fights in this game, better than in Most Wanted where they just put you in multiple events back to back and that was kinda it.
The territory system is a neat idea that doesn't really become as interesting as it should, best way to enjoy that part is by downloading the battle royale mod, it's not an actual battle royale like fortnite or pubg or whatever. It just makes the game's territory system not scripted and thus things become more interesting as all the factions seem to be fighting themselves instead of you fighting all the factions. Also adds in a lot of stuff I believe, makes the game longer and harder. With that mod the game prb becomes a 10.
Though the game itself doesn't get any extra points for a mod made over a decade after the game released, obviously.
Had they have gotten another year or at least a few more months, I feel this game could have really been a masterpiece, not that being simply amazing is bad, but you get the sense it could have been more and the devs really wanted to do more but didn't have the time.
It's sad but at least they did manage to make something special with this one. Things are only going down from here.