Online services such as leaderboards and matchmaking will stay active until August 31, at which point all five games will be relegated to strictly offline play.Ĭommunity manager Max Myrus took to the Need for Speed subreddit to deliver the news, explaining why retirement for these games has come. All five games will no longer be purchasable from digital storefronts and players can't participate in their in-game economies to buy things like car parts and currencies. Online services for these games will cease operations in August.Ĭarbon, Shift, Shift 2: Unleashed, The Run, and Undercover are the Need for Speed games that are being prepared for retirement. They all have helped MANY people.Several older Need for Speed games will be removed from digital stores and have their in-game economies shuttered starting May 31, publisher EA announced. Like, win 20 defensive races can't be done. But the tasks are like immobilize this many police vehicles, Etc.īut the cards have some tasks that can't be completed. They require you to complete a task to unlock some cool rewards. Now, the other REALLY dumb thing is that their are things called reward cards. Graphics are not as good as Most Wanted, but the fact that your racing at night is cool, because of your headlights. Acceleration is usually the worst, and handling second best. And finally, Exotics are the SPEEDSTERS that are the fastest. They have the best handling, but horrible speed and acceleration. they DOMINATE in Acceleration, then their speed is next best, but the downside on Muscles is their POOR handling. Now, moving on, the cars are divided into classes: Muscles, Tuners and Exotics. So, your forced I repeat, FORCED to move up to a tier three car. So, it is no match in the later races where all your rivals use tier three cars. So, say your favorite car, is the Ford Mustang GT. Then, tier three the cars can be as tuned to the max as possible, but the performance will still NEVER fill all three stat bars!!! It stinks. Then, tier two, the cars get slightly better. The first tier are that garbage cars, that can't have the performance maxed out. First, the cars you can use are divided into 'tiers'. Ok, this game is not as good as the prequel Most Wanted. Need For Speed Carbon Wii, GC, Xbox, PS2, PC

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