While the cars still do feel very similar to one another, there are three different classes this time around that do each have their own unique characteristics. And yes, everything still takes place at night. Cars are easy to drive and largely feel very similar, courses are generally long and winding with a few sharp turns here and there, and traffic is reasonably sparse. When it comes to the actual racing in Need for Speed Carbon, EA has largely stayed true to the same formula it's used forever. Drafters can also be somewhat helpful at times, though you have to ride in their line to make use of the speed burst, which isn't always ideal. Scouts are decent to use the first time or two in a specific section if you're not very good at finding shortcuts (which isn't hard at all), though once you know where they are they're not of much use. This system works reasonably well, though Brawlers are far and away the most useful wingmen since they can hold off other vehicles. Scouts will always take the quickest route through a track, helping you find the shortcuts, and Drafters will set up a nice wake in their path and allow you to gain some speed. Brawlers will crash into an opponent and take them out of the race for a bit. These wingmen come in three types: Brawlers, Scouts and Drafters. You're allowed to have up to three crew members at any one time, and one of the three members of your choosing will race with you in applicable events. Tying into the territory thing is your racing crew. It would have been cooler if you couldn't retry, giving the whole scenario a more back-and-forth and dynamic feel, though that doesn't quite fit in with the game's very arcadey setup. This whole system is reasonably cool in setup, though since you're allowed to retry any race you fail you're never really in much danger of losing anything you've earned.
After you're in possession of a territory, other crews will occasionally try to take them from you and you're prompted to compete in a defending race. Each territory has a number of individual races, and taking over more than half of them will earn you the territory. Need for Speed Carbon's single-player story is focused around taking over and defending territories. Like the Canyon races, they're basically tests of how far you want to push your car to win. The drift races wind up being a decent bit of simplistic fun. You'll get bonus multipliers for stringing multiple turns together, but that's about as complex as it gets, for better or worse. Rather than being based on moves like faints or over-steering, everything is based on speed and how sideways you can get. Drifting is very arcadey in Carbon, with a simple tap of the brake being all you need to put the car into a slide. One returning competition type from the Underground games is drift racing. It's pretty cool in concept, though we wish they were more prevalent in the game. These races are pretty cool in that the side of the track is a simple barrier that overlooks a very long drop, so if you push your car too much you may wind up at the bottom of the canyon in a heaping wreck. After finishing enough races to take over a territory on the map, you'll meet up with that crew's boss along a cliff side in a winner-take-all competition. The main new race type in Carbon is the Canyon races. We're certainly supportive of this design.
Cop Heat is still an issue that you'll have to contend with, however, meaning that while the cops have taken a backseat to the actual racing, they're still prevalent. While cops are still about, you don't need to build up evasion runs like you did in Most Wanted to progress. Many of the race modes from Most Wanted have returned, namely things like the Speedtrap races.
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