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| NFS C: Soundtrack announced |
Wednesday, 20.09.2006 |
 Electronic Arts published the Soundtrack of Need for Speed Carbon today:
Redwood City, Calif., September 19, 2006 -- Fasten your seatbelts for the most intense ride of the year as EA redefines the sound of street racing with Need for Speed(tm) Carbon. For this long-awaited new chapter in the top-selling franchise, EA(tm) Trax has created an international soundtrack of 30 diverse cuts that reflect the game's three distinct car classes; exotics, muscles and tuners. The riff-heavy power of such bands as Kyuss, Eagles of Death Metal, UK's Metro Riots and Australia's Wolfmother fuels the Muscle Cars. For the game's Japanese Tuner Cars, the soundtrack delivers a newly revitalized sub-genre of electronic music known as 'Electro' originally pioneered by Gary Numan and personified by such artists as UK's Ladytron and Goldfrapp, Australia's The Presets, Japan's melody. and Canada's Tiga. Exotic cars are represented by a mix of the new UK Grime scene with artists such as Lady Sovereign, Roots Manuva and Sway, International Hip Hop from Pharrell, and Philadelphia's Spank Rock. And while the different crews may compete head-to-head, the three music genres combine to create what may be the most compelling and combustible game soundtrack of the year.
"Street racing is an international outlaw sport with a velocity all its own," said Steve Schnur, Worldwide Executive of Music and Marketing at EA. "Need for Speed Carbon takes a cinematically sonic approach to the sport's different personalities and the crews that rule it. We've spent close to a year working with artists and labels from around the world to ensure that not only does the music capture the true hardcore styles of the sport, it also pushes it forward with breakthrough new artists. By combining these genres, we've now taken the premier street racing simulation brand in the industry to an unstoppable new level."
The complete in-game soundtrack for Need for Speed Carbon includes:
Artist - Song
Dynamite MC - Bounce
Dynamite MC - After Party
Eagles Of Death Metal - Don't Speak (I Came to Make A Bang!)
Ekstrak feat. Know-1 - Hard Drivers
Every Move A Picture - Signs Of Life
Gary Numan/Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric
Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - Scorpio
Goldfrapp - Ride A White Horse (Serge Santiago Remix)
Kyuss - Hurricane
Lady Sovereign - Luv Me Or Hate Me
Ladytron - Sugar (Jagz Kooner Remix)
Ladytron - Fighting In Built Up Areas
melody. - FEEL THE RUSH (Junkie XL Remix)
Metro Riots - Thee Small Faces
Part 2 feat. Fallacy - One Of Dem Days (Remix)
Pharrell feat. Lauren - Skateboard P Presents: Show You How To Hustle
Priestess - I Am The Night, Colour Me Black
Roots Manuva - No Love
Spank Rock - What It Look Like
Sway - Hype Boys
The Bronx - Around The Horn
The Presets - Steamworks
The Vacation - I'm No Good
Tiga - Good As Gold
Tigarah - Girl Fight (Mr. D Hyphy Mix)
Tomas Andersson - Washing Up (Tiga Remix)
Valient Thorr - Heatseeker
Vitalic - My Friend Dario
Wolfmother - Joker And The Thief
Yonderboi - People Always Talk About The Weather (Junkie XL Remix)
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| Rumour: Need for Speed: The Island (Update) |
Tuesday, 19.09.2006 |
 Driving with tuned cars on an island, passing by sunny beaches and drifting in snowy mountains around the curves? Beside you take care of the every-days life of a family and you even find time to create and manage a theme park on this island? Sounds strange...and maybe it is...
According to a newspost of the german onlinemagazine PCGames Aussie-Nintendo.com reported about an extraordinary concept of Electronic Arts: THE ISLAND
With The Island the publisher wants to create a virtual, approximately 1,500 km² big island, where well-known gaming series take place. The island itself should be split into different regions and offer everything from sunny beaches to snowy mountains.
The island with three games starts on November 14th:
Need for Speed: The Island will allow you to drive with tuned cars around the idyllic island. You can have up to 15 computer-controlled opponents or you drive in network mode against seven human opponents. Additionally it should contain a free-roaming mode, where you can drive on the 1,600 km long street system.
In The Sims: The Island you take care of a Sim, be it in the mountains, the coast or in the busy city. Who loses interest in the story-mode, free game or the free online-gaming after some time, can decide together with a friend in the cooperative splitscreen-mode about the lives of the sims.
In the end The Island will please all simulation-fans with Theme Park: The Island where you have to built up a functioning theme park, develop new attractions and displace your enemies. A nice feature will be, that you can let your Sims from 'The Sims: The Island' work in your park or let them visit the park. In the online-mode friends can also admire your theme park.
How all these games will be connected with each other, we get to know after the release. More The Island-titles are planned for 2007.
Unfortunately the newspost from the original source (aussie-nintendo.com) has been taken offline, so there is no more information.
It looks more like an April Fool - in the middle of September. Since Need for Speed Carbon will be released at the beginning of November this year, the release of a second NFS is quite implausible...
Update:
As expected Electronic Arts dropped us a note that this was a fake report and there is no such thing as NFS: The Island.
Interesting how credulous people can be :)
 Newsarticle at PCGames.de (German)
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| Info: User registration error fixed |
Sunday, 17.09.2006 |
 Unfortunately there was an error in our english discussion board. When you were trying to register as a new user it says The chosen username is already taken or invalid.
This should be fixed and registration is now possible again. Please note that the NFS-Planet community system is not connected to the board's database, so you have to register extra.
Happy discussing! :)
NFS-Planet Discussion Board
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| NFS C: Official Packshots (Update) |
Thursday, 14.09.2006 |
 Electronic Arts Germany released the official packshots of Need for Speed Carbon.
I'll upload the other pictures later, but you can already see the PC-DVD packshot to your right.
Update: The picture of the PC-DVD is now available in better quality, and you can see the boxarts of the PS2, Xbox, Xbox360 and Gamecube at the bottom. Unfortunately the pictures of the PSP, Nintendo DS and Gameboy Advance are not available in higher resolution yet:
Please note that these are the boxart of the EU versions - NFSC may will be on PC-CD outside Europe.
Preorder Need for Speed Carbon at Amazon.co.uk
Preorder Need for Speed Carbon at Amazon.com
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| NFS C: Releasedate confirmed for Europe |
Tuesday, 12.09.2006 |
Electronic Arts Germany confirmed with today's release-list the release date of Need for Speed Carbon being on 2nd November 2006 for all platforms. Interestingly also for Wii and Playstation 3, the Wii console will be released in mid-November and Sony's Playstation 3 will even come not before 2007 in Europe.
Apart from that we can expect this date can be taken seriously, since the game will be released for most platforms already on 31 October in the USA.
Preorder Need for Speed Carbon at Amazon.co.uk
Preorder Need for Speed Carbon at Amazon.com
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EA published on the official website of Need for Speed Carbon a short teaser video of Emanuelle Vaugier, which shows her first in real and then in-game.