Need for Speed: Carbon Collector's Edition

There still are many police pursuits.

At the same time, the focus on tuning and sculpting your car remains, as introduced in Need for Speed Underground .

As you win money from races, you can visit garages and car lots to make improvements to your vehicle.

Enhancements are still unlocked gradually, but the cars have now been divided over different tiers.

There are about 40 cars to unlock.

Many of them have been featured in previous installments, but there is a new selection and this year's edition introduces powerful muscle cars such as the Ford Mustang and Dodge Charger.

Other features include the possibility to form your own crew, more detailed sculpting features, drifting races (introduced in NFS:U and replaced by drag races in NFS:MW ) and the new car classes.

The PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 versions offer online multiplayer, missing from the PS2, GC and Xbox releases.

Up to eight players can race together, in the Pursuit Tag or Pursuit Knockout modes, with a few variations.

Pursuit Tag is a race of one civilian car against cop cars.

To become the civilian car, you have to tag it and then try to fend off the cops as long as possible until you are tagged again by other players.

In Pursuit Knockout everyone starts as a civilian car, but the last one at the end of the first lap becomes a cop and needs to cause as much damage as possible to the other speeders.

Another mode allows you to drive cooperatively (up to four players) in a single race.

The city and the surroundings in the career mode have been divided into different territories, controlled by gangs.

You are either invited or challenged to race in the sections and claim them as your

Need for Speed: Carbon Collector's Edition for Xbox 360 is currently worth €53.13 loose, €23.02 complete in box, and €156.26 factory sealed. Prices are based on real sales and update regularly on Gamevaro.

Need for Speed: Carbon Collector's Edition has a steady sales history on the tracked marketplaces, meaning it trades hands regularly and isn't considered particularly rare.

Loose means cartridge or disc only, CIB (complete in box) includes the original box and manual, and sealed means factory-sealed and never opened. For Need for Speed: Carbon Collector's Edition, loose is €53.13 and CIB is €23.02 — CIB commands a premium because original boxes and manuals are fragile and often don't survive.

The PAL version of Need for Speed: Carbon Collector's Edition is currently worth €53.13 loose, versus €42.61 for NTSC-U. Regional price differences usually come down to print run size and regional collector demand.