Need for Speed: Carbon Collector's Edition

Four exclusive cars including a Koenigsegg CCX, bonus drift courses through the city, and a DVD packed with behind-the-scenes content. The Need for Speed: Carbon Collector's Edition for PC was EA at its mid-2000s peak, stuffing a racing game box with enough extras to justify a victory lap.

This edition adds the 2006 Chevrolet Camaro Concept, 2007 Jaguar XK, 2006 Koenigsegg CCX, and 1992 Nissan 240SX to your garage. You also get ten pre-tuned versions of existing cars, six new races, three challenge series including city drift courses, ten new vinyl kits, and a bonus DVD featuring behind-the-scenes content about the cars, environments, characters, and actors, plus the Need for Speed AV Wars Remix Project with six audiovisual remixes. That's a serious haul of playable content on top of the documentary material.

NFS Carbon dropped during the franchise's underground street racing era, when the series was all neon, canyon duels, and crew-based territory wars. The Collector's Edition cars are a perfect snapshot of mid-2000s automotive culture, mixing JDM legends with European exotics and American muscle concepts. The bonus DVD captures a period when EA was investing real Hollywood production value into its racing games, with motion-captured actors and cinematic storylines. For Need for Speed collectors and racing game enthusiasts, the Carbon CE is a satisfying piece from the franchise's most stylistically bold chapter.