User:D4rkNFS/Sandbox

A demo version of 2006's Need for Speed: Carbon was featured in the Official PlayStation 2 Magazine Demo 60. The demo was built on July 1, 2006, three months before the final build. It is built on the remains of a build from earlier in development, from Late March, 2006.

Differences

General

• The game's logo was different.

User Interface

• The demo includes a mix of older (cyan-like) and newer (final-like) versions of menus, developers were in process of updating menus to the newer closer-to-final style.
• The font was bolder.
• The HUD had subtle differences.
• The Mini Map texture had slight differences.
• The loading screens were completely different and the loading screen tips are absent.
• The title screen was completely different. It had the game's logo against a static black background, unlike in the final version, which included an animated background.
• The world map was different

Cutscenes

• The introduction sequence is slightly longer and slightly different.
• Most camera angles were different.

Game world

• San Juan was slightly different.
• San Juan originally had five pursuit breakers, while in the final game, there's only one.
• There is no road block at the end of the Lookout point, demo-specific change.
• Canyon Cliff texture is different.
• To reduce the size of the demo, Palmont, Canyons and its other sections were cut from the map, keeping Lookout point, San Juan and Drift course.
• The barriers were reused from Most Wanted (2005) as a placeholder.
• All safehouses were slightly different except the Main Menu one which was entirely different place.

Gallery

User Interface

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  Title screen.

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  Loading screen.

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  Race countdown.

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  Pause menu.

Game world

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  Cut pursuit breaker in San Juan.

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  Ditto.

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  Ditto.

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  Ditto.

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  Canyon Cliff