- Estimated achievement difficulty: 6/10
- Offline: 22 [355]
- Online: 27 [635]
- Approximate amount of time to 990 40+ hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1 playthrough
- Number of missable achievements: All single player achievement opportunities can be triggered.
- Do cheat codes disable achievement: No Cheats
- Does difficulty affect achievements: No
- Glitched achievements: None
- Unobtainable achievements: 1, Urban Battle 10
- Extra equipment needed: No
Need for Speed: Carbon is a very straightforward racing game. The controls are very simple and if you can do one race, you can do all of them without difficulty, although it can take some time to complete everything. The full 1000 cannot be obtained in this game, as the "Urban Battle" achievement is currently glitched and cannot be obtained. The good news however, is that it's only worth 10. The "Moderator Challenge" is also an achievement that will be difficult to obtain, as it is a viral achievement you must obtain from beating a Moderator at EA. The "Career Mogul" achievement can be boosted using DLC. You can make the decision if a few bucks are worth 10 to you.
Step 1: Single Player
Completing single player will net you about 250-300, in about 12-15 hours. Just go through the game, completing races. It's very straightforward.
Step 2: Online
Your goal here is to play 100 online races, and reach level 50 online. These are a little hard and time consuming. The average player, after 100 races will end up at only level 15. It can be sped up with boosting, but it's still a pain, and can easily upwards of 10 hours. Remember to win 6 games in a row, and play multiple gametypes to get the "infection" achievements. The EA moderator achievement also counts as an online achievement, but at this point, it is close to impossible.
Step 3: Reward Cards + Clean-up
This part is the hardest part of the entire game. Getting all the reward cards takes serious dedication and skill, and most players will skip this step entirely. You can also clean up other single player achievements like "Need for Speed" and "Drift King". The "Reward Card Hustler" achievement alone will take you at least another 10 hours, after completing the game.
Conclusion:
Need for Speed: Carbon is a time-consuming racing game, that will take a lot of grinding on the players part. Although the entire 1000 cannot be earned, earning 990 isn't as bad as some other older EA game. Keep playing, and earn as much gamerscore in the game as you can.
[XBA would like to thank Maka for this Roadmap]