8.5/10 – The last great "handmade" NFS before the series went fully mobile-casual. Did you prefer the territory system of Own the City, or the canyon duels of the console version? Fire up your emulator and let me know in the comments!

While the home console version was a cinematic spectacle, the PSP version was a gritty, open-world survival story in your pocket. And thanks to the magic of , many of us kept this classic on our Memory Sticks long after the UMDs got scratched.

Let’s be honest: when you hear "Need for Speed Carbon," you probably think of the next-gen console version from 2006—the canyon duels, the autosculpt, and Darius’s Le Mans Quattro.

But if you owned a back in the day, you know the real gem was the handheld cousin: Need for Speed: Carbon – Own the City (CSO) .

And if you are playing via on your phone or PC? Use that CSO file. It runs like butter upscaled to 1080p.