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Oh Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Need For Speed 4: High Stakes is the best out of the series yet. It has so many good qualities, i don't know where to start:
PROS:
1. Amazing looking tracks.
2. Great selection of cars.
3. Great modes: Hot Pursuit (where you can either chase or be chased by the police), Test Drive (where you can go for a 1 lap spin through the course), Single Race (single race), High Stakes, Tournament (where you can race for the money to upgrade and/or buy new cars).
4. Options to drive at night, backwards, and with weather.
5. Great secret cars (Titan, Phantom, and Police Helicopter, and McCleran F1).
6. On hot pursuit mode, you can hear when a roadblock or a spike belt is being set up, therefore giving you a better chance to avoid it.
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You should agree, Need For Speed 4: High Stakes is a great racing game.

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MY LIST OF BEST NFS (NEED FOR SPEED) GAMES:

1. Need For Speed 3: Hot Pursuit
2. Need For Speed 4: High Stakes
3. Need For Speed: Porsche Unleashed
4. Need For Speed: V-Rally 2
5. Need For Speed 2
6. Need For Speed: V-Rally
7. Need For Speed: Road Challenge
8. Need For Speed: Porsche 2000
9. Need For Speed

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Excellent Racing and Driving Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This by far one of the best driving games I have ever had the privilege to play. Its just so cool that you are able to choose wich side of the law you want to uphold. You can either have a awesome sports car or be a police officer and give tickets and arrest people that speed. AND if that is not enough you can also do a sort of Gran Turismo mode in wich you buy cars, jack them up, and race them, and when you do this you are also unlocking more cars and tracks to cruise on! Its also got the multiplayer feature so you and somebody else can chase each other or both be civilians or both be cops! Highly reccomended, I guarantee tons of fun!

Super Pursuit

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Super 3D graphics make the game fun.The music is well made.Choose cars like the Mc Laren F1,La Nina and the Mercedees CLK GTR and tons more!(Note:Unlock these cars by doing well in Carrer Mode and/or doing cool cheats).More than 15 tracks is sweet!I love Hot Pursuit,it is exactly what there would be in a real chase!(it is REAL!)There is a lady dispatcher and lots of fast policemen make me hesitate in my seat!Overall it is a super game.GET IT!

Arcade racer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 08, 1999
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking for a fun, easy to control arcade racing type game with some cool cars and a less than realistic physics package, this is a good game for you. If you want more realistic handling and car tuning, go with Gran Turismo. Real sports cars will spin if you drive them incorrectly, or if you setup the suspension incorrectly.

Very good, but still flawed...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I recently purchased this CD-ROM and having owned it's prequel -Need For Speed 3: Hot Pursuit- I expected Need For Speed: High Stakes to be considerably better. Unfortunately, all in all it's no better.

Need For Speed 3 is a great game, VISUALLY more than in any other way, and it also has a plethora of setup options and HOT PURSUIT modes of play, which is why it was such a fun game. However, it had some major flaws as well; it's biggest flaw, arguably was the driving physics: there's a slight delay in the steering response and the cars feel like their floating from side to side instead of firmly grasping the road, which made driving the cars very tedious, aggravating and nearly impossible to avoid hitting sides of the road and other cars, making the game a LOT less fun than it should have been.

In like manner, Need For Speed: High Stakes is visually, eyecandy; it also has a lot of setup options, a new CAREER mode of play, and vehicle damage (not to mention the famed HOT PURSUIT modes of play). However, I was EXTREMELY disappointed in two major flaws which SEVERELY detract from fun and entertaining gameplay: The driving -which was already severely flawed in Need For Speed 3- is even WORSE in this game, astonishingly. Why Electronic Arts didn't correct this flaw, I have no idea, but that's totally incompetent of them and unacceptable. Also, the cars' exteriors are very botched; -they look like kindergarten artwork, whereas in Need For Speed 3 they look very accurate and great.

Although, the game is still very good overall, certain flaws nonetheless severely detract from gameplay, unfortunately. The game should have been and could have been FAR better...

Totally Awesome Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is, without a doubt, the best racing game for the Playstation. Nothing comes close.There are so many different ways to play this game. You can race against the computer,race against a friend, or if you really want some fun...You can chase speeders. Or, You can be the bad guy! You also, Can earn extra tracks and cars. The hardest track to earn is called "Snowy Ridge". On this track, You get to race in the snow! What more could a race game have.So, Buy this game.... .....Hopefully they will make this game for the Playstation 2 ! Enjoy

great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game, have good graphics and you can be a cop and you can be a stealer you select whatever side of the law

NEED FOR SPEED HIGH STAKES

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

ALL I CAN SAY IS WOW....I HAVE BEEN PLAYING THIS GAME FOR LIKE 6 YEARS OR SO....I LOVE THIS GAME....MY SON LOVES IT AS MUCH, IF NOT MORE, THAN I DO....

WORTH EVERY PENNY....

Need For Speed High Stakes

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well i bet the other need for speed games are much better on playstation 2,but on the computer its pretty cool to.all you do in this one is race race and race.The good thing is that you get to pick what car u want,even a cop car!if u look on the back of the thing before u buy it,,well actully,by one point the back does look better then the game.I played this game many times and its great.Pther people say this game is bad because all u do is race and get bonos stuff,its actully the best racing game,other then nascar,i ever played.please listin to me what im tellin you is true.because once you by it your thank me.

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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: February 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

NFS:High Stakes is similar to Gran Turismo, but the graphics are more like those of Spyro. Though NFS wants a different car selection (three instead of two, more variation), the car damage feature and wider selection of games make it as good or better than GT1.

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