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This game does not play on my PS3

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game the other week and found it would not play on my PS3. I bought it because I used to play it at my friends house back in the day. Before I ordered it, I looked it up on Sony's website and they stated the game had no problems. Anyway, if anyone out there is playing this on a PS3 comment back

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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....

This Game Stinks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: December 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ha! You thought this was going to be a positive review didn't you? Ha! Ha! And double ha!
I first got Need for Speed: High Stakes when I was six months old, and hated it already. So I ate the CD and it tasted bad.

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!

A Great Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Need For Speed is amazing!Cool Tracks,Cool effects,and cool cars of course!Need for Speed is a fun game for anyone!If you try it you will love it.Well,I won't tell you what you are going to see in the game,because it's a surprise!But there is also tournments,Races,and you can try to unlock tracks,cars,and more!If you complete some tournments!The rest a surprise!I hope you like it too,Like me!

I still feel the Need For Speed

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: August 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Need For Speed: High Stakes is the only game from the Need For Speed series that I have played, so I cannot compare this particular game to the others in the series. What I can say is that NFS: High Stakes is a great little game even now, four years later. The graphics look a little clunky compared to today's technology, yet there is still enough detail to the cars and race track surroundings to keep me happy. Despite the fact that I obviously am not very good at keeping my car on the track, I think the controls are pretty good. The only annoying thing is that pushing the joystick up honks the horn, and I end up hitting the up arrow to some degree every time I move from left to right and vice versa. One feature I really like is the ability to look behind the car during the race, although this usually sends me right into a wall or tree; any time I actually manage to pass another car, I almost have to look back and watch it eat my dust. The game is truly blessed with many camera angles. After each race, the game automatically shows you an instant replay of the entire race (unless you choose to skip it), shifting between ten different cameras. This means I can watch and see just how horrendous all of my crashes were.

In many ways, the best part of the game is not the actual racing. The first thing you have to do is choose a car, and there are at least nineteen cool little speed demons at your beck and call (and even more later on if and when you have enough cash to move up in the world). If you can't decide which car you want, you can take a trip to the car showroom and hear all sorts of details about the specifications and features of each model available. Serious players can build, update, and customize any car to make it his/her pride and joy, yet really serious players have the high stakes option of putting their money where their mouths are (i.e., racing for pink slips) - you lose the race, you lose your car.

The tracks are really quite diverse and require different driving styles; when you have to deal with a number of hairpin turns, you'd better be a better driver than I am. Different environments help make each race unique, as you might have to battle bad weather, additional passenger traffic, and the darkness of night. Of course, you don't have to just go out there and race cold turkey; you can take all the time you want running test laps and getting a feel for each track. You also have the option of racing in single events or competing in tournaments.

My favorite aspect of this game, though, is the Hot Pursuit option. Here, you can choose either to run from the law or climb inside a police car (which can vary depending on the country in which you are driving) and play Smokey to some other guy's Bandit. You even get to bang against and all but wreck fleeing speeders in your quest to enforce the law. Whichever side of the law you choose to play, you are privy to all sorts of great police radio chatter. Speeders will have to evade not one cop alone but a whole group of them, and these cops coordinate their pursuit tactics. Roadblocks, spike strips, and a bevy of cruisers trying to block you in can all make for quite an exciting challenge.

Need For Speed: High Stakes is getting a little long in the tooth now, as is the original Playstation console, but the game is still a lot of fun to play when you just want to goof around for a little while. Serious gamers will unlock cars and tracks that more casual players may never see for themselves, but any novice can pop in the CD and entertain himself/herself with a world of fun features.

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.

Excellant!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty cool, pulling over speeders and running away from the cops. It is definatly worth the price!

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!

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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