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Need for Speed: High Stakes

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm not sure if it was my computer, but the graphics in this simualtion were terrible. I wasted my money. There is no comparison between this one and "Midtown Madness".

Worst graphics I have seen in 5 years... Terrible game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: February 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I don't mind if the graphics aren't completely state of the art, but this was ridiculous. Not only were the graphics terrible, but the rendering engine they used was pathetically slow and the effects were horrible. I ran this game on a P3-733Mhz with a DDR GeFORCE256 video card and could not enjoy the game at any decent resolution because of the huge frame hits you would receive depending upon where in the track you were. Terrible. Even at high resolutions the cars and tracks looked pixellated and cartoonish. I-76, which is many years older than this game has graphics which kill NS4. I am unbelievably dissapointed.

Need For Speed: High Stakes

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Do not know anything about the game....... Could not get it loaded on any computer. Intel II450 32 mg video to a AMD 600... E/A WAS NOT MUCH HELP EITHER.....

This game stinks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: July 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game has horrible graphics and very choppy Don't buy it

Impressive driving simulation game.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 27, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the most realistic driving simulation games available in the market. The reason is that there is actual damage effects if you drive your exotic cars recklessly.

One of the most impressive damage effects in this game is the damage effect of your car's tubeless tires. Tires could blow off and only the rims are left. The damage will in fact affect your sharp turns and the stability of your car. They also spark as a result of friction between the metal rims and hard asphalt.

Headlights and brakelights will be damaged as soon as your car bumps into something. The damage of your car's headlights will impair your driving at night. As a consequence, you can hardly drive your car at its top speed.

Other damage effects include the damage of your car's rooftop when your car turn over, tire marks on the road, and fire comes out from the gas tank. Furthermore, graphics and sound effects of this game are relatively comparable to its sequels.

The drawback of this game is that you cannot buy spare parts and fix the damages that you have caused to your car. You cannot pop the hood open and re-tune the engine after the race. You cannot modify your car. There is just so much things that you cannot do to your car.

In conclusion, without those impressive damage effects, this is just another typical driving simulation game. It is pretty boring and it just can't keep me playing for months.

Definitely Not The Best I've Played...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

From the beginning, this game starts off difficult. The cars in this game have particularly weird handling, the feeling just isn't right, especially if you play the previous Need For Speed games, on either computer or game consoles. I liked the graphic detail of the game. It was smooth and everything just flowed, no matter the high settings I set game options to have. Another feature about this game that I like was the selection of cars to race. However, I really would have liked to see some commuter cars that we normally see out there, to have cars that games like Grand Turismo has. I believe that would be nice. And also to have the ability to supped up the cars too. Those are what the things that have been missing in the Need For Speed series that I would definitely like to see in the future.

Great but not so great

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is a fun game, only if you have a good computer with all of the requirements only a lot higher. When I play it, the graphics are terible even when I set them to the highest setting, and the races skip on you. This could be because of my computer, but I have a 98 hewlett packard. Besides the graphics and stuff, the game is awsome. You can download cars and tracks, and you can also win tracks and cars by winning the races against the computer. It keeps the competition going. There is also hot persuit where you can be the police or be run from them. If you are looking for a hot racing game I would recomend Need for Speed 3 or 4. I would not get Need for Speed High Stakes (4), unless you meat, or pass all of the requirements.

if it only worked right...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well, let's start off with the good stuff: 1.great graphics 2.a lot of cars 3. downloadable cars from needforspeed.com 4.good gameplay and interface and now the bad: 1. you have to earn cars and tracks 2. the games system requirements are deceptive. our computer is almost double what it should be, but the game will only let us play one or two races before it crashes.

Pretty good

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you have a 3dfx card, if you have a more advanced card like TNT2 or Geforce, just don't update your drivers and you should be alright. You don't get all the graphic benefits but it goes pretty fast in 32 bit mode at 1024 x 768. Nice selection of cars and cocpits too. Music very good. Engine noise could have been better, too synth, but better than most racing games. I haven't driven in a while but I know what it's like to go above the speed limit on a winding road. and this game is decent at simulating it(especicially if I play in a pitch dark room)

Falling Short From The Cops

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Sometimes when a sequel is made for a video game, it can often be a mistake for them to follow the success that the original version has hatched within the gamers. With Need For Speed, it often made itself into a huge dynamic franchise within the video game industry. But sometimes, it never seems to go within that trial. It just makes you want to go all the way back to the previous video game because you're so use to it.

The Need For Speed sequel: High Stakes, consists of several hip cars you can definitely race across seven tracks to start with, and several fast speed automobiles, including the Chevrolet Camaro, and the legendary corvette. Otherwise, the game falls a little bit short within the tracks. Although the seven opening tracks are nice, the other hidden tracks were from the previous Need For Speed 3: Hot Pursuit, making it seem to familiar to grounds that were already made a little while ago.

Although this game falls a little bit short from the sequel, it is a nice welcome to new computer gamers. But, if you've played the previous games, I suggest you pass this one up, and get the Need For Speed 3: Hot Pursuit, or the newer Hot Pursuit 2.

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