Need For Speed: High Stakes for Windows

Pros: Beautiful graphics, decent physical realism, many challenges, online racing against a community of experienced racers.
Cons: No longer shipping, some problems with online and TCP/IP play, some limits to the realism.

I actually joined to write this review, because I have seen no mention at all about the online aspects of this game, and it needs to be said the EA, besides programming a truly awesome game, has servers devoted to this game 24/7, although with occasional...

Pros: Exellent Racing Action
Cons: TCP/IP not too good.

You've probably seen the shots and the features for NFS:High Stakes (NFS:HS) at http://www.needforspeed.com, and I've decided to do sort of a "truth test" of what the web page says, and what I experienced when playing NFS:HS. Below is a listing...

Pros: Great Graphics, Many game Modes
Cons: Graphics can be choppy on slower computer

Ever wanted to run away from that cop flashing his lights at you? How about driving as fast as you can down the road? With NFS High Stakes, you can do all this and more.

NFS: HS offers several different game modes. Hot Pursuit, where one...

Pros: Great combination of cars, intoxicating driving, superb sound, Damage!
Cons: They shoulda made collision/impacts on this game a lot more convincing.

As far as car racing games this is the best title you can get as far as driving exotics for a cheap price goes. Heck a Ferrari 360 Modena cost $140,000 leave alone the rest! And if you can "Drive" the same cars for $20 why not go for it?
When Test...

Pros: Fantastic & realistic graphics, sound, and physics
Cons: constant patches by Electronic Arts

Let me start off by stating I own the original Need For Speed, Need For Speed 2SE, Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit, and now Need For Speed: High Stakes. Henceforth, I'll refer to this game as NFSHS.

This is by far the best in the series....

Pros: Fun Racing Action
Cons: Doesn't keep interest long

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NFS: High Stakes had many other features that will keep you playing for a long time. Career play was probably my favorite. Starting at the amateur circuit with a "Class B" car you work your way up into the...

Pros: Great Graphics and Fast Cars!
Cons: None

I have to say, I was really impressed with EA’s Need For Speed High Stakes.
So far, I had this game since the summer and I have been hooked on it since. Every race is never the same so it always keeps things interesting.

In NFS: High...

Pros: Everything
Cons: needs a decent card for graphics

I purchased this awesome game after owning the first three. I bought the first one after playing the game on a friends playstation, and ever since then I've been hooked,
I belive that this is the best racing game there is out there right now. It has...

Pros: The box, the graphics, the cars.
Cons: Non - responsive tech support, display setting murderer

If there's a sports car game that is fun, good looking, fun, and more fun this is it. I purchased this game after playing Need For Speed three to death on my PII 233 system. When I bought this game I had upgraded to my current pIII 500 with 128 megs of...

Pros: Graphics, Graphics, Graphics!!!!!
Cons: Menu & Game Music

Need For Speed: High Stakes was the first game from the NFS series that I bought. One word can describe how I felt when I first played it: Wow! The graphics are simply amazing. You begin with nine different tracks, and after progressing through career...

Pros: fun, graphics, realism, ferraris, lamborginis, porsches, O MY!
Cons: Addiction, and a few small bugs that probably are worked out.

Being a computer Game addict, I find myself constantly looking for a new game to break monotony. While I rarely can afford to buy games, I make up for this by downloading playable demos off the internet. I have got a few good ones and a few bad...

Pros: Everything
Cons: Nothing

This is a very sweet game. I love it. I got it on my computer wiht my video card and this game rules. The cars and nice and fast, the graphics rule, and everything is awesome. It's the best car game I have ever played. I love playing hot pursuit and try...

Pros: Fast action, great cars, great graphics and high replay value
Cons: can be hard

A while ago I found this game on one of PCXL's demo discs. Even though it was just the demo I played it constantly, I had to buy the full game. When I finally bought it I was definitly impressed and I played it for months! The graphics are the best...

Pros: Damage modeling, graphics, force feedback
Cons: Difficult

At least once year there is a new NFS sequel and it's hard to believe each one gets better than the last.
In the case of High Stakes, EA has finally decided to add damage modeling to the game. I've been literally praying for this since the...

Pros: fast, good graphics and sound, fun
Cons: car tweaking only used in a few play modes of the game.

I've never really been into racing games, and I was kinda unimpressed when I saw that "Need for Speed: High Stakes" came bundled with my new SoundBlaster Live! Platinum sound card. But after I installed it and started playing it one day, I...