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Need for Speed: High Stakes

Need For Speed: Conduite en Etat de Liberté ne surprend pas vraiment. Comme les précédents, c'est un excellent jeu, à la qualité et aux graphismes irréprochables... Déconseillé aux inconditionnels de réalisme, mais fortement conseillé à tous les amateurs de courses style "arcade".

After that, you may be wondering if the game is worth it. While Need for Speed: High Stakes could do with some tuning, it usually succeeds at firing on all cylinders. The three times the game froze were over a playing period of close to eighty hours, so they weren't frequent enough to stop my enjoyment of all the things that are good about this game. Enhanced career and "Hot Pursuit" modes, "High Stakes" challenges, damage modelling, and a host of new tracks and cars more than make up for it. If you like your cars fast and exotic, you can't get a better rush. Once again, Electronic Arts has hit the mark and upped the ante for all other arcade racers on the PC.

If you're a gamer who has a console, maybe the one made by Sony that starts with a P, you've might of rented or even purchased the version that was released to the console market about three months ago. EA usually puts in some new features in the PC version. This is also why they aren't released simultaneously. About the only new features included in the PC version over the PSX version is the new modes of pursuit and much better graphics (playing in 800x600 mode compared to 320x200, there is just no comparison!). It's not really worth the money to purchase the PC version of NFS:HS if you already own the PSX as there just isn't enough new features worthy to distinguish the two.

Als eindconcluse durf ik gerust te zeggen dat geen enkele gamer met een liefde voor racgames teleurgesteld zal zijn na het spelen van NFS Road Challenge. Liefhebbers van exotische sportauto's zouden het spel feitelijk al moeten gekocht hebben want de volledige uitleg bij alle wagens, de vele foto's en de prestatietabellen zijn een must voor elke autofreak.

Need for Speed High Stakes zal de fans ondanks enkele minpunten zeker bekoren. Vooral de Career mode en de mogelijkheid je wagen te verliezen, maken de razendsnelle serie nog uitdagender dan hij al was.

In essence, Need for Speed: High Stakes is Need for Speed III with car damage, a new career mode, new cars, and new tracks. It plays like its predecessor but just has so many more extras. If you already own Need for Speed III, you have to decide whether those new features are worth the asking price. But if you don't have Need for Speed III, then this will be a rare treat among PC racing games. You'll enjoy the graphics, the fast gameplay, and the plethora of cars and tracks at your disposal.

Leute, macht mich nicht arbeitslos. Was soll der Kritiker noch kritisieren, wenn seine Meckerliste vom letzten Teil komplett abgearbeitet wurde? Der clevere Karrieremodus ist ein Wundermittel gegen Selbstzweck-Langeweile und drückt aufs Motivations-Gaspedal. Endlich gibt’s auch sichtbare Schäden mit dezenten Auswirkungen aufs Fahrverhalten. All diese Verbesserungen ruhen auf der soliden Modellplattform, die seit mehreren Need-for-Speed-Generationen für Spaß sorgt. Das Spielgefühl schnurrt zufrieden zwischen Action und Simulation dahin.

Перечитал я еще раз свой обзор, и подумал — что же это я вам такое насоветовал? Если вы фанат NFS3 — вам будет интересно в NFS4 играть, а если нет — тем более, узнаете, что из себя сериал представляет. Получается, что разработчики, слегка доработав хорошую игру, получили идеал, который всем понравится? Или нет?..

It's good to know that whenever we feel the need, EA is right there to provide the speed.

Pod względem liczby torów i samochodów, być może znajdziemy lepsze wyścigi, ale NFS High Stakes ustala nowy standard. Ze względu na łatwe sterowanie, przepiękną grafikę i wciągającej zabawę, której nie znajdziemy gdzie indziej, w tej chwili są to najlepsze wyścigi na PeCeta.

Need for Speed: High Stakes is everything that NFS 3 should have been. The damage model and career play mode are great additions to an already great series of titles. They're fun and they give the player more of a feeling of involvment in the game, instead of just popping in for a quick lap or two. There are minor irritants in the game, such as not being able to go outside the course (not the focus of the game, so you probably won't ever be able to), and having to have one CD per multiplayer opponent. However, none of this stuff detracts from the fact that High Stakes is a great game, and as I said, a must-buy for anyone who's a fan of racing titles, or even just of gaming in general.

Il y a des gens qui n’ont pas la toute dernière carte graphique à 700 euros. Il y a des gens qui n’achètent pas la toute dernière bombe sortie en magasin. C’est d’ailleurs pour cela qu’existent les jeux en gamme budget...

Need for Speed: High Stakes isn't a bad game. It's the Ford Taurus of software, providing reliable, honest workmanship with a nice interior and some good standard options -- it's just that some people will be looking for a Ferrari, or at least a rocket-strapped VW Bug to bring up the pulse a bit. The outside shell has been honed to perfection by EA, but it feels as if they forgot about adding a fuel-injected engine under the hood. It looks like a racer, but all too often it ends up driving like a sedan.