Need for Speed: High Stakes

A high octane racer in which players race against the competition, as well as the police, in a high stakes game where players put their car on the line to win it all and come out on top.

Overview

Need for Speed: High Stakes (also known as Need for Speed Road Challenge in Europe) is the sixth installment of the Need for Speed series, and was published by Electronic Arts in 1999. It features a large amount of high performance vehicles, exotic cars and law enforcement cruisers in North American and European locations. High Stakes added a new tournament mode titled High Stakes, as well as two new pursuit modes, Getaway and Time Trap.

The game also features a simple damage system - in High Stakes mode, players can spend their career earnings in order to fix any damage to their car after races.

While graphically similar to the previous game in the series, Hot Pursuit, High Stakes had a number of small improvements including the addition of driver models to the cars.

Cars

Class AAA

Class AA

Class A

Class B

  • BMW Z3
  • Mercedes SLK 230

Tracks

High Stakes features 19 tracks, 10 new, and 9 returning from the previous game in the series.

  • Aquatic
  • Atlantica
  • Celtic Ruins *
  • Country Woods
  • Dolphin Cove *
  • Durham Road *
  • Empire City
  • Home Town
  • Kindiak Park *
  • Landstrasse *
  • Lost Canyons
  • Raceway *
  • Raceway 2*
  • Raceway 3 *
  • Redrock Ridge
  • Rocky Pass
  • Route Adonf *
  • Snowy Ridge*
  • Summit

* new tracks

PC Requirements

Windows 95/98/Me/XP (Home Edition);

Pentium 200 (Min.);

4x CD-ROM drive (Min.);

32MB RAM (Min.);

2MB DirectX 6.1 compatible graphics card (Min.);

DirectX 6.1 compatible sound card;

100Mb free hard drive space.