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In video games, a '''High Speed Battle''' typically results when the player and an enemy have jumped into vehicles and continue to duke it out, in a manner of speaking. Two possible iterations exist:
* The first version is that the player is chasing the villain, with the intent of stopping them for one reason or another.
* The second version involves the player being chased by the villain, with the intent of escaping.
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* In ''[[Mega Man Legends|Mega Man Legends 2]]'', you have to face off against the Bonnes AND Glyde who join forces to make an armoured battletrain, the Gemeinschaft, which you must destroy while shooting from atop of your own modified train.
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' ends with Solid Snake escaping the Shadow Moses facility by Jeep, while shooting down pursuing enemies (and, eventually, Liquid Snake).
** ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' features a callback to this, only {{spoiler|instead of a Jeep, Snake's piloting REX itself, and has to plow through an army of Gekkos to escape.}}
** ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'' also features such a chase involving Snake and EVA escaping an exploding base with enemy soldiers and the [[Big Bad]] in the Shagohod in hot pursuit.
** Yet another ''MGS4'' chase is a callback to this one, with {{spoiler|EVA, in her [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], racing through a city on a motorcycle, with Snake covering her from the back seat, as they try to evade and escape Liquid's troops.}}
* The final battle between Sonic and Shadow in ''[[Sonic Adventure 2]]'' involves them racing on foot along a collapsing walkway.
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** Pick any Eggman boss in ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]'' except for the Egg Dragoon, who is the only one fought as the Werehog. For the second variety, any time the Egg Interceptor makes an appearance in the PS360 version (the WiiS2 version uses a mix of the two).
** In ''[[Sonic Colors]]'', there's the fight with the Frigates Orcan and Skullian, as well as the final battle with the {{spoiler|Nega-Wisp Armor.}}
** The HD version of ''[[Sonic Generations]]'' turns [[Sonic Unleashed|Egg Dragoon]] and [[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006
* Green's stage in ''[[Gunstar Heroes]]'' takes place while driving along a mine shaft in a strange insectoid vehicle.
* The second boss in ''[[Wario Land]]: Shake It!'' is one of these.
* One of the stages in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Melee'' (and reappearing in Brawl) is set atop not-to-scale [[F-Zero]] cars mid-race. Just not letting the stage kill you is hard enough!
** ''Brawl'' makes this stage hilarious for one reason: [[Sonic]] with a Bunny Hood can actually ''outrun the stage.''
** Wario-Man (Wario's super form) can also do this on his bike.
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** ''[[Contra]]: Hard Corps'' has a lot of these. To name a few, there are stages where you ride hoverbikes on highways and the sea, said hoverbikes can also [[Transforming Mecha|turn into slightly anthropomorphic robots]] that continue to ''run'' at the same speed they were moving while hovering, and there's a fight on a train including a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|boss fight with a giant robot]] that runs ahead of the train and eventually pulls a [[Trainstopping]] move ''while it continues to fight you!'' All of this comes with [[Crowning Music of Awesome|some of the best music to ever grace the Genesis, as well.]]
** Stage 2 of ''Shattered Soldier'' does homage to both of those; the first half being a reprise of the hoverbike [[Battleship Raid]], and the second a battle alongside and [[Traintop Battle|on top]] a train, ending in a rematch with said giant robot.
* In ''[[Wild
** Moving on horseback had the peculiar but nice effect that you could never be back attacked, or wind up entering the battle with only one character. It also sped up your characters' attack speed slightly, presumably because they themselves weren't running (being on horseback and all), whilst the enemies were.
*** It also made the spellcasting animation glitch a
* ''Thunder Force II'''s Stage 2-2 has you fly down a highway (with poles that you can crash into if you fly too low), and Stage 4-2 makes you speed through tight corridors.
** ''Thunder Force III'''s [[That One Level|Gorgon]] and [[That One Level|Haides]] stages have, roughly halfway through each stage, a high-speed segment. In both cases, it's a chance to grab a particularly rare item (such as a shield or a [[
** ''Thunder Force IV'''s stage 1 boss is fought over a lake at high speed.
* Call of Duty 4 ends with you and your companions escaping a missile launch facility in trucks after destroying two missiles in mid-air, while being chased by an army, including an attack chopper.
** Most if not all of the [[Call of Duty]] games feature at least one vehicle chase sequence. [[Modern Warfare]] 2 just might take the cake, though, with a high-speed snowmobile chase, a unarmed sprint through Rio, a truck chase in an airplane graveyard, ''and'' an insane motorboat chase.
* A mission in [[Dark Forces Saga|Jedi Academy]] consists of you fighting off (or fleeing from, your choice) mercenaries on speeders.
* [[Uncharted]] 2: Among Thieves has an; an extended gunfight taking place in the backs of a dozen speeding
* Riding Duels (Turbo Duels in the dub) in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'' are this as applied to Duel Monsters. Or to put it another way... [[Memetic Mutation|CARD GAMES]] [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|ON MOTORCYCLES]]!
* Both ''[[Just Cause (video game)|Just Cause]]'' games feature these as a regular occurrence, giving the player the ability to climb about on vehicles and leap on to other ones. And that's to say nothing of the havoc you can wreak with your grappling hook...
* The bike levels in [[Musashi: Samurai Legend]].
* [[James Bond 007 Everything Or Nothing]]: The Pontchartrain Bridge. To wit: You've just destroyed Yayakov's nanobot facility out in the bayou. You notice Jaws hop into a nanobot-filled tanker truck and head out on the freeway (the Bridge) in a last-ditch attempt to carry out Diavolo's plans. What do you do? You hop onto your Q-Bike and give chase, avoiding civilian cars and henchmen in cars and on bikes. All of this in excess of ''200 mph''.
* Most of the ''[[Gradius]]'' games contain a "high speed" stage where the screen scrolls twice as fast as normal.
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