History Main / HighSpeedBattle

Not entirely restricted to action games, as many [=RPGs=] will have either sequences or mini-games based around a High Speed Battle. Also frequently seen in movies. AdvancingBossOfDoom and CatAndMouseBattle are slower-paced variations. Also, many of the examples simply involve characters [[SuperSpeed who can run really, really, really fast]].

Not entirely restricted to action games, as many [=RPGs=] will have either sequences or mini-games based around a High Speed Battle. Also frequently seen in movies.

** This game also has a scene where you leap off of a building to [[CrowningMomentofAwesome avoid an incoming jet that's about to smash into the rooftop]] and onto a scaffolding, which plummets to the ground at terminal velocity. Kill the enemies before you hit bottom (so Aya can use the brake), or die indeed.
* In ''FinalFantasyVI'', you're fighting several enemies and a boss whilst you're on a [[MinecartMadness minecart]] escaping from a Magitech factory. Another is the fight against [[AfterlifeExpress phantom train]], where your characters are ''fighting a train's locomotive while running away from it, on the railroad tracks''. Oh, and if that wasn't cool enough, Sabin can [[SuplexFinisher suplex it]]. ''[[CrowningMomentofAwesome While it's trying to run him down.]]''

** Excluding the final boss (which is also the easiest boss in the game for exactly that reason), ''all'' of ''[[SonicAdvanceTrilogy Sonic Advance 2's]]'' bosses are organized like this.

* In ''FinalFantasyVI'' you're fighting several enemies and a boss whilst you're on a [[MinecartMadness minecart]] escaping from a Magitech factory. Another is the fight against [[AfterlifeExpress phantom train]], where your characters are ''fighting a train's locomotive while running away from it, on the railroad tracks''. Oh, and if that wasn't cool enough, Sabin can [[SuplexFinisher suplex it]]. ''[[CrowningMomentofAwesome While it's trying to run him down.]]''

** The first boss of ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic and Knuckles]]'' features chasing Robotnik while dodging spiked ropes.
** Excluding the final boss, which is also the easiest boss in the game for exactly that reason, ''all'' of ''[[SonicAdvanceTrilogy Sonic Advance 2's]]'' bosses are organized like this.

** All but one of the bosses in ''{{Sonic and the Secret Rings}}'' also work this way.

** In ''SonicColors'', there's the fight with the Frigates Orcan and Skullian, as well as the final battle with the [[spoiler: Nega-Wisp Armor.]]

** ''Brawl'' makes this stage hilarious for one reason: {{Sonic}} with a Bunny Hood can actually ''Out run the stage.''

** The Subspace Emissary in ''Brawl'' features a high speed battle atop Captain Falcon's Falcon Flyer while Meta Ridley is flying behind you trying to take you down.

* This is the climactic end to ''Revenge of Meta-Knight'', one of the games on {{Kirby}} Super Star. You hop onto your buddy Wheelie and race to the end of the ship you've been spending the whole game destroying, trying to get off before it crashes into the ocean, whilst Meta-Knight, who you [[LoadBearingBoss just defeated]], turns into...err...[[OneWingedAngel Meta-Bat]] and flies after you, shooting stuff at you to try and kill you. Oh yeah, and it's [[TimedMission timed]] too.

* In WildArms3 They ramped up the movement via Horseback with very little difference to the regular game play, and Sand craft battles that had a few difference in how to attack and such but still the same basic game play
** Moving on horseback had the peculiar but nice effect that you could never be back attacked, or 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 little - the last few frames loop. Still, the first time you realize that, yes, you can enter battle on horseback, it's ''awesome''.

* {{Uncharted}} 2: Among Thieves has a High Speed Battle taken BeyondTheImpossible; an extended gunfight taking place in the backs of a dozen speeding trucks - each one [[EveryCarIsAPinto exploding]] as Nate jumps to the next!

* [[JamesBond007EverythingOrNothing 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.
* A variation: in SuperSmashBrosMelee and SuperSmashBrosBrawl, one of the stages (Big Blue) takes place atop a series of [[CaptainFalcon futuristic racecars]].

* The eighth ''Touhou'' game, Imperishable Night, has a stage in which the scrolling background speeds up immediately following the miniboss fight, causing a rather unsettling change of tempo. If you can ignore the background (which at this point is glowing a frenzied red), all the danmaku is moving at its normal speed, while the background just gives it a feel of moving much faster. It works.

** The first boss of ''{{Sonic and Knuckles}}'' features chasing Robotnik while dodging spiked ropes.

** The Subspace Emissary in ''Brawl'' features a high speed battle atop Captain Falcon's Blue Falcon while Meta Ridley is flying behind you trying to take you down.

* Both ''JustCause'' 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 second boss in ''WarioLand: Shake It!'' is one of these.

** Yet another ''MetalGearSolid 4'' chase is a callback to this one, with [[spoiler:EVA, in her CrowningMomentOfAwesome, 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.]]

* ''MetalGear Solid'' ends with Solid Snake escaping the Shadow Moses facility by Jeep, while shooting down pursuing enemies (and, eventually, Liquid Snake).
** ''MetalGearSolid 4'' 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.]]
** ''MetalGearSolid 3'' also features such a chase involving Snake and EVA escaping an exploding base with enemy soldiers and the BigBad in the Shagohod in hot pursuit.

* The second boss in ''Wario Land: Shake It!'' is one of these.

* In ''FinalFantasyVI'' you're fighting several enemies and a boss whilst you're on a [[MinecartMadness minecart]] escaping from a Magitech factory. Another is the fight against [[SoulTrain phantom train]], where your characters are ''fighting a train's locomotive while running away from it, on the railroad tracks''. Oh, and if that wasn't cool enough, Sabin can [[SuplexFinisher suplex it]]. ''[[CrowningMomentofAwesome While it's trying to run him down.]]''

** ''Brawl'' makes this stage hilarious for one reason: {{Sonic}} with a Bunny Hood can actually ''keep pace with the stage.''

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** ''All'' of ''[[SonicAdvanceTrilogy Sonic Advance 2's]]'' bosses are organized like this.
*** Except the final boss, which is also the easiest boss in the game for exactly that reason.

** Pick any Eggman boss in ''SonicUnleashed'' 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).

[[JamesBond007EverythingOrNothing 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.

* In ''FinalFantasyVI'' you're fighting several enemies and a boss whilst you're on a [[MinecartMadness minecart]] escaping from a Magitech factory. Another is the fight against [[SoulTrain phantom train]], where your characters are ''fighting a train's locomotive while running away from it, on the railroad tracks''. Oh, and if that wasn't cool enough, Sabin can [[SuplexFinisher suplex it]]. ''While it's trying to run him down.''

* A rather strange variation appears in FinalFantasyVI: attempting to stop the Phantom Train, Sabin and Cyan (and possibly Shadow) leap ''onto the tracks'' and ''run ahead of the train'' the entire battle. Also strange in the fact that the villain ''is'' the vehicle.
** Well, let's be fair, if the player knows what they're doing then [[ReviveKillsZombie they're not going to be running for very long]].
** The fight becomes one of Sabin's [[CrowningMomentofAwesome crowning moments]] if you suplex it. Go ahead, try it.

* In ''FinalFantasyVI'' you're fighting several enemies and a boss whilst you're on a [[MinecartMadness minecart]] escaping from a Magitech factory. Another is the fight against [[SoulTrain phantom train]], where your characters are ''fighting a train's locomotive while running away from it, on the railroad tracks''.

** This game also has a scene where you leap off of a building to [[CrowingMomentofAwesome avoid an incoming jet that's about to smash into the rooftop]] and onto a scaffolding, which plummets to the ground at terminal velocity. Kill the enemies before you hit bottom (so Aya can use the brake), or die indeed.

* ParasiteEve has a boss battle in which you're on a speeding horse-and-carraige, with the boss floating above you shooting laser beams down onto you. Said carriage is very small, and very difficult to dodge. Although the actual speed of the carriage doesn't look that fast, just wait until the FMV after the boss battle where it shows you how fast you were ''really'' going.