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** The HD version of ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' turns [[VideoGame/SonicUnleashed Egg Dragoon]] and [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Silver]] into High Speed Battles, while the 3DS version does it with the [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes Egg Emperor]]... Recent ''[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]]'' games like this trope a ''lot''.

** ''Brawl'' makes this stage hilarious for one reason: Franchise/{{Sonic|TheHedgehog}} with a Bunny Hood can actually ''outrun the stage.''

** The Air Battle in Chapter 14 has Thanatos and Phosphora duking it out for the first half or so before Phosphora takes Thanatos out. Pit can't actually take pot-shots at them, however.

* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' has a fight against the Chariot Master, each of you riding one of the unicorns.

** Yet another ''[=MGS4=]'' 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.]]

* Both ''VideoGame/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...

* One of the stages in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Melee'' (and reappearing in Brawl) is set atop not-to-scale VideoGame/{{F-Zero}} cars mid-race. Just not letting the stage kill you is hard enough!

* Green's stage in ''GunstarHeroes'' takes place while driving along a mine shaft in a strange insectoid vehicle.

* [[VideoGame/EverythingOrNothing 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''.

** All but one of the bosses in ''[[SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Secret Rings]]'' also work this way. King Arthur in ''Sonic and the Black Knight'' also does this... and [[HypocriticalHumor he calls out Sonic for running away]]?

** 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 ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', you're fighting several enemies and a boss whilst you're on a [[MinecartMadness minecart]] escaping from a Magitek 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.]]''

** ''VideoGame/{{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 [[TransformingMecha 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 [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome 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 [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome some of the best music to ever grace the Genesis, as well.]]

* The entire game of ''PursuitForce'' and its sequel, ''Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice'', involves a cop for the eponymous police agency chasing down criminals and killing or arresting them. Rather unique in the implementation, however, as the cop can leap from one vehicle to another with ease while driving as speeds of (usually) at least 150 miles per hour.

* ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'': Two boss battles (none of them the [[FinalBoss final one]], though), have battles likes these styled after those of ''[[VideoGame/SonicAdvanceTrilogy Sonic Advance 2]]''. The first is against [[AxCrazyGeneral]] [[SmugSnake Serpentine]]'s Robo-Panther, and the second is a final match against Syntax with an added laser AdvancingWallOfDoom.

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* 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.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Cloud hops on a motorcycle while his party jumps into a truck, as they attempt to escape the city of Midgar. This is the second version: Shrina security forces on motorcycles chase after the party in a mini-game, while Cloud slashes them with the Buster Sword.

* In ''[[MegaManLegends 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.

* 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.

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

* [[LaMulana La-Mulana]]: The battle against the third area's boss, [[spoiler:Ellmac]], is a high-speed battle with [[spoiler:Ellmac running after Lemeza as Lemeza rolls away from it on a mine-cart]]. Even the battle's music track is called "High-Speed Beast." There's also Bahamut (no, not [[Franchise/FinalFantasy that Bahamut]]), who you fight on a high-speed fish-powered boat, and Palenque, who is an [[UnexpectedShmupLevel Unexpected Shmup Boss]] who you fight in a corridor while dodging DeadlyWalls.
* ''RomancingSaGa3'' has a fight where three of your characters must ride atop a skull car in order to attack another skull car that has gone berserk.

* Stage 4 of ''{{Contra}} III: The Alien Wars'' sees the heroes riding hoverbikes at breakneck speeds, fighting [[BigBad Red Falcon's]] JetPack-wearing, tank-riding {{Mooks}}. Later on, a massive [[BattleshipRaid air fortress]] catches up, and the soldiers must destroy the artillery emplacements on its belly... after which the battle [[HighAltitudeBattle takes to the skies]] and [[RefugeInAudacity throws all common sense]] [[CrazyAwesome out the window]].
** ''{{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 [[TransformingMecha 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 [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome 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 [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome some of the best music to ever grace the Genesis, as well.]]

* ''ThunderForce 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.

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

* The bike levels in MusashiSamuraiLegend.

* ''{{Action 52}}'': Micro Mike.

** The first boss of ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic and Knuckles]]'' involves chasing Robotnik while dodging spiked ropes.

* Stage 4 of ''{{Contra}} III: The Alien Wars'' sees the heroes riding hoverbikes at breakneck speeds, fighting [[BigBad Red Falcon's]] JetPack-wearing, tank-riding {{Mooks}}. Later on, a massive [[BattleshipRaid air fortress]] catches up, and the soldiers must destroy the artillery emplacements on its belly... after which the battle [[HighAltitudeBattle takes to the skies]] and throws all common sense [[WindowPain out the window]].

* [[LaMulana La-Mulana]]: The battle against the third area's boss, [[spoiler:Ellmac]], is a high-speed battle with [[spoiler:Ellmac running after Lemeza as Lemeza rolls away from it on a mine-cart]]. Even the battle's music track is called "High-Speed Beast." There's also Bahamut (no, not [[FinalFantasy that Bahamut]]), who you fight on a high-speed fish-powered boat, and Palenque, who is an [[UnexpectedShmupLevel Unexpected Shmup Boss]] who you fight in a corridor while dodging DeadlyWalls.

* ''Police 911'' series, being a spinoff to VideoGame/LethalEnforcers, has all stages in this. You need to TakeCover and return fire in a quick succession in a limited time to avoid getting hit by enemy gunfire. Also, all bosses, despite being CatAndMouseBoss, runs at fast movements.

* ''Police 911'' series, being a spinoff to VideoGame/LethalEnforcers, has all stages in this. You need to TakeCover and return fire in a quick succession to avoid getting hit by enemy gunfire. Also, all bosses, despite being CatAndMouseBoss, runs at fast movements.