Destructible Projectiles: Difference between revisions

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In most [[Video Games]], projectiles are intangible things whose only interaction with the outside world is that they inflict [[Collision Damage]] on the first thing they touch and then promptly cease to exist.

 

But sometimes the projectile is indeed a tangible object that can be attacked or affected by other projectiles or attacks. Can't dodge an incoming attack, for example? Try deflecting it before it hits you!

 

 

Contrast [[Shoot the Bullet]], in which this is an extraordinary ([[Moment of Awesome]]/[[Cutscene Power to the Max]]) feat instead of a normal gameplay mechanic. In simulators, the harder it is to shoot a missile, the more efficient tend to be other countermeasures. [[Painfully-Slow Projectile|Painfully Slow Projectiles]] or [[Bullet Time]] are usually the reason this is possible.

 

A [[Smart Bomb]] often (especially in [[Bullet Hell]] games) has the secondary effect of destroying all projectiles on screen, even when this is not usually possible.

 

* Many [[Shoot'Em Up]] games have oval- or oblong-shaped projectiles that the player can shoot down. Homing missiles in such games are ''usually'' destructible too.

* Most enemy projectiles in ''[[Cabal]]'' and ''[[Blood Bros.]]'' are destructible. It's easier to dodge them, though.

* The fireballs launched by ''[[Minecraft]]'' ghasts can be [[Tennis Boss|reflected]] by hitting them.

* Homing missiles in ''[[Solar Jetman]]''.

* In the second ''[[Drakengard]]'', attacks from enemy mages and archers can be blocked by striking them with an attack, although the precise timing for this can be difficult to accomplish when fending off swarms of other [[Mooks]] at the same time. Some projectiles (like the bounty hunters' knives) can even be deflected back at the thrower [[For Massive Damage]].

* In various ''[[Metroid]]'' games ([[Super Metroid]] in particular), certain projectiles can be destroyed for health or Missile refills during boss battles.

* ''[[The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction]]'' (the [[Spiritual Successor|spiritual predecessor]] to ''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]'') gave the Hulk the ability to either punch missiles back at the tanks that shot them, or to catch them and throw them back like footballs.

* The last Ganondorf fight in ''[[Ocarina of Time]]'' uses this. You have to play "tennis" with his energy balls.

* In ''[[Fallout]] 3'', held and thrown grenades can be shot to make them detonate prematurely. Of course, it's darn near impossible what with combat being so hectic and them being so small and fast. However, using [[Bullet Time|VATS]] mode allows you to select them and shoot them with far greater accuracy. There's something ''[[Video Game Cruelty Potential|special]]'' about the first time you detonate a wastelanders arm by shooting the grenade they planned to lob at you. And the following fifty.

* ''[[Terminator]] II: Judgment Day'' [[Arcade Game]]. During the sequence in the future, the enemy regularly throws bombs at you. You can shoot and detonate them before they hit you.

 

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