Everything Breaks: Difference between revisions

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With the advent of fully destructible environments in modern computer games, sometimes the game world's destructibility gets taken [[Made of Plasticine|a bit too far]]. Since everything seems to collapse [[Collision Damage|as soon as anything touches it]], planning vehicle paths, especially in [[Real Time Strategy]] games, becomes crucial if one doesn't want to lose other potential benefits of the scenery, such as (following the previous example) cover for infantry.

 

** It must be noted that first levels of [[RF 1]] allowed you to carve an arbitrary way through the rock, worms-style, but in 3D. You could even operate a drilling machine. Destructibility also worked quite well in multiplayer maps, leaving no safe place for campers, at least in PC version. In contrast, Red Faction Guerilla doesn't support destructible landscape at all.

* ''[[Star Wars]]: [[The Force Unleashed]]'' introduces some new destruction technology called Digital Molecular Matter (or DMM) in which objects will break more realistically (glass shattering, wood having some bend/break to it and splintering realistically etc.)

* ''[[Company of Heroes]]'' features many destructible map items, namely walls and buildings. Planning the paths of heavier vehicles, such as tanks, which can knock walls over, is required to avoid destroying structures which could potentially serve as cover for infantry. Conversely, armoured vehicles can be used to create new paths and entry points for infantry.

** ''[[Dawn of War]] 2''. Take the above sentence. Remove 'heavier'. Or, for that matter, replace the word after 'heavier' with 'infantry'.

** Like in [[Company of Heroes]], this fact is important to Infantry units which are easily killed outside of cover. There are even tactical aids available for the sole purpose of depriving infantry of cover, although they are certainly fatal to units hiding in that cover aswell.

* Again, everything that isn't terrain can be demolished in the Soldiers: Heroes of [[WW 2]] series. In the latest version, [[Men of War]], anything can be shot up, blown up, or run over. Makes street fighting easier when you've got tanks- either blow up a wall to expose to enemy, or just drive the tank through the building until it collapses.

* This is the entire point of the ''[[Lego Adaptation Game|LEGO]] [insert movie here]'' series of games. When in doubt, break everything.

* ''[[Mercenaries]]'' allowed the player to blow up most buildings. The sequel allowed the player to blow up ANYTHING.

* ''[[Battlefield: Bad Company]]'' liked to show off your ability to reduce buildings to withered husks of their former selves.

* ''John Woo's Stranglehold'' has some of the biggest amount of property damage I've seen in a game. The game fully expects this, and gives you a report of how many millions of dollars of damage you've done in the level.

* The [[Turn-Based Strategy]] game ''Silent Storm'' featured this, along with a huge array of WWII grenades. It was actually possible to [[Unwinnable|screw yourself]] by blowing up and collapsing all the staircases to the upper level of a building containing a [[Plot Coupon]]. Moral of the story: Don't use heavy grenades indoors.

* [[Minecraft]]. Everything, from walls to dirt to solid rock can be broken. The only thing that doesn't count are fluids (like water and [[Convection, Schmonvection|lava]]) and <s>bedrock</s> [[Fan Nickname|adminium]].

* In ''[[Freedom Force]]'' and its sequel ''Freedom Force vs. the 3rd Reich'', almost every object in the game can be destroyed. This includes crates, trash cans, trees, lamp posts, dumpsters, cars, and buildings (usually every building). On most levels, the only thing that can't be destroyed is the terrain. Most objects can also be picked up and thrown by strong enough characters. Things like lamp posts, telephone poles, and small trees can be also be wielded by characters as giant clubs.

* Justified in ''[[Crush Crumble and Chomp]]'' Since you're playing a [[Kaiju|gigantic monster]], the entire city is a destructible sandbox.

* Most of the scenery in ''[[Medal of Honor]]: Allied Assault'''s tank level is destroyable.

* ''[[Battle Tanx]]''

* [[Shattered Steel]] A voxel-and-polygon based mech game, allows you to make permanent craters everywhere with explosive weaponry. It is possible, for example, to dig a hole big enough to trap most non-flying enemies.

* In [[ZAR]], Russian voxel-based shooter almost every weapon will make permanent dents, craters or trenches where it hits ground, useful for creating cover since you can't usually survive without it.

 

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