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[[Game Breaker|Game Breakers]] in action games.

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* In ''[[Dynasty Warriors: Gundam]]'', [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Wing Zero]]'s beam attacks can pierce enemies without the Piercing Shot skill. Its [[Limit Break|SP attacks]], once fully developed, are as follows: first level is firing the [[Wave Motion Gun|Twin Buster Rifle]] at full power directly ahead, level 2 has Zero hovering in mid air and firing the rifle down, and finally it splits the rifle in half and spins like a top, firing beam in either direction. If you use the SP attack in tandem with another named character, Zero will do another spin attack, angling side to side to hit enemies above or below. Coupled with the simple enemy AI, and the SP attacks being the easiest to aim, and it's likely that whatever survived that onslaught is just about dead.

*** In the second game, the [[Mobile Fighter G Gundam|God Gundam]]'s Overdrive skill causes it to split into three versions of itself ''if'' you use it when the SP gauge is completely full. Combine this with its God Slash Typhoon, which is the strongest Melee attack in the game, and you can render your opponent dead or very close to it in two moves. Some players call it "the blender."

*** One strategy for both the second and third games is play with just one character over and over. Since you'll play the same stages with the same enemies, you can level up the other Gundams and MS before using them with the other characters. This makes their stages much easier.

* KOEI's ''[[Warriors Orochi]] 2'' lets you use Orochi -- the [[Big Bad]] of the first game, and you needed to unlock everyone else in the game before you got him -- as a starting character. He's ''still'' as powerful as his playable equivalent in the first game. There may be other questionable starting character choices (such as [[Miyamoto Musashi|Miyamoto]] ''[[Miyamoto Musashi|freakin]]'' [[Miyamoto Musashi|Musashi]]), and as a NPC Sun Wukong's moveset priority is annoying, but he stands out rather well as a playable character.

** Sun Wukong + the 'Almighty' weapon ability makes any stage a breeze. Even on Chaos difficulty. (For that matter the 'Almighty' weapon ability is a win button for anyone on the roster, but Sun Wukong's movement speed make it even more of a win button).

** Huang Zhong in second game. His arrow spread C1 normally carries no element. But with R1, it does. It also self sustains the Musou Consumption with full absorb and dealt damage so massive that it can one shot anything in one shot, making him a Cao Ren-lite. Heavily nerfed in Z though.

** In the first game, because of how the element system works with the Samurai Warriors roster, KOEI decided that that almost every multi hitting charge attack outside of C3 for the Dynasty Warriors roster carries elements on each hit and decided that the C1 and C2 that didn't have elements from the get-go would activate elements as well. This turned out to be a very bad idea. C1 attack that involve charging to enemies ranks become an I-Win-Button, C2 become a really fast, reliable way to juggle and activate element, therefore dealing quick massive damage, and multi hitting charge become insane damage dealer. This is the whole reason why some of Dynasty Character is very effective and why some characters notably Guan Ping(whose C4 does 3 ELEMENTAL hits), Cao Ren(whose arguably the best C1 Stomp user thanks to his versatility on setting up the Stomp loop), Diao Chan(very spammable C1 and dual elemental C4), and Zhang Liao(Essentialy, Diao Chan without her C3 and weaker C1 that have even better crowd clearing as a compensation) is very broken(to the point that Diao Chan is considered as the best character in the game) This is nerfed in second game by having C1, and C2 no longer carry element and nerf some charge attacks.

* KOEI again, but this time in ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]'' 6: Empires. Sun Quan's card, 'Unseen Rules', means the player will never get invaded. Ever. Played with the rest of the Sun Clan's cards, the player can dominate China in relatively few turns with ease.

* ''[[Dynasty Warriors]] 7'' allows in-battle weapon switching, for any character to just about any other moveset (with varying degrees of efficiency and effectiveness). One particular moveset, Twin Axes, has a four-hit charge attack that puts a single target into stunlock at the end of it. Now consider the "Attack Up" and "Officer Assassin" skill seals, which increase power in general and against officers in particular, respectively. The Twin Axes then become so comically overpowered that they can kill even a supercharged Lu Bu in a matter of minutes, to say nothing of other player characters or lesser generic officers.

** Also, Slippy, of all people, is incredibly broken in every situation outside the Arwing. On the ground, because of his high jumping ability, you can basically just keep jumping around in front of your opponent and completely dodge whatever they're doing while taking potshots at them. Combined with his above average health and his dominance in the Land Master, he's easily broken on maps where ground combat is an option. His only downfall is in the Arwing, where he's rather weak compared to most other characters. And he doesn't need to be unlocked, unlike Wolf. Peppy is arguably even more broken than Slippy using the same tactics.

** [[Star Fox Adventures]] gives us the Bafomdads, which revive you back to full health whenever you die. They are plentiful, but you can only carry one at a time...at least until you buy the Bafomdad Holder, which allows you to carry ''ten''. You will never need to worry about dying ever again once you have this, and it is actually cheap enough to buy as soon as you get your first Scarab Bag (and you'll find more than enough scarabs within the store itself!)

* Several players of ''[[Cave Story]]'' claim that the Level 2 Blade is one of these. At first glance, this seems confusing; it has less range than both its previous form and its following form, the game's lack of diagonal aiming makes the slight widening of range from Level 1 to Level 2 a negligible benefit, and the Blade as a whole is a single-shot weapon. It's the definition of the third aspect, though, that adds credibility to the claims -- "single-shot" translates here as "[[One Bullet At a Time|the last shot can't be onscreen before you can fire the next shot]]." The Level 2 Blade at point-blank range does the most damage per second of any weapon in the game. Therefore, by getting dangerously close to bosses and mashing the fire button, it's possible to spam the Blade repeatedly and kill almost any enemy in the game in a matter of seconds.

** For those who haven't played: the ''Otana'' is the Player Character's personal transport, a''civilian freighter'', but between the massive shield banks, nigh-impenetrable armour and auto-targeting laser turrets with 360° coverage it went through the series' signature fighters like a mower through grass. The Millenium Falcon was even worse, having all that and a high top speed to boot, but we can [[Cool Ship|kinda forgive that]].

* ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Rogue Squadron]]'' for the Nintendo 64 had the V-Wing airspeeder. It was fast and agile, possessed a unique rapid-fire feature for its blasters, and a speed booster as standard equipment. Its only initial downside is the secondary cluster missiles, which are dummy rockets that fire in a hexagonal pattern. However, these become a [[Game Breaker]] when you find the hidden power-up that makes each cluster rocket an individual seeker missile that can kill just about any TIE in a single hit. Armored targets fell quickly to these missiles as well, considering if all clusters hit a target the resulting damage made a proton torpedo look like a water balloon. Combine this powerful secondary weapon with the agility, speed, and firepower of the V-Wing and you have a very broken fighter.

** Think ''San Andreas'' is broken? Try ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories]]''. By taking over a few businesses, building High-Rollers and doing their missions early on, you can easily get 5-digit income every day... and you can speed through time by repeatedly getting Wasted or Busted. Combine this with the [[Mini Gun]] (although in all fairness, you can't get this until near the end of the game, but before that there are many other great weapons too), which thanks to your high income you can easily afford, and the game becomes a walk in the park.

* ''[[Diablo]]'''s Sorcerer was ridiculously easy to break by using the MS No-Stun bug. The "stun" that occurs if your character (or a monster) gets hit strongly enough is a huge part of the gameplay. But, Mana Shield can potentially cancel that. The problem is that it works by first applying damage to your life (as usual) but then converting it to your mana. If the damage is greater than your life, you're considered DEAD (and not stunned) for milliseconds until Mana Shield does its work. If your life ends up below your level (which is the stun threshold) you can never be stunned when using Mana Shield. Since sorcerers rely on Mana Shield in the normal gameplay anyway, well... To make it even worse, there's an otherwise feared enemy "Black Death" that when hitting you removes 1 of your maximum life, which you could use.

** The sequel is much, ''much'' worse when it comes to imbalance. A Paladin with the Blessed Hammer / Concentration combo can kill virtually everything in the entire game in seconds with no effort, and the beta 1.13 patch (likely to be the last) has done little to remedy this. It's even worse if they have the Teleport skill from the equally-overpowered Enigma Runeword.

* Some of the unlockable Extras in ''[[Lego Adaptation Game|Lego Star Wars]]'' make the game ridiculously easy to beat, even [[That One Level]], though actually finding some of them often results in [[Guide Dang It]]. Regenerate Hearts, which does [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], is surprisingly cheap to purchase and makes it almost impossible to die.

** Biggest gamebreaker though are the multipliers. The first one is usually quite expensive (half a million or more, and usually you need to have beaten most of the story before you can actually buy it), and merely doubles your income. This alone however makes getting True Jedi/Pirate/Archeologist/Wizard/Whatever in any level a doddle. But then the next one costs double the price, but with a x2 multiplier it's just a case of collecting the same amount again. The thing is, with these multipliers, is that they stack. x2 and x4 becomes x8. You can get x2, x4, x6, x8 and x10, or a multiplier of 3,840, making the lowest possible stud worth 38,400. By the time you've got the first two, you'll earn enough for the third without even trying, even though it costs ridiculous money. Get them all, and maxing out the money count can happen in minutes, giving you enough money to buy anything else.

* Beating the Hitman missions in [[Saints Row]] 2 will cause you to have unlimited rifle ammo. The Sniper Rifle can destroy a car in 2-5 bullets. Beating Corporate Warfare will give you unlimited RPG ammo, and can make those hard as hell car battles end in a few shots(did I forget to mention that getting the Annihilator will make things easier, and it still applies in a new game even if you didn't beat CW on the new save).

** That, sir, is ''nothing''. Saint's Row 2 will also give you, as a present for defeating certain ''minigame missions'', an infinite ammo shotgun that can shred tanks and infinite ammo dual-wielded fully-automatic magnum pistols that can shred ''deities.'' This is just for beating minigame missions. Which are available the moment you step into the world. Meaning, in effect, the moment you leave the [[Starter Zone]], you can beeline for these specific minigame missions and ''become a God of Death before embarking on the storyline missions.''

** But what about some of the trickier vehicle-based missions, you say? Well, apart from those dual-Cobras devouring anything in the universe, you can also pretty easily get your Wanted level up to the utmost and look around - not too hard, honestly, they will be everywhere - for one of those Spec Ops [[APCs]](the 'Bear') with the mounted gatling guns on the top. Jack one (also easy, as most of them are being used for barricades instead of chasing you, for some reason) and get it to a safehouse. Voila! Problem permanently solved. Get it to a garage and soop it the fuck up and you're basically golden, what with having an armor-plated death engine with a mounted gatling cannon with default infinite rounds on the top. There is basically nothing in the universe that can stand against you. Haaaave fun!

* From ''[[Battlestations Midway]]'' we have Torpedo Bombers and Torpedoes themselves. They can sink an enemy ship faster than Dive Bombers and even full on barrages of main guns from Destroyers, Cruisers, and even Battleships.

* In the arcade version of ''[[Double Dragon]]'', almost all of the enemies can be easily defeated by having the player turn his back and use the elbow attack (punch and jump simultaneously) on them. This is because enemy characters are normally hesitant to approach the player upfront, but are more than willing to attack from behind. The elbow attack has a wide range and knocks an enemy in one hit, the same effect as doing an uppercut or roundhouse kick, yet it's easier to perform and no matter how much the player abuses this technique, [[Artificial Stupidity|the enemy's A.I. doesn't bother to change its pattern]]. The elbow punch was considerably [[Nerf|nerfed]] in most of the sequels and home versions, if not outright removed.

* In the Flash game [http://www.kongregate.com/games/LordTim/great-dungeon-in-the-sky Great Dungeon in the Sky], you can basically sweep the whole game with any character with the [[Summon Magic|Summon Creature]] ability. Because enemies don't notice you unless you're on the same level as them, if you find a nice place to stand, you can just keep dropping monsters on them until they're dead. And one of the starting classes has it. For added amusement, unlock the Wind or Platinum Dragon: no need for a place to stand now, just [[Death From Above|hover in the air and summon baby dragons/skeletons]] until everything else in the room is dead.

 

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