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{{quote|"HEAVY WEAPON!"|Title Screen}}
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''[[Heavy Weapon]]'' is a [[Horizontal Scrolling Shooter|side-scrolling]] [[Shoot'Em Up]] developed by [[Pop Cap]] Games and released in 2005. An [[Updated Rerelease]] was ported to the [[Xbox 360]] in 2007.
 
A [[Dirty Communists|Red Star]] invasion of the world destroys nearly all the Allied troops. As the Allies' final hope, the player takes the role of the commander of an Atomic Tank to repel the invaders back into the main headquarters of Red Star.
 
Not to be confused with the [[Team Fortress 2|Heavy Weapons Guy]]. He'd likely enjoy this game, though.
 
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=== Tropes used for this game: ===
* [[Action Bomb]]: Barskov Munitions Blimps explode into multiple energy orbs when defeated. There are also Tachrok Ballistic Missiles and [[Goddamned Bats|Fovraski Cruise Missiles]] that will try to drop onto you, although they do not do [[Splash Damage]] when they hit the ground.
* [[Advancing Boss of Doom|Advancing Mook Of Doom]]: The Bulldozer enemies. They will just keep moving towards you and will kill you if you touch them. To prevent this, you will have to fire at them to push them back. Trouble is, these things are usually fought with [[Airborne Mook|Airborne Mooks]], making it hard to efficiently destroy them.
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* [[Collision Damage]]: You don't take any damage if you run into a tank or missile truck. However, you die instantly if you run into the War Wrecker's wrecking ball, a bulldozer, Kommie Kong, Mechworm or X-Bot.
* [[Competitive Multiplayer]]: The "Arms Race" survival mode, where each player tries to be the last tank standing.
* [[Continuing Is Painful]] / [[Unstable Equilibrium]]: Unlike many [[Shoot'Em Up|Shmups]] where you gain back around 3 [[Smart Bomb|Smart Bombs]] on death, you ''lose'' all your [[Smart Bomb|Nukes]] as well as Megalaser parts when you die! Bonus frustration if you were at full shields and got destroyed by a [[One-Hit Kill]]- you lose those extra shielding too! Needless to say, if you die in a level when you had maximum shields and nukes before, you might as well quit and restart.
* [[Cool Airship]]: War Blimp, the third boss. It sports a [[Tractor Beam]] that makes it rain meteors!
* [[Co-Op Multiplayer]]: The Xbox360 version of the game has this for the War Party survival mode.
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* [[Denial of Diagonal Attack]]: Completely averted, as your tank aims with the mouse and as such, it can aim anywhere.
* [[Destructible Projectiles]] / [[Shoot the Bullet]]: Most enemy bombs and missiles can be shot down. This becomes an important mechanic when you face against [[Demonic Spiders|Atomic Bombers]], because if their bombs touch the ground, you're toast regardless of shields!
* [[Difficulty by Region|Difficulty By Console]]: The [[Xbox 360]] version of the game makes some bosses easier while making others more difficult. [[Warmup Boss|Twinblade]] shoots four missiles instead of two, the Battleship fully appears on the screen (instead of showing half of it in the PC version).
** On the bright side, you have more room to avoid War Wrecker's, Gorillazilla's, Mechworm's and X-Bot's [[One-Hit Kill]] contact attacks in the Xbox360 version.
** And of course, your aiming and movement are separate in the console version, taking away one of the most annoying forms of [[Fake Difficulty]].
* [[Dirty Communists]]: Your opponents, the "Red Star" are obviously based off these.
{{quote| "Take that, you commie pigs!"}}
* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: X-Bot, which you fight in the enemy's [[Capital City]].
* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]: The Mechworm throws out chunks of sandy rock whenever it jumps out of the sand, while the rematch against War Wrecker has the boss' wrecking ball toss up rocks whenever it scrapes the floor.
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* [[Fictional Counterpart]]: Most of the levels. Frigistan (Pakistan or Kyrgyzstan), Blastnya (Bosnia), Petrovakia (Slovakia), Zamblamia (Zambia), Tankylvania and Vodkavania (Transylvania), Antagonistan (Afghanistan) and Killingrad (Leningrad).
* [[Fighter Launching Sequence]] with Atomic Tanks!
* [[Final Exam Boss]]: Arguably, the [[Final Boss]].
** The first phase has it shoot two [[One-Hit Kill]] lasers that either go straight down, diagonally, or curve around. This part tests you on precise movement and control, because you die if you graze them.
** The second phase has it shoot random purple shots over the place, while periodically dropping an A-bomb that will [[One-Hit Kill]] you should it hit the ground. You have to aim precisely to put the damage on the A-bomb before it toasts you.
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* [[Segmented Serpent]]: The above-mentioned [[Sand Worm|Mechworm]], attack its head to defeat it.
* [[Sequential Boss]]: The final boss.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** "Kommie Kong", a large robotic monkey who is an obvious reference to ''[[King Kong]]'' and ''[[Donkey Kong]]''. His name was changed to Gorilla[[Godzilla|zilla]] in the [[Updated Rerelease]] for the Xbox 360 and [[Play Station 3]].
** Bustczar was renamed "[[Led Zeppelin|Head Zeppelin]]" in the Xbox360 version.
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* [[Tank Goodness]]: Your character!
* [[Title Scream]]
* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: Most of the bosses during the rematch against them. The [[Warmup Boss]] Twinblade now has two indestructible gun turrets. The once-[[Breather Boss]] [[Epic Flail|War Wrecker]] can now extend its chain to [[Dishing Out Dirt|toss up rocks from the ground]], making it a lot harder to evade damage.
* [[Tractor Beam]]: Used by the War Blimp to cause meteors to rain down on you.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: You can shoot down the white support helicopters that are affected by friendly fire. The game will know about this, and dock off many points from you (or in the case of a survival run, half a minute) from you if you do so.
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** Antagonistan (The Badlands): [[Shifting Sand Land]]
** Killingrad (Caliber City): [[Capital City]]
* [["Wake -Up Call" Boss]]: War Blimp has rather nasty-to-avoid "roto-mines", which are basically homing bombs that you have to shoot down before they hit you. These can actually be more dangerous than its [[Death From Above|Meteor Tractor Beam]].
** War Wrecker is definitely this for first-time players who do not know how to avoid its [[One-Hit Kill]] wrecking ball.
** If you found War Blimp moderate and the War Wrecker easy, then Kommie Kong would be this. It will kill you so long as you brush against it (but it shouldn't be too hard to avoid touching him), and its missiles that explode into multiple shots aren't exactly the easiest things to avoid (at least in the PC version).
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* [[Weaponized Car]]: "Modified Pickup Trucks", which are regular pickup trucks with an RPG attached to them.
* [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]]: After the [[Final Boss]]' defeat, the leader of the Red Star requests for his side to surrender and stop the fighting. Your tank driver promptly shoots him.
{{quote| "We surrender, Yankee tank... no more." *gets shot by tank*<br />
"Nice try, buddy... [[Genre Savvy|but I'm not falling for that trick again]]." }}
* [[Worm Sign]]: Sand clouds are thrown up from the ground before Mechworm jumps out of that spot.
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