There Is No Kill Like Overkill/Video Games: Difference between revisions

** Hilariously inverted with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4omz3nrUw4 this] one by [[Fan Nickname|Chi]]... er... Hong Meiling.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLUKkdhv5Zc All you need to know about Touhou Soccer.]

* ''[[Cross Edge]]'' allows you to beat enemies beyond death with high-damage combination attacks in order to get hard-to-find items useful for [[Item Crafting]].

** ''[[Record of Agarest War]]'' is based on a variation of ''Cross Edge'''s system, and also allows overkills. Normal item drops are random in Aragest, but an overkill guarantees an item.

*** Lets just say this entire game is based around overkill. Even the military needs to use overkill just to put a dent in Alex.

* If you keep on attacking your opponent even after they are long gone, ''[[Blaz Blue]]'' will actually award you a trophy for it: "It's The Only Way To Be Sure."

** Ragna, with his Astral Heat, slices the opponent with his [[Sinister Scythe]], then transforms into... something... and then erases the target from reality. Really.

** With Haku-men's Astral Heat, Akumetsu, the screen is so filled with [[Gory Discretion Shot|blood]] that it turns black for a second.

* ''[[Empire Earth]]'' includes an epic version of the age progression present in the ''[[Age of Empires]]'' series. Once you get your first level of rifle infantry they are utterly devastating compared to the previous tiers of footmen, but of course, military superiority altogether can be taken to absurd levels depending on how fast you can rise through the eras relative to your opponent. Are you nuking individual cavemen?

* With the ability to summon ''anything'', ''[[Scribblenauts]]'' is rife with opportunities for this. Park full of trash? Use a black hole. Bee attacking you? Time for a [[Gatling Good|minigun]]. Defeat a barracuda with [[Eldritch Abomination|Cthulhu]]! Summon God as your personal bodyguard! And so on...

* ''[[Homeworld]]'''s capital ships were heavily armored. The concentrated fire used to kill them off quickly commonly involved 10-50 capital ships, each firing 1-4 enormous ion cannons ''at the same target''. The last few missions of the original game could involve hundreds of ships concentrating fire on a single target.

* In the last mission of ''[[Freespace 2]]'' the genocidal Shivans {{spoiler|invade and destroy an entire star system}} in what can only come across as a literally astronomical dick move, given their enigmatic motives.

* In ''[[Modern Warfare|Call of Duty 4]]'''s Death from Above there is nothing more satisfying than using the 105mm to kill a single enemy soldier just because you have the time.

** Strangely enough, a reflection of [[Real Life]]. You can find several videos of [[AC 130]] missions on youtube; in at least one of them the gunship is shooting at a lone infantryman who keeps evading the smaller shots by zigzagging around (he only succeeds because the time-to-target is several seconds). Then the gunner gets bored and/or irritated enough to fire the big gun...

** On the topic of tactical bombings, there is a Target Locator. It rarely ever appears, but when it does, it fires bombs the size of enemy units. Firing this upon large crowds of Grunts can prove very pleasing.

* In the ''[[Penny Arcade Adventures]]'' games, killing someone with an overkill causes you to kill them in slow motion, and then get a +5% damage bonus. This goes all the way up to +75% in each game, per character.

* The [[Saints Row]] series has this happen every so often.

** When your "Wanted" rating gets high enough, whether from a gang or from the police, they send out the big guns, possibly for just one man. These "big guns" can include genetically-engineered supermen, a [[Flechette Storm]] of grenades, a girl who can [[Flash Step]] while [[Dual-Wielding]] Uzis... and a tank.

** If you let the statue in Steelport get blown up in Saints Row the Third, the paramilitary group that has declared martial law deploys a massive flying fortress to scrub the town in order to get rid of you once and for all.

** Some of the weapons you can get tend to qualify for this as well... employing a rocket launcher against a single person or even a car, calling an airstrike against someone, deploying a drone to fire a missile at one person... overkill is just another day in the office in Stilwater.