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

* The final boss of ''[[Lunar 2 Eternal Blue Complete|Lunar 2: Eternal Blue]]'' has a beam attack that hits for over 7000 damage, when your characters can have a maximum of 999 hit points, and most likely have 500-600. This gives him a guaranteed [[One Hit KO]] attack even against characters with protection against the [[Useless Useful Spell]] versions.

* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', in your fight with Vulcan Raven, he uses a gatling gun that ''he took from a F-16'' to shoot you with, while the most effective weapon to use against him is a Stinger missile launcher.

* ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' didn't qualify until the second game, in which Jak got a [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] possessing ''two'' kill-everything-on-the-screen attacks, as well as flickers of [[Rule of Cool|cool]] purple lightning that followed his attacks. Then he got a gun capable of firing a lightning orb that blows up every hovercar on the screen. Then the third game handed him an ''upgrade'' to this gun which burns through at least half of your ammo in one shot...a shot which is so large ''it gets its own mushroom cloud''. As well as a variant form of his yellow gun which fires an [[Attack Drone]] that [[More Dakka|spams out ammo so fast it resembles a small but deadly rainstorm]]. Someone's really got to explain the concept of 'less than total destruction' to him. Ditto with [[Aristocrats Are Evil|Baron Praxis]], who intends to stop the Metal Heads with {{spoiler|''a bomb that can blow up the universe! All of it! That's less like "overkill" and more like "omnikill"!''}}

* ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' often have guns which veer [[BFG|encouragingly close]] to being overkill. Starting with the RYNO and moving up to its ''Deadlocked'' equivalent, which ''rains laser beams from orbit''. And then there's Clank's [[Humongous Mecha]] form, which, in the second game, is entirely capable of ''razing every building on a [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|small]] but heavily urbanised moon''... You get a ''[[Rewarding Vandalism|Skill Point]]'' for that, too.

* ''[[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.