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Vehicular combat (also known as car combat) games are typically video or computer games where the primary focus of play concerns automobiles or other motor vehicles, normally armed with guns or other weaponry, attempting to destroy vehicles controlled by the CPU or by opposing players. The genre normally features a variety of different vehicles available for play, each with its own strengths, weaknesses, and special attack abilities. Players may also unlock hidden vehicles by completing certain in-game tasks. Traditionally, vehicular combat games focus on fast-paced action inside the vehicle, rarely, if ever, concerning themselves with role-playing or other elements. Games may include racing themes, but they are generally secondary to the action.

Gameplay

Vehicular combat games normally follow a simple play pattern; the player must defeat increasing numbers of increasingly skilled enemies, often in increasingly complex battlefields, before facing off against a final, super-powerful, boss character. Vehicular combat games differ from traditional racing games both in the combat aspect and in the general lack of any set path for players to follow, instead allowing them to explore each level at their leisure. The complexity and strategy required to complete games vary, from the careful resource maintenance and intense story-driven plotlines of the Interstate '76 series to straight-forward smashups like World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Crush Hour. Often the primary plot will involve a contest or competition of some sort, encouraging the various characters to fight and destroy one another to obtain a reward. The Twisted Metal series is especially well known for the black humor found in its ending sequences.

Sub-genres

Car combat

187 Ride or Die (2005)
Auto Assault (2006)
Autoduel (1985)
Bandits: Phoenix Rising (2002)
BattleWheels
Blood Drive (2010)
Blur (2010)
Bump 'n' Jump (1982)
Burnout series (2001–2008)
Car Combat (Retro Studios)
Carmageddon series (1997)
Crash Tag Team Racing (2005)
Cel Damage (2001, 2002)
Command & Conquer: Renegade (2002)
Crash 'n Burn (1993)
Crashday (2006)
Crashing Race (1976)
Darkwind: War on Wheels (2007)
Dead in the Water
Death Race (1976, 1990)
Death Rally (1996, 2009)
Deathtrack (1989)
Destruction Derby series (1995, 96)
D.I.P.R.I.P.
Fired Up (2005)
FlatOut series (2004, 2006, 2007)
Full Auto series
- Full Auto (2006)
- Full Auto 2: Battlelines (2006, 2007)
Hard Truck: Apocalypse (2006)
Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 (2009)
Interstate series
- Interstate '76 (1997)
- Interstate '82 (1999)
Jak X: Combat Racing (2005)
Knight Rider (1989, 1990)
Lego Racers (1999)
Lego Racers 2 (2001, 2002)
Lucky & Wild (1992)
Mad Truckers, a 3D racing arcade
Mario Kart, with Nintendo's usual character line-up. (1992–2008)
Mashed series (2004)
MegaRace series
- MegaRace (1994)
- MegaRace 2 (1996)
ModNation Racers (2010)
Moon Patrol (1982)
Necrodome (1996)
Novadrome (2006)
Outlander (1992, 1993)
Pursuit Force series
- Pursuit Force (2005, 2006)
- Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice (2007, 2008)
Quarantine (1994)
- Quarantine II: Road Warrior
Rally-X (1980)
- New Rally-X (1981)
Red Dog (1999, 2000)
Redline (1999)
Re-Volt (1999)
RoadBlasters (1987)
RoadKill (2003)
Rock n' Roll Racing (1993)
Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012 (1998)
Rollcage (video game) (1999)
S.C.A.R.S (1998)
San Francisco Rush 2049 (1999, 2000)
Split Second: Velocity (2010)
Spy Hunter series (1983)
Starsky & Hutch (2003)
Swypeout (2007)
Streets of SimCity (1997)
Toy Commander (1999)
Twisted Metal series (1995–2011)
- Twisted Metal (1995)
- Twisted Metal 2 (1996)
- Twisted Metal 3 (1999)
- Twisted Metal 4 (1999)
- Twisted Metal: Black (2001)
VCL Presents: Motor Mayhem
Vigilante 8 series (1998, 1999)
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Crush Hour
Wheelman (2009)
Zombie Driver (2009)
Horror Racing (2009)

Futuristic Race Combat

Boat & submarine combat

AquaNox series
Blood Wake
Critical Depth
Silent Hunter series
Dead In The Water
Tiger Shark

Tank combat

Alien Front Online, the primary good forces are tanks and the secondary alien forces are played as mechs
BattleTanx series
M1 Tank Platoon
M1 Tank Platoon II
Metal Drift
Panzer Front
Panzer Elite
Recoil
Steel Beasts
Steel Fury
Steel Reign
Team Yankee
Tread Marks
Wild Metal
Battlezone and Battlezone II: Combat Commander, although most of the tanks have anti-gravity engines instead of treads
Uprising Tank combat - Real-time strategy combination

Motorcycle combat

Space vehicle combat

Multi-vehicular

(List of games in which players use more than one vehicle during gameplay)

Mecha combat

This sub-genre of vehicular combat involves mech robots, or mecha, as the vehicle for combat. For most mech games, they are played in either first-person or third-person view style. Other games are based on popular Anime TV shows such as the various Gundam series, Robotech, and Evangelion. Also, games with a mech theme are featured in RPG games such as Xenosaga and the Front Mission series.

Another Century's Episode series
Armored Core series
Assault Suits series
Battle Engine Aquila
Border Break
Custom Robo series
Chromehounds
Cruise Chaser Blassty
Cybernator
Earthsiege
Eureka 7 video games
Exteel
Front Mission series, a tactical RPG mecha series
Ghen War
Ghost in the Shell
G-NOME
Gungriffon series
Gun Metal
Heavy Gear
Hover Attack
- Bangai-O series
IGPX Immortal Grand Prix video games
Kagirinaki Tatakai
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross video games
MechWarrior series
Mech Commander
Metal Fatigue
Metal Marines
Metal Storm
Metal Warriors
Mobile Suit Gundam video games
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Last Shooting, a first-person perspective shooter
- Mobile Suit Z-Gundam: Hot Scramble, a first-person shooter
Neon Genesis Evangelion video games
One Must Fall 2097
Patlabor
Phantom Crash
Robot Alchemic Drive
Robotech video games
Senko no Ronde
Slave Zero
Shattered Steel
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
Star Cruiser, a first-person shooter action RPG
Starsiege
Steel Battalion
Steel Battalion: Line of Contact
Super Robot Wars series
Tail Concerto
Thexder series
Transformers video games
Vanguard Bandits
Vastar
Virtual On
WiBArm, a third-person action RPG shooter
Xenogears
- Xenosaga series
Zone of the Enders series

Freeware mech games

Kart racers with battle modes

Battle modes for kart racing games are deathmatch battles influenced by the characters, karts and weapons used in the mode. The Mario Kart series demonstrates this kind of mode in its previous installments.

Mario Kart Series

Crash Kart Series

Generic Go-Kart Racing

Other Kart racers with battle modes

Notes and references

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 * ''[[187 Ride or Die]]'' (2005)
-*   [[Twisted Metal]] (1995)
-*   [[Twisted Metal 2]] (1996)
-*   [[Twisted Metal 3]] (1999)
-*   [[Twisted Metal 4]] (1999)
-*   [[Twisted Metal: Black]] (2001)
 * ''[[Auto Assault]]'' (2006)
 * ''[[Autoduel]]'' (1985)
 * ''[[Bandits: Phoenix Rising]]'' (2002)
 * ''[[BattleWheels]]''
-* ''[[Blood_Drive_(video_game)|Blood Drive]]'' (2010)
+* ''[[Blood Drive (video game)|Blood Drive]]'' (2010)
 * ''[[Blur (video game)|Blur]]'' (2010)
+* ''[[Bump 'n' Jump]]'' (1982)
 * ''[[Burnout (series)|Burnout]]'' series (2001–2008)
-* ''[[Car Combat]]''([[Retro Studios]])
+* ''[[Car Combat]]'' ([[Retro Studios]])
 * ''[[Carmageddon]]'' series (1997)
 * ''[[Crash Tag Team Racing]]'' (2005)
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 * ''[[Crash 'n Burn (video game)|Crash 'n Burn]]'' (1993)
 * ''[[Crashday]]'' (2006)
+* ''[[List of Taito games|Crashing Race]]'' (1976)
 * ''[[Darkwind: War on Wheels]]'' (2007)
 * ''[[Dead in the Water (video game)|Dead in the Water]]''
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 ** ''[[MegaRace 2]]'' (1996)
 * ''[[ModNation Racers]]'' (2010)
-* ''[[Necrodome]]''
+* ''[[Moon Patrol]]'' (1982)
+* ''[[Necrodome]]'' (1996)
 * ''[[Novadrome]]'' (2006)
 * ''[[Outlander (video game)|Outlander]]'' (1992, 1993)
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 * ''[[Quarantine (video game)|Quarantine]]'' (1994)
 ** ''[[Quarantine II: Road Warrior]]''
+* ''[[Rally-X]]'' (1980)
+** ''[[New Rally-X]]'' (1981)
 * ''[[Red Dog: Superior Firepower|Red Dog]]'' (1999, 2000)
 * ''[[Redline (1999 video game)|Redline]]'' (1999)
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 * ''[[S.C.A.R.S. (video game)|S.C.A.R.S]]'' (1998)
 * ''[[San Francisco Rush 2049]] (1999, 2000)
+* ''[[Split Second: Velocity]]'' (2010)
-split second (2010)
 * ''[[Spy Hunter]]'' series (1983)
 * ''[[Starsky & Hutch (video game)|Starsky & Hutch]]'' (2003)
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 * ''[[Toy Commander]]'' (1999)
 * ''[[Twisted Metal (series)|Twisted Metal]]'' series (1995–2011)
+** ''[[Twisted Metal]]'' (1995)
+** ''[[Twisted Metal 2]]'' (1996)
+** ''[[Twisted Metal 3]]'' (1999)
+** ''[[Twisted Metal 4]]'' (1999)
+** ''[[Twisted Metal: Black]]'' (2001)
 * ''[[VCL Presents: Motor Mayhem]]''
 * ''[[Vigilante 8]]'' series (1998, 1999)
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 * ''[[Hi-Octane]]''
 * ''[[HoverRace]]''
+* ''[[List of SNK games|Mad Crasher]]''
 * ''[[Mag-Force Racing]]''
 * ''[[Planet of Death|POD]]'' series
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 * ''[[Quarantine (video game)|Quarantine]]''
 * ''[[Rush (video game series)|Rush]]'' series
+* ''[[Seicross]]''
 * ''[[Wipeout (series)|Wipeout]]'' series
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 * ''Dead In The Water''
 * ''Tiger Shark''
-</td><td>
 ===Tank combat===
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 * ''[[Battlezone (1998 video game)|Battlezone]]'' and ''[[Battlezone II: Combat Commander]]'', although most of the tanks have anti-gravity engines instead of treads
 * ''[[Uprising]]'' Tank combat - ''[[Real-time strategy]]'' combination
+</td><td>
 ===Motorcycle combat===
 * ''[[Extreme-G]]'' series
+* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' ([[Minigames of Final Fantasy#Final Fantasy VII minigames|G Bike]])
 * ''[[Mach Rider]]''
+* ''[[List of SNK games|Mad Crasher]]''
 * ''[[Road Rash]]'' series
+* ''[[Seicross]]''
-</td></tr></table>
-<div style="-moz-column-count:2;column-count:2;">
 ===Space vehicle combat===
+* ''[[Astron Belt]]''
 * ''[[Colony Wars]]'' series
 * ''[[Freespace]]'' series
 * ''[[Freelancer (video game)|Freelancer]]''
+* ''[[Lunar Rescue]]''
+* ''[[Moon Patrol]]''
 * ''[[Project Sylpheed]]''
+* ''[[Space Encounters]]''
+* ''[[List of Taito games|Space Seeker]]''
+* ''[[Space Tactics]]''
+* ''[[Star Trek (arcade game)|Star Trek]]''
 * ''[[Star Wars: Arcade]]''
 * ''[[Star Wars: Demolition]]''
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 * ''[[Star Wars: Rebel Assault]]'' series
 * ''[[Star Wars: Starfighter]]'' series
+* ''[[Tac/Scan]]''
 * ''[[X (game series)|X]]''
 * ''[[Starlancer]]''
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 * ''[[Unreal Tournament 3]]''
 * ''[[Darkwind: War on Wheels]]''
+</td></tr></table>
-</div>
 ===Mecha combat===
-This sub-genre of vehicular combat involves mech robots, or [[mecha]], as the vehicle for combat. For most mech games, they are played in either first-person or third-person view style. Other games are based on popular Anime TV shows such as the various [[Gundam]] series, ''[[Robotech]]'', and ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise|Evangelion]]''. Also, games with a mech theme are featured in RPG games such as ''[[Xenosaga]]'' and the ''[[Front Mission]]'' series.
+This sub-genre of vehicular combat involves mech robots, or [[mecha]], as the vehicle for combat. For most mech games, they are played in either first-person or third-person view style. Other games are based on popular [[Anime]] TV shows such as the various [[Gundam]] series, ''[[Robotech]]'', and ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise|Evangelion]]''. Also, games with a mech theme are featured in RPG games such as ''[[Xenosaga]]'' and the ''[[Front Mission]]'' series.
 <div style="-moz-column-count:2;column-count:2;">
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 * [[Custom Robo (series)|''Custom Robo'' series]]
 * ''[[Chromehounds]]''
+* ''[[Cruise Chaser Blassty]]''
 * ''[[Cybernator]]''
 * ''[[Earthsiege]]''
 * [[Eureka 7#Video games|''Eureka 7'' video games]]
 * ''[[Exteel]]''
-* [[Front Mission series|''Front Mission'' series]], a tactical RPG mecha series
+* [[Front Mission series|''Front Mission'' series]], a [[Tactical role-playing game|tactical RPG]] mecha series
 * ''[[Ghen War]]''
 * ''[[Ghost in the Shell (video game)|Ghost in the Shell]]''
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 * ''[[Gun Metal (computer game)|Gun Metal]]''
 * ''[[Heavy Gear#Computer games|Heavy Gear]]''
+* ''[[Bangai-O#Series|Hover Attack]]''
+** [[Bangai-O|''Bangai-O'' series]]
 * [[IGPX|''IGPX'' Immortal Grand Prix video games]]
+* ''[[List of Enix home computer games#1983|Kagirinaki Tatakai]]''
 * [[Macross#Video games|''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross'' video games]]
 * [[MechWarrior (video game series)|''MechWarrior'' series]]
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 * ''[[Metal Warriors]]''
 * [[List of Gundam video games|''Mobile Suit Gundam'' video games]]
+** ''[[Kidō Senshi Z-Gundam: Hot Scramble#Other information|Mobile Suit Gundam: Last Shooting]]'', a [[First person (video games)|first-person perspective]] shooter
+** ''[[Kidō Senshi Z-Gundam: Hot Scramble|Mobile Suit Z-Gundam: Hot Scramble]]'', a [[first-person shooter]]
 * [[List of Neon Genesis Evangelion media#Video games|''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' video games]]
 * ''[[One Must Fall: 2097|One Must Fall 2097]]''
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 * ''[[Shattered Steel]]''
 * ''[[Shogo: Mobile Armor Division]]''
+* ''[[:jp:スタークルーザー|Star Cruiser]]'', a [[first-person shooter]] [[action role-playing game|action RPG]]
 * ''[[Starsiege]]''
 * ''[[Steel Battalion]]''
 * [[Steel Battalion: Line of Contact]]''
-* [[Super Robot Wars| Super Robot Wars series]]
+* [[Super Robot Wars|''Super Robot Wars'' series]]
 * ''[[Tail Concerto]]''
+* [[Thexder|''Thexder'' series]]
 * [[Transformers (fiction)|''Transformers'' video games]]
 * ''[[Vanguard Bandits]]''
+* ''[[Vastar]]''
 * ''[[Virtual On]]''
+* ''[[Index of MS-DOS games (W)|WiBArm]]'', a [[Third person (video games)|third-person]] [[action role-playing game|action RPG]] [[Shooter game|shooter]]
 * ''[[Xenogears]]''
-* ''[[Xenosaga]]''
+** [[Xenosaga|''Xenosaga'' series]]
 * [[Zone of the Enders (series)|''Zone of the Enders'' series]]
 </div>
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 ==Kart racers with battle modes==
-Battle modes for kart racing games are deathmatch battles influenced by the characters, karts and weapons used in the mode.  The Mario Kart series demonstrates this kind of mode in its previous installments.
+Battle modes for kart racing games are [[Deathmatch (gaming)|deathmatch]] battles influenced by the characters, karts and weapons used in the mode.  The Mario Kart series demonstrates this kind of mode in its previous installments.
 '''Mario Kart Series'''