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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 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 straightforward 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.
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Mecha
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
- Hawken
- Heavy Gear
- Hover Attack
- IGPX Immortal Grand Prix video games
- Kagirinaki Tatakai
- The Super Dimension Fortress Macross video games
- MechAssault
- MechWarrior series
- MechCommander
- Metal Fatigue
- Metal Head
- Metal Marines
- Metal Storm
- Metal Warriors
- Mobile Suit Gundam video games
- Neon Genesis Evangelion video games
- One Must Fall 2097
- Patlabor
- Perpetuum
- 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
- Zone of the Enders series
Freeware
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
- Super Mario Kart
- Mario Kart 64
- Mario Kart: Double Dash‼
- Mario Kart: Super Circuit
- Mario Kart DS
- Mario Kart Wii
Crash Kart Series
Generic Go-Kart Racing
Other Kart racers with battle modes
- Cel Damage
- Charinko Hero
- Cocoto Kart Racer
- Freaky Flyers
- Diddy Kong Racing
- Looney Tunes: Space Race
- Muppet RaceMania
- Shrek: Smash n' Crash
- Skunny Karts
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
- Speed Punks
- Wacky Races
- Wacky Wheels
- Walt Disney's Magical Racing Tour
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