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EspañolVEHICULAR COMBAT GAME
'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.
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.
The ''Car Wars'' series could be considered a table-top vehicular combat game, and a spiritual predecessor to the genre.
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.
Battle modes for kart racing games are deathmatch battles influenced by the characters, karts and weapons you use in the mode.
| Contents |
| Gameplay |
| Partial list of general vehicular combat games |
| Partial list of mech combat games and games with a mecha theme |
| Kart racers with battle modes |
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.
Partial list of general vehicular combat games
★ ''187 Ride or Die'' ★ ''Auto Assault'' ★ ''Autoduel'' ★ ''Battle Tanx'' - Battle with tank vehicles ★ ''Blood Wake'' - Battle with power boats. ★ ''Burnout'' series ★ ''Car Combat'' ★ The ''Carmageddon'' series ★ ''Cel Damage'' ★ '' (Note same as above.) ★ ''Critical Depth'' ★ '' ★ ''Dead in the Water (video game)'' ★ ''Death Race'' ★ ''Death Rally'' ★ ''Deathtrack'' ★ ''Destruction Derby'' series ★ ''Flatout'' series ★ ''Full Auto'' ★ '' ★ '' | ★ ''Interstate '76'', its sequels and spinoffs ★ '' ★ ''Mad Truckers'', a 3D racing arcade. ★ 'Mashed' series ★ ''MegaRace'' ★ ''Motor Mayhem'' ★ ''Necrodome'' ★ ''Quarantine'' ★ '' ★ ''Road Rash'' series ★ '' ★ ''Saints Row'' (Though not dedicated to vehicular combat, it is part of the gameplay.) ★ '' ★ ''Streets of SimCity'' ★ The ''Twisted Metal'' series ★ ''Vigilante 8'', and its sequel ★ ''World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Crush Hour'' ★ ''The WheelMan'' |
The ''Car Wars'' series could be considered a table-top vehicular combat game, and a spiritual predecessor to the genre.
Partial list of mech combat games and games with a mecha theme
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.
★ ''Armored Core'' series ★ ''Custom Robo'' series ★ ''Earthsiege'' ★ ''Eureka 7'' video games ★ ''Front Mission'' series - A tactical RPG mecha series. ★ ''Heavy Gear'' ★ ''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross'' video games ★ ''MechWarrior'' Series ★ ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' video games ★ ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' video games ★ ''Robot Alchemic Drive'' | ★ ''Robotech'' video games ★ ''Starsiege'' ★ ''Slave Zero'' ★ ''Steel Batallion'' ★ '' ★ ''Super Robot Wars'' series ★ ''Transformers'' video games ★ ''Virtual On'' ★ ''Xenogears'' ★ ''Xenosaga'' ★ ''Zone of the Enders'' series |
Kart racers with battle modes
Battle modes for kart racing games are deathmatch battles influenced by the characters, karts and weapons you use in the mode.
★ ''Crash Nitro Kart'' ★ ''Crash Team Racing'' ★ ''Crash Tag Team Racing'' ★ '' ★ ''Mario Kart 64'' ★ '' ★ ''Speed Punks'' | ★ '' ★ ''Diddy Kong Racing'' ★ ''Super Mario Kart'' ★ ''Wacky Races'' ★ ''Wacky Wheels'' |
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