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* In the space combat portion of ''StarWarsEmpireAtWar'', most capital ships and space stations have targetable subsystems for almost any system: each individual weapon, shield generator, engine, and hangar. In fact, the only way to destroy a ship is to destroy all subsystems. The ships show realistic damage when subsystems are blown up. Normally, ships have to take down shields first before targetting subsystems, but torpedoes and mass drivers easily pass through shields.

* ''SwordOfTheStars'' allows you to knock off turrets and ship sections for destroyers and cruisers, but dreadnoughts play CriticalExistenceFailure straight.

* In the space combat portion of ''StarWarsEmpireAtWar'', most capital ships and space stations have targetable subsystems for almost any system: each individual weapon, shield generator, engine, and hangar. In fact, the only way to destroy a ship is to destroy all subsystems. The ships show realistic damage when subsystems are blown up. Normally, ships have to take down shields first before targettijf subsystems, but torpedoes and mass drivers easily pass through shields.

* ''SecondSight'' (StealthBasedGame) and ''{{Penumbra}}'' (AdventureGame with a dash of SurvivalHorror) both use the most basic form, with the main character limping when injured.

* In [[{{MetalGearSolid4}} Metal Gear Solid 4]], shooting an enemy in the leg will cause them to limp. Arm injuries will cause his hands to shake and decrease their firing accuracy. [[BoomHeadshot Headshots are always fatal]] unless they're wearing helmets.

* Isaac of DeadSpace moves with a lot of gasping, grunting and limping when seriously injured.

** ''{{Fallout 3}}'', on the other hand, ''does'' track damage to body parts. And they can simply be healed with stimpacks.

** The final sequel, ''X-Wing Alliance'', had an even more improved system, allowing individual turbolaser turrets to be taken off capital ships, as well as nearly every subsystem. Taking enough time, one could completely strip a ship down to little more than a hull floating in space. *** Given even more time and a fighter with strong enough shields to withstand a few turret shots, it's possible to single-handedly disable enough weapons that a capital ship can no longer hurt you. Then you can disable the engines so it sits still in space, and then you rest an object on the fire button, go drink a coffee, and return to your ship firing lasers at nothing, the capital ship now reduced to a few chunks of hull floating around.

** The final sequel, ''X-Wing Alliance'', had an even more improved system, allowing individual turbolaser turrets to be taken off capital ships, as well as nearly every subsystem. Taking enough time, one could completely strip a ship down to little more than a hull floating in space.

* ''DeusEx'' has separate health for each body part of an entity. As each is damaged, a corresponding change occurs (you're weakened and can't aim as well, you can't run or can only crawl, your vision is murky, etc?) and can you choose to heal individual body parts.

* ''DwarfFortress'' does this for every living organism except vermin, tracking damage on down to individual fingers, toes, and organs.

** And destroying the warp core/Power plant kills a ship/station outright even if they are probably over %50 percent integrity

* The ''{{Fallout}}'' series has locational targeting for both robots and living things (for example: The head, eyes, torso, arms, groin, and legs on anthropoids.) Accuracy, damage, and critical hits are effected by which body part is attacked, but the health of individual body parts aren't tracked. Attacking some extremities will result in an injury (limp, blindness, etc?) which can't be healed without the services of a surgeon.

* ''Star Raiders'' (1979) was one of the earliest examples of this. Your ship's shields, engines, weapons, targeting computer, and scanners could be damaged or outright destroyed.

* As if MechWarrior wasn't a givaway, the hex based wargame ''BattleTech'' is all about this. Not only do the 'mechs have locational damage for the limbs, four torso locations, and the head, but the individual subsystems, weapons and so on that are contained within them can be damaged too. This means you can trigger ammunition explosions that tear one apart from the inside, disable the gyroscope so it falls over, or go for a critical hit directly on the pilot...