History SceneryGorn / VideoGames

** [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 The 2006 game]] and ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' feature Crisis City, a desolate, ruined city of the future full of flames and wreckage.
*** Also returning in Generations is the ruined Station Square that Perfect Chaos flooded and wrecked in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure''. Some of the broken highways are clearly remnants of the Speed Highway stage (which is also in both games).

* Because of the post-apocalyptic setting for ''FragileDreamsFarewellRuinsOfTheMoon'', expect areas like a deserted amusement park and subway station to be full of this trope.

* Planet Helghan from ''{{Killzone}} 2''.

** UpToEleven in LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII . Near the end of the game, you can see [[spoiler: What amounts to a world spanning tornado ravaging familiar locales from the previous games, including the above-mentioned Oerba]] Justified considering the [[EndOfTheWorldSpecial very nature of the game.]]

* ''[[Franchise/{{Halo}} Halo 3: ODST]]'' plays this especially strongly during the nighttime segments of prowling the Covenant-occupied New Mombasa. Abandoned cars, destroyed vehicles, and burning buildings are common.
** HaloReach takes this UpToEleven, particularly in the level "New Alexandria". Made harsher by SceneryPorn in the first chapters.
** The end section of the third level of ''VideoGame/{{Halo4}}'' lets you experience Scenery Gorn that's in the process of being made, as you ride a permanently-boosting Ghost through the canyons of Requiem's core level while the landscape all around you is being violently torn apart by a slipspace anomaly overhead, accompanied by Grunts running for their lives, the ground itself seizing and fragmenting beneath you, and "[[SongsInTheKeyOfPanic Escape]]".

* Many "City" stages in ''{{Contra}}'' series are this, usually since you're required to jump from a destroyed building to another while dodging alien rushes and bullets.

** The city of New Marais in the sequel has its own example in Flood Town - a ruined parish, still flooded and in ruin, with scrawled messages all over the buildings as the people who live there try to hold on.

* Being set in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', ''DawnOfWar'', its expansions and sequel, has this trope out the wazoo. Levels of devastation range from "simple" craters and structural damage to piles of bodies and ruined vehicles to the very ground and sky itself mutilated and warped by the influence of [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace the Immaterium]].

** The end section of the third level of ''VideoGame//{{Halo4}}'' lets you experience Scenery Gorn that's in the process of being made, as you ride a permanently-boosting Ghost through the canyons of Requiem's core level while the landscape all around you is being violently torn apart by a slipspace anomaly overhead, accompanied by Grunts running for their lives, the ground itself seizing and fragmenting beneath you, and "[[SongsInTheKeyOfPanic Escape]]".

* ''[[SegaSuperstars Sonic and Racing [=All-Stars=] Transformed]]'': In a span of a three-lap race, the game loves to invoke literal destruction of a stage's landmarks in order to change the track's layout and force racers into different vehicle modes. For example, [[SkiesOfArcadia Rogues Landing]] starts as a port town, but ends up as scattered floating masses filled with mines when the surrounding pirate ships blow everything up.

* ''[[SegaSuperstars Sonic and Racing [=All-Stars=] Transformed]]'': In a span of a three-lap race, the game loves to invoke literal distruction of a stage's landmarks in order to change the track's layout and force racers into different vehicle modes. For example, [[SkiesOfArcadia Rogues Landing]] starts as a port town, but ends up as scattered floating masses filled with mines when the surrounding pirate ships blow everything up.

* ''[[SegaSuperstars Sonic and Racing [=All-Stars=] Transformed]]'': In a span of three-lap race, the game loves to invoke literal distruction of a stage's landmarks in order to change the track's layout and force racers into different vehicle modes. For example, [[SkiesOfArcadia Rogues Landing]] starts as a port town, but ends up as scattered floating masses filled with mines when the surrounding pirate ships blow everything up.

* ''[[SegaSuperstars Sonic and Racing Allstars Transformed]]'': In a span of three-lap race, the game loves to invoke literal distruction on a stage's landmarks in order to change the track's layout and force racers into different vehicle modes. For example, [[SkiesOfArcadia Rogues Landing]] starts as a port town, but ends up as scattered floating masses filled with mines when the surrounding pirate ships blow everything up.

* ''SegaSuperstars Sonic and Racing Allstars Transformed'': In a span of three-lap race, the game likes to invoke literal distruction on a stage's landmarks in order to change the track's layout and force racers into different vehicle modes. For example, [[SkiesOfArcadia Rogues Landing]] starts as a port town, but ends up as scattered floating masses filled with mines when the surrounding pirate ships blow everything up.

* ''SegaSuperstars Sonic and Racing Allstars Transformed'': In a span of three-lap race, the game invokes literal distruction on a stage's landmarks in order to change the track's layout and force racers into different vehicle modes. For example, [[SkiesOfArcadia Rogues Landing]] starts as a port town, ends up a scattered floating island masses filled with mines as some pirate ships blow everything up.

* Many city stages in ''Contra'' series tend to be half-ruins, if not outright destroyed areas, that are infected with kamikaze foot soldiers, robots, fire pits, and huge aliens.

** [[spoiler:Infernal Tokyo, a version of Tokyo]] that's bruised up, on fire in many areas, and full of smoke and rubble, thanks to the constant turf wars by the various Demonoid factions. Unlike the above entry, at least the region is still quite recognizable.

** [[spoiler:Infernal Tokyo, a version of Tokyo]] that's bruised up, on fire in many areas, and full of smoke and rubble, thanks to the constant turf wars by the various Demonoid factions.

** [[spoiler:Blasted Tokyo, a version of Tokyo that's been leveled by the angels so badly that the entire prefecture is nothing but desert, massive craters, a Rainbow Bridge just intact enough to let you cross to a plot-important area, and underground shelters.]] It's so ruined beyond recognition that the game doesn't bother labeling the various districts as you travel through them on the map.
** [[spoiler:Infernal Tokyo, a version of Tokyo that's bruised up, on fire in many areas, and full of smoke and rubble, thanks to the constant turf wars by the various Demonoid factions.]]