History SceneryGorn / VideoGames

** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' deserves special mention for its many cutscenes depicting Raccoon City's descent into chaos, culminating in a nuclear strike that obliterates the entire town. It was very impressive CGI at the time, and even today the destruction is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_F0XgBrcYY glorious to behold]].

* In ''VideoGame/SplinterCellConviction'', [[spoiler: Downtown Washington, D.C. after the EMP bombs go off]] with wrecked buildings or vehicles, fires in the streets and various casualties (you even get to see [[spoiler: someone succumb to his wounds before your eyes, with his companion weeping over his body]]) does more to drive in the evil of [[spoiler: Tom Reed]]'s plan than any amount of [[AndThatsTerrible ranting]] could. Similarly, the inside of [[spoiler: the White House]] is also disturbing.

* At the beginning of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', the Penguin greets Bruce by welcoming him to Hell. Suffice it to say he's not being hyperbolic, and the burning, dilapidated environmental detail immediately lets you know it.

** Another scene not that long afterwards (well, relatively; this is an [[RolePlayingGame RPG]] we're talking about) involves ''literal'' gore as well, which also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome -- your party must outrun the Midgar Zolom to proceed, which, at this point in the game, is very strong. Upon escaping it, they prepare to enter the Mythril Mine... [[spoiler:and see the corpse of another Midgar Zolom impaled on a tree, courtesy of Sephiroth]].

* ''[[VideoGame/SegaSuperstars Sonic and All-Stars Racing 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, [[VidgeoGame/SkiesOfArcadia Rogues Landing]] and [[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sanctuary Falls]] start off rather peaceful, but by the third lap, the respective series' [[BigBad Big Bads]] blow half of the areas off.

* ''FistOfTheNorthStar: Ken's Rage'' has several of its stages take place in decaying post-nuclear-apocalyptic cities.

** Halfway through the first act of Angel Island Zone in ''Sonic3AndKnuckles'', the jungle the stage takes place in is set on fire. It continues to burn throughout the rest of the stage.

** The Mushroomy Kingdom stage is almost this. It is a decayed, abandoned, desolate version of the classic World 1-1 from SuperMarioBros. What it lacks in actual ruins (aside from the blocks and pipes), it makes up for with wasteland and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u589pvON9nE tragic remixes]].

* ''EpicMickey'', most places are dark and ruined by default thanks to the [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Thinner Disaster]]. Places such as a ruined theme park and a ghost ship are downright nightmarish.

* One of the first few things to realize in ''InazumaEleven 2'' is that the whole Raimon academy is totally destroyed by aliens. The scene specially pans on the soccer club, which is the heroes' important stronghold in the first game. The school gets better, and more fabulous than ever.

* ''FinalFantasyXV'' gives us Insomnia in the World of Ruin. While it's implied that the rest of the world is the same, Insomnia is the only place you get to explore. The once-bustling city is shrouded in eternal night, its streets littered with debris and crawling with daemons. One particularly breathtaking moment has you standing atop the tallest building looking down at the city, which is completely dead and silent.

* The [[BadFuture bad futures]] in ''VideoGame/SonicCD'' are dystopian worlds corrupted by Dr. Eggman. Sonic can make these futures better if he fixes what Eggman has done wrong in the past.

** Its sequel, ''AliceMadnessReturns'' wavers between gorgeous scenery porn (Oriental area) and horrific scenery gorn (the Hatter's Domain) until [[spoiler: Queensland]]. Then gorn rules the day.

* This trope is almost the entire point of ''SpaceFuneral''.

* The [[BadFuture bad futures]] in ''SonicCD'' are dystopian worlds corrupted by Dr. Eggman. Sonic can make these futures better if he fixes what Eggman has done wrong in the past.

* ''[[SegaSuperstars Sonic and All-Stars Racing 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, [[VidgeoGame/SkiesOfArcadia Rogues Landing]] and [[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sanctuary Falls]] start off rather peaceful, but by the third lap, the respective series' [[BigBad Big Bads]] blow half of the areas off.

* ''Bare Knuckle 3'', a Japanese version of the third ''StreetsOfRage'' game, has this very trope [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JgR7xnWrXg as one of its bad endings.]] [[NightmareFuel No wonder it got bowdlerized in the west...]]