History GameBreaker / ThirdPersonShooter

*** Saber throw is a mite excessive in the overpoweredness department, too. Especially considering that the one time it was ever used in the movies it didn't kill anyone.

* Conker Live and Reloaded, does this with the Hogster, The Grunt's upgrade weapon: It's essentially a grenade launcher witch can fire in three different "modes" being Frag (standard grenade properties, bounces a bit and then 'splodes) Impact (explodes as soon as it hits the ground at the cost of reduced range) and Release (press the fire button after shooting to detonate whenever for increased range), the real gambreaker is the Hoogster does insane amount of damage regardless where you are when it explodes, Its blast radius and [[Splash Damage]] are so damaging and so far, if a grenade is even close to you expect to die (especially if you're a lower health class). Now if the Hogster only had the frag mode, this wouldn't be so bad as it takes quite a bit of time to explode, so the faster weaker classes have ample time to get away, but its Impact and Release mode make it so where one can detonate them as soon as it lands (in Impact) or while still in the air (for Release), combined with its large damage, you can literally kill anyone you can see on screen. The gun has almost no drawbacks, seeing as how ammo is unlimited in this game, you only have to worry about reloading. While it does have a long reload time (but still not the longest in the game) and a 2-shot clip, you can pretty much kill the entire team with both shots (or at least anyone posing an immediate threat).

*** Speaking of the infinite ammo unlocks, getting infinite ammo for assault rifles also gets you ammo for a ''25mm sniper rifle that kills anybody in one shot anywhere''. And, if you do stronghold missions as soon as they're available, said sniper rifle is given to you for free relatively early.

* StarWarsBattlefront 2: The Wookiees. They had above average health, access to drones, a grenade launcher. The Wookiee crossbow is a combination of a sniper rifle and a shotgun! The ability to do heavy damage up close and get a spread with this weapon and with charge it increases its power and range. Access to grenade launcher allows a Wookiee to go against vehicles adding to the insane versatility of the berserker. The only class barring hero that counters a Wookiee is the shock trooper who's shock gun can do more damage but lower health, reload and charge times means you have to have a really good escape.

** The award weapons, especially for Rebel basic soldier with award rifle and award pistol. Award guided rocket launcher allows you to stand behind a cliff out of any enemy's line of fire and pound them with a barrage of high-explosive missiles. Award rifle fires three-shot bursts, two hits (or one headshot) will take down anything. Award shotgun has about twice the effective kill range of a normal shotgun. Award pistol does as much damage as a normal sniper rifle, while you carry 96 shots and can make 16 shots before reloading. Award sniper rifle lets you kill an enemy by hitting them in the ''toe''.

* Conker Live and Reloaded, does this with the Hogster, The Grunt's upgrade weapon: It's essentially a grenade launcher witch can fire in three different "modes" being Frag (standard grenade properties, bounces a bit and then 'splodes) Impact (explodes as soon as it hits the ground at the cost of reduced range) and Release (press the fire button after shooting to detonate whenever for increased range), the real gambreaker is the Hogster does insane amount of damage regardless where you are when it explodes, Its blast radius and [[Splash Damage]] are so damaging and so far, if a grenade is even close to you expect to die (especially if you're a lower health class). Now if the Hogster only had the frag mode, this wouldn't be so bad as it takes quite a bit of time to explode, so the faster weaker classes have ample time to get away, but its Impact and Release mode make it so where one can detonate them as soon as it lands (in Impact) or while still in the air (for Release), combined with its large damage, you can literally kill anyone you can see on screen. The gun has almost no drawbacks, seeing as how ammo is unlimited in this game, you only have to worry about reloading. While it does have a long reload time (but still not the longest in the game) and a 2-shot clip, you can pretty much kill the entire team with both shots (or at least anyone posing an immediate threat).

* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' had a Colt M4 as one of its later, more powerful weapons whose rate of fire was on par with the 9mm pistol. BUT when you went into bullet-time the rate of fire stayed the same. Pinpoint accuracy in slow motion, heavy damage, 30 round magazine and the ability to have bullets riding each other's tails meant death to anything in the room.

* ''MaxPayne'' had a Colt M4 as one of its later, more powerful weapons whose rate of fire was on par with the 9mm pistol. BUT when you went into bullet-time the rate of fire stayed the same. Pinpoint accuracy in slow motion, heavy damage, 30 round magazine and the ability to have bullets riding each other's tails meant death to anything in the room.

* ''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' has the Leader Class, who gets some of the best weapons in the game and an ability that both increases their damage and armor called Warcry. Basically a juggernaut that can kill you in two shots. The basic strategy is to blow Warcry and bunny hop while spamming either the Fusion Cannon or the Magma Frag Launcher. Activision eventually did nerf them a bit, but they're still pretty insane.

** The OSMAW, a shoulder-mounted rocket launcher, also has the dubious distinction of being too effective. The launcher itself only carried two rockets, but it would destroy almost every car in one shot. The cars that could survive a rocket were often so low on health that any friendlies could shoot it with their normal weapons and destroy it in seconds anyways. It generally requires a near-direct impact to kill players, except that most firefights take place on streets, with cars being the only available cover. Also, [[EveryCarIsAPinto cars produce bigger booms than the rocket itself]]. A single OSMAW rocket can take out an entire team given the right conditions (ie. enough cars lying around).

* The first MassEffect game offers the explosive ammo mod that turns ''any'' gun into a bazooka with splash damage. You don't even need to be ''that'' accurate, just hit anywhere ''close.'' While you'll probably overheat on every shot, you won't care as a single shot is all you'll really need to take down any non-boss opponent. Even towers, colossi and the like will cower before your ''sniper bazooka.''

** And then at the end of the game; you get the Vezon character, who has a really powerful weapon.

* {{BIONICLE: Heroes}} is completely and utterly broken from level 1. Masks count as "lives", and if you get enough LEGO pieces, you go into "Hero mode" where you get infinite health, and only goes away at scripted areas in the game. All weapons have unlimited ammo, there are at least two respawning masks (read: lives) around wherever there are enemies (including bosses), all enemies do maximum damage of 1/2 a heart out of five [[IncrediblyLamePun IF]] ([[DontExplainTheJoke big if]]) they hit (also includes bosses), hearts refill whenever an enemy dies or whenever you switch masks (which you can do instantaneously), and you can get Hero mode without leaving the first room of the first level. Convinced?

** In the first game, many players were content to use the very first weapon, the Plasma Cutter, exclusively, to the point where people would go StopHavingFunGuy on people who used other weapons, calling them morons who were playing the game wrong since the Cutter outshined every other weapon by far.

* {{Red Faction}} has the rail gun, a high-power snipe rifle which can shoot through walls. Even without ammo the gun's scope still works, allowing the user to see enemies in different rooms.

* Conker Live and Reloaded, does this with the Hogster, The Grunt's upgrade weapon: It's essentially a grenade launcher witch can fire in three different "modes" being Frag(standard grenade properties, bounces a bit then 'splodes) Impact(explodes as soon as it hits the ground at the cost of reduced range) and Release( Press the fire button after shooting to detonate whenever for increased range), the real gambreaker is the Hogster does insane amount of damage regardless where you are when it explodes, It's blast radius and [[Splash Damage]] is so damaging and so far, If a grenade is even close to you expect to die(especially if you're a lower health class). Now if the Hogster only had the frag mode, this wouldn't be so bad as it takes quite a bit of time to explode so, the faster weaker classes have ample time to get away, but it's Impact and Release mode, make it so where one can detonate them as soon as it lands(in Impact) or while still in the air (for Release), combined with it's large damage you can literally kill anyone you can see on screen, the gun has almost no drawbacks, seeing as how Ammo is Unlimited in this game, you only have to worry about reloading, witch it does have a long reload time(but still not the longest in the game) and a 2-shot clip, you can pretty much kill the entire team with both shots(or at least anyone posing an immediate threat).
** This has pretty much lead to hosts either banning upgrades(the item that grants a Grunt a Hogster) or Banning the Grunt class and leaving upgrades on(for the other less game breaking class.

* StarWarsBattlefront 2: The wookies. They had above average health, access to drones, a grenade launcher. The wookie crossboy is a compination of a sniper rifle and a shotgun! The ablilty to do heavy damage up close and get a spread with this weapon and with charge it increases its power and range. Access to grenade launcher allows a wookie to go against vehicles adding to the insane versatility of the beserker. The only class barring hero that counters a wookie is the shock trooper who's shock gun can do more damage but lower health, reload and charge times means you have to have a really good escape.
** Heroes as well count particlulary the ability force push. Ordinary characters cannot block force powers and even with another hero blocking still doesn't work against force push.

** Except then they just started to make sure they played Execution mode exclusively, so that while someone with a lancer could down a shotgunner at a distance he'd still have to run in to melee range in order to make the kill which would invariably bring him into shotgun range of the rest of the opposing team which were all using shotguns of course. Planting frags as proximity mines also became completely ridiculous very early and even smoke grenades could be used as such to knock you down long enough you'd be shotgunned to gibs before you could get back up.

* A good case could be made for the Support in MondayNightCombat. He has a OneHitKill ability (airstrikes + Shotgun on Assault and weaker) a mobile turret that is ridiculously powerful, and of course there is bunny-hopping to take advantage of laggy hit detection, using a weapon that requies ''literally no aiming''(heal/hurt gun).