History Main / EverythingIsSmashableArea

* ''NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'' has the room where you fight Matt Helms. In it, almost literally the only things you can't break are the floors and the walls.

* The bamboo forest in the second part of the fight against General Tsao in ''[[SlyCooper Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves]]''.

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* There's a game-mode in ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Unleashed'' where you get points for...well...destroying a major city. Certain buildings are worth more points than others and famous landmarks (e.g., the Tokyo Tower) are worth the most points.
* More or less the entire point of ''SpaceInvaders Get Even'': Every destroyed building and enemy increases your timer by varying amounts, which also doubles as your lifebar. As might be expected, abducting cows and visiting Stonehenges (yes, it's a plural, for whatever reason there's one in pretty much single level) increase it the most.
* Many games that advertise themselves as featuring destructible scenery will have a few of these and make sure they're prominently featured in the trailer. The rest of the game? [[NeverTrustATrailer Not so much.]]
* The Japanese game ''Hakaioh - King of Crusher'' is based on this trope. Your character usually has violent rampages in which he smashes everything in the room, brought on by some kind of a weird talking flying demonic beetle with bat wings. Taken UpToEleven in later levels when the main character is turned into a werewolf of some kind, a dinosaur, a Godzilla expy and finally a dragon, just so you can destroy bigger stuff.
* Non-video-game-example: the mall in ''Film/{{Zombieland}}''.
* The bamboo forest in the second part of the fight against General Tsao in ''[[SlyCooper Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves]]''.
* ''NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'' has the room where you fight Matt Helms. In it, almost literally the only things you can't break are the floors and the walls.
* Later on in the game, in ''[[SeriousSam Serious Sam III BFE]]'', you go through some Egyptian ruins where all the pillars, archways and most of the walls are destructable. Very fun with [[StuffBlowingUp crates full of infinite rocket launcher ammo and C4.]]
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'': Slice and dice your way to victory with an AbsurdlySharpBlade.
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* The Barrel Full of Barrels in ''KingdomOfLoathing''.
* There's a game-mode in ''Videogame/GodzillaUnleashed'' where you get points for...well...destroying a major city. Certain buildings are worth more points than others and famous landmarks (e.g., the Tokyo Tower) are worth the most points.
* ''Videogame/Left4Dead2'''s ''Swamp Fever'' had a level where the survivors must make their way across a rickety, highly destructable bridge. The structure is slowly chipped away at by gunfire and zombie attacks, and [[InfernalRetaliation god help you]] if you throw a molotv. Lots of [[VideogameCrueltyPotential fun]] on Versus on the zombie team.
* ''BlastCorps'' was made of this, except for the trees.
* ''HalfLife'' has a few rooms filled with nothing but smashable crates.
** ''HalfLife 2: [[EpisodicGame Episode 1]]'' features a duel between Gordon Freeman and a Combine gunship in a large, rickety wooden building which is slowly reduced to rubble by surface-to-air missiles and heavy machine-gun fire. The fight gets progressively more difficult as available cover is destroyed.
*** Or easier depending on your play style. After all, if a part of the roof covers you from the gunship's fire, it covers the gunship from your fire too. Opening up more of the roof can tip the advantage to the player, as your rocket launcher requires a few seconds of uninterrupted line of sight to hit as the gunship circles past you, while the gunship's cannon hits almost instantly.
* The ''VideoGame/BaldursGateDarkAlliance'' games were pretty heavy offenders.
* The main way of getting studs in almost every LegoAdaptationGame.
** And the best way of handling puzzles. When in doubt, attack the scenery.
* The storehouse just outside of Hyrule Castle Town in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', during the parts of the game when Link is a child. An NPC in the room hangs a lampshade on it by mentioning how Link can "let off some steam" by destroying the jars.
** The final boss arena is this for the final boss- you can maneuver him into smashing the various bits of rubble around, releasing item pickups for you. Handy.
* One of the castle levels in ''VideoGame/WarioLand II'' consists of you smashing through a bunch of walls.
* This sort of happens in ''KingdomHearts II''. There's a minigame wherein you have a room full of boxes to smash, but you have to be strategic about it in order to get any sort of reward.

* ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim 2'' had the level "Lorenzen's Soil", where Jim's gun needed to be used to shoot a path through dirt.
* ''{{Red Faction}}'' and ''Red Faction 2'' live on this trope, such that it shocks you when you finally come across a surface that you can't blast your way through. ''Red Faction: Guerrilla'' ups the ante even further by setting the game on an Everything Is Smashable ''Planet.''

* Most of ''TheForceUnleashed'' is like this, until the DisappointingLastLevel. The Kashyyyk prologue is especially notable, though, crammed full of trees you can cut down with your lightsaber and throw around with the force, and grass that ripples as you blow things over it. Also [[VideogameCrueltyPotential Wookiee-tossing]].

* The "Mayhem Missions" in ''CityOfVillains''.
* Every level in the 2009 ''[[GhostbustersTheVideoGame Ghostbusters]]'' video game. But especially the hotel level, which is a ContinuityNod to the movie, where they destroyed goddamn EVERYTHING in a hotel.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'' series of games allows you and your ravenous horde of gremlins to smash just about any and every inanimate object aside from trees, bushes and rocks. In fact, doing so is often necessary to find treasure. Plus commanding a ravenous horde of gremlins to tear apart a tranquil village including burning down the houses is immensely entertaining.

* There's a game-mode in ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}: Unleashed'' where you get points for...well...destroying a major city. Certain buildings are worth more points than others and famous landmarks (e.g., the Tokyo Tower) are worth the most points.
* ''Left4Dead'' 2's ''Swamp Fever'' had a level where the survivors must make their way across a rickety, highly destructable bridge. The structure is slowly chipped away at by gunfire and zombie attacks, and [[InfernalRetaliation god help you]] if you throw a molotv. Lots of [[VideogameCrueltyPotential fun]] on Versus on the zombie team.

** Psh, TheBluesBrothers did it 20 years ago. With cars.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'': Slice and dice your way to victory with a {{BFS}}/AbsurdlySharpBlade.

* There's a game-mode in ''{{Godzilla}}: Unleashed'' where you get points for...well...destroying a major city. Certain buildings are worth more points than others and famous landmarks (e.g., the Tokyo Tower) are worth the most points.

See also: RewardingVandalism, EverythingBreaks.

* The BaldursGate: Dark Alliance games were pretty heavy offenders.

* Most of ''TheForceUnleashed'' is like this, until DisappointingLastLevel sets in for the final level. The Kashyyyk prologue is especially notable, though, crammed full of trees you can cut down with your lightsaber and throw around with the force, and grass that ripples as you blow things over it. Also [[VideogameCrueltyPotential Wookiee-tossing]].

* Non-video-game-example: the mall in ''Film/{{Zombieland}}.

* Every level in the [[GhostbustersTheVideoGame Ghostbusters]] video game. But especially the hotel level, which is a ContinuityNod to the movie, where they destroyed goddamn EVERYTHING in a hotel.

* The ''{{Overlord}}'' series of games allows you and your ravenous horde of gremlins to smash just about any and every inanimate object aside from trees, bushes and rocks. In fact, doing so is often necessary to find treasure. Plus commanding a ravenous horde of gremlins to tear apart a tranquil village including burning down the houses is immensely entertaining.
* NoMoreHeroes [[NoMoreHeroesDesperateStruggle Desperate Struggle]] has the room where you fight Matt Helms. In it, almost literally the only things you can't break are the floors and the walls.
* Later on in the game, in [[SeriousSam Serious Sam III BFE]], you go through some Egyptian ruins where all the pillars, archways and most of the walls are destructable. Very fun with [[StuffBlowingUp crates full of infinite rocket launcher ammo and C4.]]

* This was the entire point of classic arcade game ''Rampage''.

* Every level in the {{Ghostbusters}} video game. But especially the hotel level, which is a ContinuityNod to the movie, where they destroyed goddamn EVERYTHING in a hotel.

* The storehouse just outside of Hyrule Castle Town in ''TheLegendOfZelda: Ocarina of Time'', during the parts of the game when Link is a child. An NPC in the room hangs a lampshade on it by mentioning how Link can "let off some steam" by destroying the jars.

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* The Japanese game ''Hakaioh - King of Crusher'' is based on this trope. Your character usually has violent rampages in which he smashes everything in the room.

* Most of ''TheForceUnleashed'' is like this, until XenSyndrome sets in for the final level. The Kashyyyk prologue is especially notable, though, crammed full of trees you can cut down with your lightsaber and throw around with the force, and grass that ripples as you blow things over it. Also [[VideogameCrueltyPotential Wookiee-tossing]].

* One of the castle levels in ''VideoGame/WarioLand II'' consists of you smashing through a bunch of walls. This is either the most awesome thing ever or a ScrappyLevel. YourMileageMayVary.

* The main way of getting studs in every LegoCrossoverGame ever.

* ''EarthwormJim 2'' had the level "Lorenzen's Soil", where Jim's gun needed to be used to shoot a path through dirt.

* The BaldursGate: Dark Alliance games were pretty heavy offenders, so much so that my battle cry was simply "break stuff!!!!"
** Mine, too! I don't know you, do I?

* One of the castle levels in ''WarioLand II'' consists of you smashing through a bunch of walls. This is either the most awesome thing ever or a ScrappyLevel. YourMileageMayVary.

* ''BlastCorps'' was made of this.

* Non-video-game-example: the mall in ZombieLand.

* The ''{Overlord}'' series of games allows you and your ravenous horde of gremlins to smash just about any and every inanimate object aside from trees, bushes and rocks. In fact, doing so is often necessary to find treasure. Plus commanding a ravenous horde of gremlins to tear apart a tranquil village including burning down the houses is immensely entertaining.

* ''Left4Dead'' 2's ''Swamp Fever'' had a level where the survivors must make their way across a rickety, highly destructable bridge. The structure is slowly chipped away at by gunfire and zombie attacks, and [[InfernalRetaliation god help you]] if you throw a molotv. Lots of [[VideogameCrueltyPotential]] on Versus on the zombie team.

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