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* ''BattlefieldSeries'' trademarked "Commo Rose" featured in {{Battlefield 2}} and {{Battlefield 2142}}.

* ''SaintsRow'' uses a type 2 for both guns and healing items.

* ''{{Turok}} 2'' has two separate versions. One that consists of two rings, one for each activation button, and a massive ring that spins on one side of the screen, like the first game.

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* ''{{Turok}} 2'' has two separate versions. One that consists of two rings, one for each activation button, and a massive ring that spins on one side of the screen.

* First ''ArcTheLad'' had this in battles.

A practical upshot of this format is that it can hide the fact that not all options are yet available to the player, since removing one option will not [[InterfaceSpoiler leave an empty space behind]]. The 2nd has the advantage of being quicker than a traditional menu, sometimes quick enough to be accessed without having to pause the actual gameplay in progress.

A practical upshot of this format is that it can hide the fact that not all options are yet available to the player, since removing one option will not [[InterfaceSpoiler leave an empty space behind]]. The 2nd has the advantage of being quick (though still slower than dedicated keys on a keyboard) enough to be used during gameplay.

* While the default interface in WorldOfWarcraft doesn't have this feature, a popular add-on, [[http://www.go-hero.net/opie/ OPie]] allows it to be applied in-game. It is a great tool to utilize sparsely used skills, items, macros, abilities, and other things while minimizing interface clutter.

* ''SecondLife'' has a few of those, but they are cranky.

* ''WarioWare: Twisted!'', with the variation that since the game cartridge featured a tilt sensor, you had to tilt the GBA ''itself'' to cycle through them.

A practical upshot of this format is that it can hide the fact that not all options are yet available to the player, since removing one option will not [[InterfaceSpoiler leave an empty space behind]].

* ''TempleOfElementalEvil'' uses a radial menu that was basically a multi-tiered ring menu for each category, so "attack" has attack modes (such as the option to deal non lethal damage) and attack types (such as trip and full attack) under it.

* ''TheLegendOfZelda: {{Twilight Princess}}'''s used this for Link's inventory items specifically to avoid an InterfaceSpoiler -- although it still provided a separate 'Quest Status' screen with a traditional layout.

* ''OdinSphere'' uses separate rings for each inventory pouch in the player's posession.

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[[caption-width-right:330:A type 2 menu.]]

!! Type 2 - point to select

# Using the directional pad to rotate the menu like a wheel, with the item in the center being the one highlighted for use.

* ''{{Persona 3}}'''s battle menu, although it is displayed as an arc instead of a complete ring.
* ''SecretOfEvermore'', which was built using the Mana game engine, used a Type 1 ring menu.

* ''{{Mass Effect}}'''s abilities for you and your team are displayed like this.

* ''{{Alien Soldier}}'''s ring menu [[RealTimeWithPause doesn't pause the game]], so be quick before you get swarmed.

* ''MarioAndLuigi: Super Star Saga''
* ''TheLegendOfZelda: {{Twilight Princess}}'''s used a type 1 menu for Link's inventory items specifically to avoid an InterfaceSpoiler -- although it still provided a traditional 'Quest Status' screen seprately.
* ''OdinSphere'' uses a type 1 menu, with separate rings for each pouch in the player's posession.
* ''{{Persona 3}}'''s battle menu.

* Common in later LucasArts Adventure Games.
* ''MonkeyIsland 3'', where the menu appeared as a coin.
* ''Noctropolis''
* ''TheSims''

* ''TheLegendOfZelda: {{Twilight Princess}}'''s inventory screen has items arranged in a circle. The 'Quest Status' screen uses a more traditional layout.
* In ''{{Drakengard}}'', you choose your weapon from a ring of sharp objects.
* ''SecretOfMana'', if not the UrExample, is likely the TropeMaker; its ring menu system is a hallmark of almost every game in the series.
* ''SecretOfEvermore'', being built on the Mana game engine, used this as well.

* In the ''RatchetAndClank'' games, Ratchet's quick-select weapons menu and Clank's action menu are both a Type 2 menu; in later games the player is allowed to configure two or more 'pages' of quick-select menu.
* Isometric GameBoyAdvance action game ''Scurge: Hive'' has one of these for weapon type selection.
* ''{{Hitman}}: Blood Money'' does this.

* The three levels of magic in ''BulletWitch'' are displayed in a ring setup. The size of the ring is inversely proportionate to the power of the magic you select.

* ''WarioWare: Twisted!'' had all of the menu items in a big circle, so as you twisted the GBA (not yourself) it would cycle through them.
* ''{{Persona 3}}'''s battle menu.

* TruthInTelevision: Rotary phones.

* ''PhantomBrave'' uses a ring menu for character creation. This gets a little annoying as you always start at the same spot in the ring each time and you eventually get enough generic character classes for ''two'' rings.
* ''{{Prototype}}'' features this as the primary way to switch abilities, though there is also a quick select feature for when you're in a hurry.
* ''{{Alien Soldier}}'''s ring menu doesn't [[RealTimeWithPause pause]] the game, so be quick before you get swarmed.

* ''ResistanceFallOfMan'' and ''Resistance 2'' both use the second type.
* The A-Trans menu in ''MegamanZXAdvent'' is Type B in the Pause screen, and Type A when you access it via a preset button.
* ''ABoyAndHisBlob'' for Wii used the second type for its jellybean menu.
* The Wii versions of ''TraumaCenter'' use the second type. The hand and bandage tools are removed (the Bandages are only used at the end of an operation, anyways) so that there are an even 8-points for directional tool switching. It takes a bit of getting used to, but it's probably easier to play the game this way than on the DS.
* {{Bioshock}} uses a type 2 for selecting both weapons and plasmids.
* ''SaintsRow'' uses a type 2 for both guns and healing items.
* ''AmericasArmy 3'' uses a type 2.
* ''OdinSphere'' uses a type 1 menu, with separate rings for each pouch in the player's posession.

A Ring Menu (also known as a PieMenu) is an [[VideoGameInterfaceElements interface element]] where a list of possible actions are displayed in a ring or circle, often around a character.

This also applies if the options are displayed in a 3D ring and rotated to the front and back; when inventory screens are done like this, it may overlap with {{Spinventory}}.

* ''TheLegendOfZelda: {{Twilight Princess}}'''s inventory screen has items arranged in a circle.

* ''SecretOfMana'' does this.
** ''SecretOfEvermore'' did this as well.
** Actually, all the ''Mana'' games since ''SecretOfMana'' have done this. It's become a trademark of the series.
* ''{{Tomb Raider}}''s ''1'', ''2'', ''3'', and Anniversary.
* In the ''RatchetAndClank'' games, Ratchet's quick-select weapons menu and Clank's action menu are pretty much just a ring of circles.

* Truth in television: Rotary phones.