History StormingTheCastle / VideoGames

** Yet again, Hyrule Castle must be stormed by Link at a certain point in "VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom", with the castle now suspended in the air. While the player can reach and explore it at any time after the tutorial, the game will beckon the player to fully explore the castle only after the completion of mandatory story quests.

* OncePerEpisode in the ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'' series, where the protagonist(s) tear through clan headquarters/some other tall building to reach the BigBad before their plans come to fruition.

* OncePerEpisode in the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series, where the protagonist(s) tear through clan headquarters/some other tall building to reach the BigBad before their plans come to fruition.

** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'', Altaïr ibn La-Ahad and several other Assassins storm [[spoiler:Masyaf]] after learning that [[spoiler:Al Mualim]] is a member of the Templars.

** Hyrule Castle must be stormed by Link toward the finale of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', which now serves as the prison for [[FinalBoss Calamity Ganon.]] What makes this unique is that, thanks to the game's extreme open-world design, you can try to pull this off at literally any point you desire after the tutorial section on the Great Plateau. Even if you ''don't'' plan to try and beat the game that quickly, there are several quests that encourage you to briefly sneak into the place a bit early just to collect the valuable treasures there.

* The entirety of ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis'' has [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction VSSE agent]] [[OneManArmy Richard Miller]] storming [[BigBad Sherudo Garo]]'s castle in order to save [[DistressedDamsel Rachel MacPherson]].

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' consists largely of storming castles with other players in the form of instance dungeons. Not all of these are actual castles or fortresses, but most are home base to some kind of bad guy.

** In the second to last level of ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare'', the joint SAS and USMC forces storm a hijacked Russian nuclear missile silo.
** In the penultimate level of ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'', [[spoiler:Price and Soap attack Hotel Bravo, the cliffside base of corrupt US General Shepherd]].
*** A few missions earlier, in ''Whiskey Hotel'', you have to storm the occupied [[spoiler:White House]], and light signal flares on the roof before the Air Force bombs the area to Hell.

* Done in ''VideoGame/MountAndBlade''. You can either besiege a castle for thirty days and wait for the defenders to starve out, or you can simply charge the walls and take it for yourself.
** Notable in that it is more or less the ''only'' way to take castles, unless you enjoy being a sadist. Yes, they provide you with the siege option, but by the time the 30 days are up, your army will be either starved or deserting (or starved AND deserting). Apparently, recruits in the world of Mount&Blade get exceptionally depressed at being told to sit down and peacefully wait out a siege from a safe distance. It's also worth noting that sieging simply ''[[GameBreakingBug does not work]]'' -- even after 30 days of tedium the enemy will STILL continue to thumb their noses at your demand that they surrender. So get over those walls, lad!

* All three acts of ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' end with the title character StormingTheCastle.

* In the penultimate level of ''[[VideoGame/ModernWarfare2 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2]]'', [[spoiler:Price and Soap attack Hotel Bravo, the cliffside base of corrupt US General Shepherd]].
** A few missions earlier, in ''Whiskey Hotel'', you have to storm the occupied [[spoiler: White House]], and light signal flares on the roof before the Air Force bombs the area to Hell.
** Played completely straight where Task Force 141 storms an actual Russian Castle used as a gulag.
** In the second to last level of the first game, the joint SAS and USMC forces storm a hijacked Russian nuclear missile silo.
** The finale in ''Modern Warfare 3'' involves [[spoiler:Price and Yuri assaulting Makarov's forces in a heavily defended Arabian hotel. While wearing [[ImplacableMan Juggernaut armor]].]] Previously, however, a literal StormingTheCastle mission occurs in the fifteenth mission Stronghold to learn the location of Makarov.

** The older turn based game, ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000ChaosGate'', has the player assaulting several chaos fortresses. The last one is located in the [[AnotherDimension Eye of Terror]].
* In ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'', the final mission of Act III, titled "By Any Means Necessary", has [[VigilanteMan Aiden Pierce]] lead a [[OneManArmy one-man assault]] on the Rossi-Fremont apartments, the base of operations for the [[GangBangers Black Viceroys]] gang, in order to download its servers full of blackmail on the citizens of Chicago. Interestingly, Aiden's assault on the apartment complex is, like the historical examples of this trope, actually an act of last resort. The servers cannot be hacked from the outside, and every other plan attempted by Aiden had failed, leaving this trope as the only option. [[spoiler: The video of the Merlaut Hotel that Damien wanted was never actually completely downloaded by the Viceroys, making the assault on the complex [[ShaggyDogStory unnecessary]].]]