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* The Platform/PlayStation2 game ''VideoGame/Transformers2004'' has part of a level set on an aircraft carrier. [[spoiler:Once the control room has been found, the [[ThatsNoMoon whole carrier transforms into Tidal Wave]], a Deception. Well, this ''is'' Franchise/{{Transformers}}, after all.]] If you've seen the show you know what's coming, but if you haven't it'll give you quite a start.
** That may also be considered a ColossusClimb.
* ''VideoGame/TransformersWarForCybertron'' has two such bosses, one an Autobot and one a Decepticon, who each serve as the FinalBoss and stretch over the final two missions of the opposing faction's Campaign Mode.
** In the penultimate mission of the Decepticon campaign, Soundwave reports that he has detected a massive Autobot warship closing on the Decepticon's position. Immediately upon the ship's arrival, Megatron realizes that the ship is actually the alt-mode of Omega Supreme. Megatron, Soundwave, and Breakdown then spend the remainder of that mission trying to avoid getting killed by it, and finally return the favor in the next one.
** In the Autobot campaign, the penultimate mission begins with the three Aerialbots, Silverbolt, Air Raid, and Jetfire, leading an aerial assault against the Decepticon space station. After getting inside the station and fighting their way through dozens upon dozens of Decepticon {{Mooks}} on their way to the control room, they realize that their entire mission has been a ColossusClimb as the station itself is the alt-mode of Trypticon. The remainder of that mission has the three Aerialbots causing Trypticon to crash-land on the surface of Cybertron, where Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Ironhide spend the entirety of the final mission battling him.
* All of the gameplay in the Platform/{{Intellivision}} game ''The Dreadnaught Factor'' is this trope. You fly a small fighter, making several passes over a huge dreadnaught, taking out turrets, exhaust ports, etc, until you blow it up, or it reaches Earth.

** An early mission in ''[[VideoGame/ArmoredCoreVIFiresOfRubicon Fires of Rubicon]]'' pits you against the ''Strider'', a mountain-sized mining vehicle. As the game progresses, you get to fight battleships as well. [[spoiler:Later in the game, a city floating on the ocean is revealed to actually be an interstellar [[TheArk ark]], making those fights in said city an example of this trope. Furthermore, one of the final missions has you riding on said ark while fighting ''multiple'' battleships, with your position in the atmosphere being optimal for using the game's AppliedPhlebotinum to fly indefinetly between them!]]
* ''[[VideoGame/AnotherCenturysEpisode Another Century's Episode 2]]'': One mission pit player against a large submarine, with several parts like [[{{BFG}} main cannons]] and [[MookMaker launching catapult]] can be destroyed (after you get those barrier generator, of cause!).

* ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders: the 2nd Runner'' features two versions, a pursuit of a massive train, and a mission where you take down an entire ''fleet'' of battleships.

* The final mission of ''VideoGame/TheBureauXCOMDeclassified'' takes place aboard the Outsider battleship/space station.

* ''VideoGame/ShadowMaster'' have the level, "Dreadnaught", with you raiding the titular villain's SpaceBase and battling your way across hordes and hordes of enemies to reach his inner headquarters.
* This happens several times in ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'', and fittingly so since the game's about SkyPirates.
* Though you don't actually fight it, and play no direct role in its destruction, Herakles from ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' counts.
* The final area of ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' takes place within Deus after it has grown to roughly the size of a mountain.

* The entirety of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'''s [[DownloadableContent Mothership Zeta]] consists of trashing a starship, killing most of its crew, and then using its WaveMotionGun to fry another mothership. Mostly [[OneManArmy by yourself.]]

* In the ''Franchise/DotHack'' games, Cubia usually ends up like this. In the [[VideoGame/DotHackR1Games R1 games]], he starts out as just "giant monster" sized, but by the fourth and final game he's become so huge he's basically a level in and of himself. In ''VideoGame/DotHackGU'' the entire final dungeon is within Cubia's body, with the FinalBoss being his core essence.
* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' '''opens''' with an escape from an airship. An airship run by mind flayers, that is presently flying over [[{{Hell}} Avernus]] while besieged by Githyankis and their red dragons.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel IV'', the heroes need to raid a battleship [[spoiler:from TheEmpire and destroy the generator emitting a barrier to open the way for the shrine to have the Divine Knight showdown.]]

* ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004'' has AS-Mothership, where attackers have to board the Skaarj Mothership and destroy its reactor core. %%There is also an an Assault level which invokes this trope and plays it right.%%How?%%

* ''VideoGame/{{Breed}}'' have it's final level when you force your way into the Breed's mothership. By this point your weapons are fully upgraded with maximum firepower, and you easily mow down waves and waves of Breed soldiers, OneManArmy-style.
* ''VideoGame/{{Haze}}'s'' entire final level consists of an attack on a giant tracked [[MilitaryMashupMachine Land Carrier]], first outside, then inside and finally onto the deck and into the bridge tower.
* The final level of ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorRisingSun'' has Griffin, the PlayerCharacter, Tanaka, and Bromley, infiltrate, raid, and sabotage a Japanese aircraft carrier.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty1'' has a literal battleship raid, in which your character and Captain Price needed to infiltrate the ''Tirpitz'' to sabotage it.
** Ditto ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'''s first mission, "Crew Expendable".
%%* ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004'' has an Assault level which invokes this trope and plays it right.%%How?%%

* ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004'' has AS-Mothership, where attackers have to board the Skaarj Mothership and destroy its reactor core.

* ''VideoGame/VectorThrust'' boasts a collection of flying superweapons covered in CIWS and air-to-air missile launchers to take down, including the EOS-01 Ziz, a traditional flying wing design and the more radical Pesanta [[DeadlyGas chemical warfare platform]].

* ''VideoGame/DiscoveryFreelancer'' can now have the player be on the receiving end of one of these.
* ''VideoGame/{{Freespace}}'' is famous for having truly enormous warships that utterly dwarf the player's fighter. The crowning example here is the six kilometer long ''Sathanas''-class juggernaut, so huge that humanity's own ''Fenris''-class cruisers can fit in its fighterbay! Generally, unless you're flying a bomber armed with antimatter torpedos (and even then it can take a while), these warships are near-impossible to take down on your own, and your job is to disable their turrets and {{Wave Motion Gun}}s so your own warships can tackle them.
* Any mission in which you had to attack an enemy zeppelin in ''VideoGame/CrimsonSkies'' counts.
* ''VideoGame/IL2Sturmovik'' has both literal (in ''Pacific Fighters'') and figurative examples (attacking large bomber squadrons, etc.).

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' gives us [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100526125551/cnc/images/thumb/8/85/FloatingFortress_RA3_Cine1.jpg/568px-FloatingFortress_RA3_Cine1.jpg this]] little buddy and two campaign missions happening on it. It is notable that the floating fortress itself is indestructible to everything the factions at war can mobilize -- '''not even the ColonyDrop of a space station''' can even scratch it, hence why they board and sabotage it instead. Unfortunately for the Japanese, they left a critical flaw in the fortress' defenses: the [[ShoutOut Wave-Force]] [[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato Cannons]] defending it can use auxiliary targeting data to fire beyond visual range -- which is why the Allies knocked out the radar boats supplying said data first, blinding the cannons long enough to take over the fortress as the gunners didn't have enough time to switch back to normal targeting.

* ''VideoGame/HeartOfTheSwarm''
** There is a Prison Ship Raid, using more or less endless swarms of Zerg to rescue Jim Raynor.
** There is also a twist on the mission type earlier in the game, where Kerrigan implants a Zergling into a Protoss being warped back onto a Protoss ship. After [[ChestBurster hatching]] from her hapless victim, Kerrigan has to [[StealthMission stealthily]] guide the Zergling through the ship to grow and evolve until it is able to spawn a swarm large enough to bring the ship down.

** ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}: Shattered Soldier'': In the first half of Stage 2, you fight [[MilitaryMashupMachine a giant amphibious aircraft]], similar to the motorcycle section of Stage 4 in ''Contra III'', in the second, you raid a [[CoolTrain battle train]]. Also, the Crawler Tank boss at the end of Stage 3.
** ''Neo Contra'': Stage 4 is essentially this. After the the first part when the Battleship Ro was destroyed, the players jump down from Mr. Heli-Robo, which is also about to explode, onto the Helicarrier. The players must destroy all enemy targets while evading the missiles whom is attacking the players. After destroying the last target on the Helicarrier, the two players, after facing the [[TalkingAnimal Animal Contra]], jump down onto the missiles, and fight the TIM Gunboat on the sea.

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** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' does this in two of the Gummi Ship levels and, again, the FinalBoss. The first Gummi Ship version centers around a flying Heartless pirate-ship... blasting off its huge arsenal of different cannons and such takes up a lot of time, and towards the end, you have a chance at destroying it entirely - you don't HAVE to, but it's worth a buttload of points. Then there's ''Assault of the Dreadnaught'', where you take on an even bigger Nobody ship, even flying inside it and blasting at the core.

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** And parodied in the Konami shooter ''VideoGame/{{Parodius}}'' - half an entire level based around a battleship with giant Moai heads wearing sunglasses (and named, in the English language versions anyway, "Captain Kebab").

** Don't forget her twin counterpart battleship, [[spoiler: Fire Fossil]].

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[[folder:Turn Based Strategy]]
* ''VideoGame/AdvanceWarsDaysOfRuin'' has an entire mission dedicated to this, [[spoiler: in which your ''army'' fights the opponent's ''army'' on the '''wing''' of the gargantuan ''Great Owl.'' [[RuleOfCool While it's in flight.]]]]

* The final battle of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' takes place on the [[BigBad Fell Dragon Grima's]] ''back''. The part you actually damage is a combination of his head and [[spoiler: his future self possessing an alternate version of the PlayerCharacter. It's complicated.]]

-->'''Largo''': Up on the Marmota's deck, eh? Nice spot for a showdown.

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* The USS Reagan Seabase level in ''VideoGame/EndWar'' has the defending faction starting out on the flight deck of a moored aircraft carrier. There are only three bridges to access the deck with and it's significantly higher than the surrounding area, making artillery barrages aimed at the low ground extremely devastating with no danger of return fire due to the high ground concealing them from sight. The attacking faction practically has no choice but to AttackAttackAttack
* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' gives us [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100526125551/cnc/images/thumb/8/85/FloatingFortress_RA3_Cine1.jpg/568px-FloatingFortress_RA3_Cine1.jpg this]] little buddy and two campaign missions happening on it. It is notable that the floating fortress itself is indestructible to everything the factions at war can mobilize - '''not even the ColonyDrop of a space station''' can even scratch it, hence why they board and sabotage it instead. Unfortunately for the Japanese, they left a critical flaw in the fortress' defenses: the [[ShoutOut Wave-Force]] [[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato Cannons]] defending it can use auxiliary targeting data to fire beyond visual range - which is why the Allies knocked out the radar boats supplying said data first, blinding the cannons long enough to take over the fortress as the gunners didn't have enough time to switch back to normal targeting.

** {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/HardCorpsUprising'' thanks to Creator/DaisukeIshiwatari. To explain it in detail would spoil the game because it's the final level, but for the sake of awesomeness, look below at your own risk. [[spoiler: You start out riding on motorcycles, dodging the ship's lasers. Once all enemies are beaten, you fly off a ramp '''and manage to somehow land back on the ship itself''' (emphasis on somehow). Even then, you must now make it through enemies while dodging more lasers that destroy the areas it touches (a la [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes Final Fortress]]). THEN, sections of the ship start coming down to crush you, and while doing so you must dodge more lasers while hopping on rockets to reach the ship's engine. After destroying the engine, you take an elevator all the way up to the front of the ship, where you fight Tiberius. After beating him once, he transforms into a huge monster that, when beaten, crushes a hole inside of the ship, causing you to go careening to your doom, until your helicopter saves you. While this is happening, the destruction you caused earlier has caused the ship to collapse, and then you find out that the fight is not over, as Tiberius suddenly grows wings and knocks you off of your helicopter. You must now fight Tiberius one last time on the '''FALLING DEBRIS OF THE SHIP YOU JUST DESTROYED'''.]]

** An early mission in ''[[VideoGame/ArmoredCoreVIFiresOfRubicon Fires of Rubicon]]'' pits you against the ''Strider'', a mountain-sized mining vehicle.

* ''VideoGame/{{Gorf}}'', from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfVideoGames, is the TropeMaker, with the final level before the game levels up and resets involves a confrontation with the enemy flagship.

* The UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem game ''Bomber Raid'' did this for all its bosses.

*  In ''Avenger'' for the UsefulNotes/PCEngine, Mission 1 includes a short section where you fly over a battleship and take out its turrets. This pretty much ends when the HumongousMecha boss detaches itself from the ship.

* The UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 game ''VideoGame/Transformers2004'' has part of a level set on an aircraft carrier. [[spoiler:Once the control room has been found, the [[ThatsNoMoon whole carrier transforms into Tidal Wave]], a Deception. Well, this ''is'' Franchise/{{Transformers}}, after all.]] If you've seen the show you know what's coming, but if you haven't it'll give you quite a start.

* All of the gameplay in the UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}} game ''The Dreadnaught Factor'' is this trope. You fly a small fighter, making several passes over a huge dreadnaught, taking out turrets, exhaust ports, etc, until you blow it up, or it reaches Earth.

In scrolling shooters, the path will usually loop around the boss, past various gun turrets, {{Mook Maker}}s and other dangers, before leading to the core, command centre or similar. The boss might at first be [[BackgroundBoss seen in the background]], before flying on-screen.

* From the beginning of the series, ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' has numerous large aircraft and/or airships bristling with weaponry to take down.

** ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'' has the low orbital aircraft, ''Arkbird'', as well as the ''Scinfaxi'' and ''Hrimfaxi'' submarines, as they are (eventually) the focus of their respective levels; each is also an aircraft carrier with separately targetable anti-aircraft weapons, and [[ThatOneLevel burst missiles that will kill you unless your altitude is at 5,000 feet or higher]]. It also has the SOLG, a KillSat capable of launching nukes from above.

This type of Boss is usually a DamageSpongeBoss and a MarathonBoss; defeating it is rarely easy.

* ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'''s fourth zerg mission has Kerrigan boarding a Terran science vessel to steal information; it's amazingly huge, considering the unit's actual scale in the game. As with all installation maps, it's a heavily scripted no-base mission with limited units.

** World 6-2 (Security Grid) [[Franchise/{{Halo}} The Covenant]] have breached the security wing of the [[VideoGame/StarFox Great Fox]]. They have activated the defense systems in that wing. Mario and crew must fight off the Covenant and disengage the defense systems in order to restore control of the Great Fox to the Star Fox team.

* ''VideoGame/StarFox'':

** ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'' has the Arsenal Birds ''Liberty'' and ''Justice'', which are ''kilometer-wide'' AttackDrones that [[AirborneAircraftCarrier carry 80 smaller drones]].

** ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'' has the Arsenal Birds ''Liberty'' and''Justice'', which are ''kilometer-wide'' AttackDrones that [[AirborneAircraftCarrier carry 80 smaller drones]].

** ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'' has the low orbital aircraft, ''Arkbird'', as well as the ''Scinfaxi'' and ''Hrimfaxi'' submarines, as they are (eventually) the focus of their respective levels; each is also an aircraft carrier with separately targetable anti-aircraft weapons, and [[ThatOneLevel burst missiles that will kill you unless your altitude is at 5,000 feet or higher]].

** ''VideoGame/AceCombat2'' had the XB-10 "Big Bad Mama," a large bomber similar to the Hresvelgr.
** In ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'' has the low orbital aircraft, ''Arkbird'', as well as the, ''Scinfaxi'' and ''Hrimfaxi'' submarines, as they are (eventually) the focus of their respective levels; each is also an aircraft carrier with separately targetable anti-aircraft weapons, and [[ThatOneLevel burst missiles that will kill you unless your altitude is at 5,000 feet or higher]].
** ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar'' has the prototype [[AirborneAircraftCarrier Heavy Command Cruiser]] ''Hresvelgr'',
** ''VideoGame/AceCombatXSkiesOfDeception'' has the aerial warship ''Gleipnir'',
** ''VideoGame/AceCombat6FiresOfLiberation'' has the ''Aigaion'', a massive AirborneAircraftCarrier that not only houses the enemy AcePilot squad, Strigon team, but is also armed with powerful long range Nimbus cruise missiles.