History Main / TheWarSequence

If you're lucky, there may be a near-equal force on your side as well, making it more of a true battle and averting OneManArmy at the same time. You'll probably be expected to [[ItsUpToYou carry the weight of the battle on your own]], though... However, a character who beats a War Sequence without backup usually qualifies as a OneManArmy. COnservationOfNinjutsu usually means that the player has a relatively easy time wiping out the mooks. If not, it can easily become ThatOneLevel.

If you're lucky, there may be a near-equal force on your side as well, making it more of a true battle and averting OneManArmy at the same time. You'll probably be expected to [[ItsUpToYou carry the weight of the battle on your own]], though... However, a character who beats a War Sequence without backup usually qualifies as a OneManArmy.

[[caption-width-right:350:And you get to fight each and every last one of them.[[note]] Except not the two Behemoths, thanks to hardware limitations, but you do still get to kill an even 1000 of the mooks[[/note]]]]

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' has two of these. "The Paleto Score" has the entire police department, NOOSE teams, and the army combating a bank robbery and "The Third Way" has all three protagonists taking down every crooked FIB agent and Merryweather soldier sent after them, as well pulling an all-out massive assassination campaign against every main rival and enemy they have immediately afterwards.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' has two of these. "The Paleto Score" has the entire police department, NOOSE teams, and the army combating a bank robbery and "The Third Way" has all three protagonists taking down every crooked FIB agent and Merryweather soldier sent after them.

** The official Doom games have a couple slaughter maps as well, the most infamous being Final Doom's Go 2 It, a secret stage with 200+ enemies, including 19 enemy-reviving Arch-Viles and 13 Cyberdemons.

* ''Videogame/AIWarFleetCommand:'' AI fleets are invariably bigger than yours, it's just a matter of where and when they might rush in, and to ensure it can be in a context you can manage. One specific and very regular example is Cross-Planet Attacks, where AI planets ''all'' over the galaxy have their mobile defenders pack their bags, join the Mobile forces, and (usually) head for your territory en masse. Later in the game these can often outside your fleet five times over, and it's better to confront them at a properly defended chokepoint if you don't want them to roll you. It gets especially bad if the Hunter fleet decides now is the time to rush all in exactly at the worst place possible and make it five times worse. And another example is the frequent and heavy Exogalactic Strikes you will get if you do basically ''anything'' with the Fallen Spire. The AI '''utterly despises''' the Spire and will overreact immediately to any movements, ensuring you get a good feed of gigantic hordes knocking on your door. But then again, you have Spire vessels and installations, which are pretty good at slicing hordes up with BeamSpam.

[[caption-width-right:350:And you get to fight each and every last one of them.[[note]] Except not really, thanks to hardware limitations[[/note]]]]

* ''Videogame/AIWarFleetCommand:'' AI fleets are invariably bigger than yours, it's just a matter of where and when they might rush in, and to ensure it can be in a context you can manage. One specific and very regular example is Cross-Planet Attacks, where AI planets ''all'' over the galaxy have their mobile defenders pack their bags, join the Mobile forces, and (usually) head for your territory en masse. Later in the game these can often outside your fleet five times over, and it's better to confront them at a properly defended chokepoint if you don't want them to roll you. It gets especially bad if the Hunter fleet decides now is the time to rush all in exactly at the worst place possible and make it five times worse.

** From ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'': The battle outside the array in the level "The Covenant". It is the final major battle in the human-Covenant war, and the Covenant throw everything they have left at you, with the crew of ''Forward Unto Dawn'' doing likewise. Appropriately, it has more total forces and more variety of vehicles than virtually any other battle in the series. The music [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S68GmenFk2g "One Final Effort"]] plays, the battle begins, and then the Covenant send '''[[HolyShitQuotient two]]''' [[SpiderTank scarabs]] against you. And yes, it's the BestLevelEver.

Stage of a game where the enemies begin to come out in [[MultiMookMelee huge droves]], typically near the climax. May be part of a ZergRush. Increasingly common as systems have become more powerful, as it requires large amounts of sprites or polygons on screen at once. The War Sequence can cause a kind of FakeDifficulty, but [[RuleOfCool looks]] [[HolyShitQuotient impressive]] and is [[RuleOfFun so fun to beat]] (even if it's not required you beat ''everyone'') that that's overlooked.

* One of the most famous examples is the above-pictured segment from ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. The whole scene plays something like this: Sora is left to face a thousand Heartless (there's even an enemies-killed counter during this sequence starting at 0 that hit ''1000''), while Donald and Goofy are busy slaying the rest. The two types of Heartless present each have a different [[ActionCommand reaction command]]. Armored Knights enable the "Rising Sun" reaction command which lets you swoop around and wreck anything you crash through. Surveillance Robots can be seized with "Snag" and enable "Sparkle Ray", [[WaveMotionGun a powerful laser that Sora swings around to take out multiple other Heartless in one go]]. This means you can win the battle in the span of minutes by repeatedly hitting the triangle button, mopping up the final mooks without them, and while looking absolutely badass.

* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' has the Goblin Army, a hundred-strong army of goblins with varying professions. The number increases for every person playing when one strikes. To solidify the point that this is going to take a while, they drop weapons that actually help you in taking them down easily.
** Hard mode ups the ante with a horde of pirates. If you aren't prepared by the time they invade, a battle with them can easily drag out for hours.

* One of the most famous examples is the above-pictured segment from ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. The whole scene plays something like this: Sora is left to face literally ''a thousand'' Heartless, while Donald and Goofy are busy slaying the rest. Thankfully, the game's [[ActionCommand reaction commands]] are available here, which let you kill every single one in about five minutes while looking absolutely badass.
** Summary: you fight two types of Heartless, each with different reaction commands. First are the Armored Knights, whose reaction command is "Rising Sun", an attack which lets you swoop around and wreck anything you crash through. Second are the Surveillance Robots, which you seize with "Snag", then use "Sparkle Ray", [[WaveMotionGun a powerful laser that Sora swings around to take out multiple other Heartless in one go]]. This means you can win the battle easily by repeatedly hitting the triangle button, then using normal attacks to finish up the last few mooks.
** To be clear, there is actually a counter for this sequence that starts at 0. As you get to slaying, the counter keeps track of ''every single Heartless you have killed''. By the time you're done, the counter has reached ''1000''.
** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' mimics the scenario from ''II'' in the final world of the game, with Sora, Donald, and Goofy fighting not only Heartless but Unversed and Nobodies as well--and set to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT3GSa2lMFI the exact same music track]]. It's finished off with them summoning the train from [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Big Thunder Mountain Railroad]] to fly around and shoot the enemies with a cannon, knocking out countless in seconds.

[[caption-width-right:350:And you get to fight each and every last one of them.[[note]] Execpt not really, thanks to hardware limitations[[/note]]]]

** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' mimics the scenario from ''II'' in the final world of the game, with Sora, Donald, and Goofy fighting not only Heartless but Unversed and Nobodies as well. It's finished off with them summoning the train from [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Big Thunder Mountain Railroad]] to fly around and shoot the enemies with a cannon, knocking out countless in seconds.

* ''VideoGame/LordOfTheRingsReturnOfTheKing'' has the Battle of Pelennor Fields. Play as Aragorn, Legolas or Gimli as you charge headfirst into over a hundred enemies at a time battling Rohirrim. Soon after the level begins, the Mumakil (elephants) and The Witch King swoop in to kill Eowyn and Merry, and you need to kill both. Oh, did I mention, the entire time The Fellowship Fanfare is blasting in the background...tell this troper that isn't epic.

[[caption-width-right:350:And you get to fight each and every last one of them.]]

* The TropeMaker is the above-pictured segment from ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. The whole scene plays something like this: Sora is left to face literally ''a thousand'' Heartless, while Donald and Goofy are busy slaying the rest. Thankfully, the game's [[ActionCommand reaction commands]] are available here, which let you kill every single one in about five minutes while looking absolutely badass.

Stage of a game where the enemies begin to come out in [[MultiMookMelee huge droves]], typically near the climax. May be part of a ZergRush. Increasingly common as systems have become more powerful, as it requires large amounts of sprites or polygons on screen at once. The War Sequence can cause a kind of FakeDifficulty, but [[RuleOfCool looks]] [[{{HSQ}} impressive]] and is [[RuleOfFun so fun to beat]] (even if it's not required you beat ''everyone'') that that's overlooked.

These are likely to be [[BestLevelEver the best levels ever.]]

** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' mimics the scenario from ''II'' in the final world of the game, with Sora, Donald, and Goofy fighting not only Heartless but Unversed and Nobodies as well. It's finished off with them summoning the train from [[DisneyThemeParks Big Thunder Mountain Railroad]] to fly around and shoot the enemies with a cannon, knocking out countless in seconds.

** ''[[VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney Blood Money]]'' climaxes with 47 waking up at his own funeral and wasting a few dozen FBI agents ([[MoralDissonance as well as an innocent priest and reporter]]).

* Although virtually any mission is the ''{{ARMA}}'' series qualifies, there are a few specific missions of events that definitely escalate the scale of combat from "minor infantry skirmish" to "full on war."

* Most ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' games have at least one chapter towards the end of the game consisting of a ''huge'' map with tons of enemies (and often lots of reinforcements), with the enemy commander being a ClimaxBoss. The map itself tends to be fairly open in terrain and the enemy force often contains lots of mounted units. Examples of this kind of chapter include "Camus the Sable" in [[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight the first game]], "The Last Decisive Battle" in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem Mystery of the Emblem]]'', "Across the River" in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemThracia776 Thracia 776]]'', "The Binding Blade" in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade Binding Blade]]'', "Cog of Destiny" and "Victory or Death" in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Blazing Blade]]'', "Blood and Sand" in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones The Sacred Stones]]'', "Clash!" in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Path of Radiance]]'', "The Conqueror" in ''[[VideGame/FireEmblemAwakening Awakening]]'', "Light Scatters" in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Fates: Birthright]]'', [[UpToEleven every chapter from 22 onwards]] in ''Fates: Conquest'', and "Black Flames" in ''Fates: Revelation''.

** Things get truly out of hand in ''FireEmblemRadiantDawn'', at the end of Part 3, when almost every important character in the game (including a good number of peace-lovers) clash with each other amongst a huge army of Mooks. What's more, this is a ''[[KillEmAll rout map]]'' so you're being expected to wipe out almost all 100+ enemies to win. [[spoiler:Then the increasingly ominous death counter hits 80, and a sudden plot twist immedeately cuts the battle short.]]

* ''Franchise/MetalGear'':