Gaming's greatest unexplained super powers
The super powers we allow our game c🌱haracters to have so that our games are more interesting

They're totally super powers
And today, we pay homage to these abilities - the super powers of ℱgaming that represent the sacrifice we make every time we boot up a Call of Duty game: the sacr🌺ifice of realism for the sake of gameplay.

Slow motion
Examples: Max Payne, Dead to Rights, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Sleeping Dogs
Being able to slow down time randomly has been given several names. Sometim𓃲es it's called "Adrenaline," oth💧er times it's "Shoot Dodging," but no matter what name it's assigned, we all know what it is: that thing everyone decided was awesome after The Matrix came out.

Never needing to eat, sleep, pee, or fulfill any other mortal necessities
Exa𒅌mples: Everything except The Sims and The Ship.
Link doesnও't poop once during his entire journey to save Hyrule from Gannon. Not once. Altair? He doesn't, either. Though some games give the option to eat, drink, sleep, or use the facilities, it's hardly🥀 ever actually needed, acting as a proxy to heal lost life or save instead of doing what it actually does: keep humans alive.

Swinging on a pole indefinitely
Examples: Prince of Persia, Enslaved, Tomb Raider
Acrobatic platformers were all the rage last-generation, with characters like The Prince and Lara Croft jumping from pole to platform to explore ancient crypts. 🎶Both games also allow their heroes to swing on poles... indefin🍬itely. Just spinning and spinning and spinning...

Regenerating health
Examples: Nearly every game after 1999
This one sort of makes sense, at its core. If you're beat up, you can take a deep breath, relax for a few seconds, and head back into the battle. But when this concept is found in a shooter, where your character regularly gets shot in the face, our suspension of disbelief is tested - especially when the bullet-holes are𝄹 shown (Max Payne, we're looking at you).

Indestructible, immovable costumes and hair
Examples: Most adventure games, Nathan Drake's half-tucked sဣhirt
Some games show the character's outfits changing throughout the game. Others, though, treat the character models as🔴 untouchable effigies, with perfect hair and costumes that won't budge no matter how many bullets they soak, punches they take, or leaps they make.

Double jumping
Examples: Team Fortress 2, Devil May Cry, Super Sma🌟sh Bros.
Seriously, this is one you can go outside and try. Jump, and then without touching the ground or anything at all, jump again. You can't do it. It's not a thing. And yet, despite that, a huge amount of retro platformers incluജded the ability to jump and then to also jump again. Modern games do this less, and usually explain it, but sometimes they'll still throw it in without any justification out of what we assume is development habit, giving random characters the super human ability to jump whilst jumping.

Seeing around corners without looking
Examples: All cover shooters, most stealth games that don🦩't give the characte⛎r secret agent tools
Nearly every third-person game gives the player the ability to see stuff that the in-game character's can't. Once cover is added in, this feature usefulness is improved tenfold, as the character is able to act on what the player can see. In stealth games the character ca♛n react to an oncoming guard that they couldn't possibly see, and in shooters it allows the player to blind-fire at enemies, taking them down without looking around the corner.

Respawning after death
Examples: Nearly every game ever
Essentially any game that doesn't have perma-death or explain why characters are able to come back to life after dying has granted their characters with one of the most powerful superpowers of all: immortality. Dying and coming back to life - with the knowledge of what killed you - is absurdly pꦯowerful, and nearly every game ever made does it.

The ability to revive dying friends by tapping their shoulder
Examples: Gears of War, Left 4 Dead
Besides being able to ꦦcome back to life over and over again, the ability to resurrect allies in squad-based games is another feat of super heroism that has been appearing in more 👍and more games. We'll give magical syringes a pass, since we can assume that there's some sort of medical voodoo that allows a needle to heal bullet wounds, but when all it takes is "being helped up" or a slap on the shoulder, to bring someone back from the brink of death it's a little much.

Being completely invisible to enemies more than X feet away
Examples: Every MMORPG
The idea of "aggro" in MMORPGs sort of makes sense once the battle starts - of course enemies will focus on specific players over others. But the act of getting aggro has always meant walking SUPER close to enemies, mean💧ing there are two optionꦰs: every enemy has terrible vision, or the players are invisible, and don't become visible until they're right up next to the enemy. Neither makes that much sense, but we think the second is more likely.

Dual-wielding shotguns without breaking arms
Examp𝓀les: Call o✨f Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Marathon 2, Call of Juarez, Timesplitters
Firing a shotgun without holding it correctly could shatter your arms, or cause enough recoil to break your hand or nose. In case you're wondering, holding a shotgun with one hand isn't correct. Despite this, characters oft𓄧en hold two powerful guns and can not only fire them accurately without breaking their bones, but somehow reload them. Maybe they're holding the shells in their belly buttons.

Not shattering knuckles when using melee on objects/people
Examples: Supꦬer Mario Bros., most games with melee
Ever punch someone? It hurts. Bad. And yet in many games, characters punch out dozens of people without breaking a sweat (or a finger). Wha💖t's more, Mario can punch stone blocks all day long without wounding himself. Talk about a superཧ power - he's essentially Hellboy with that fist.

Super finger strength
Ex♚amples: Assassin's Cree﷽d, Prince of Persia, Infamous, most games involving climbing
Holding on to a pull-up bar for a long time is really, really difficult. It takes massive upper-body strength, and is quite a workout in and of itself. Holding onto something by just your fingertips? Well, it's essentially impossible to do it like they do in video games, meaning they must have some sort of superhuma🐎n finger powers.

It's a bird! It's a plane!
What about you? What are you💛r favorite super powers in gaming?
And if you're interested in more super-powered lists, check out our list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best super hero games of all time and the 澳洲🅰幸运5开奖号码历史查询:top 7 games that deserveꦐ comic book spin-offs.

Hollander Cooper was the Lead Features Editor of GamesRadar+ between 2011 and 2014. After that lengthy stint managing GR's editorial calendar he moved behind the curtain and into the video game indu🌼stry itself, working as social media manager for EA and as a communications lead at Riot Games. Hollander is currently stationed at Apple as an organic social l🧸ead for the App Store and Apple Arcade.