SSFitzgerald

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In games, especially RTS games, there are units, technologies, and sometimes just equipment that is overpowered. Sometimes this works well in some games, but is often just used by the developers to create a balance. Yes these units present a challenge, but often times will lead to frustration with the player and end with the player creating a modification to "rebalance" the game. Here is a short list of units, technologies, and equipment that is overpowered compared to the rest of the game.

-Command and Conquer Generals & Zero Hour: Overlord tank, yes it's fun to roll a small squad of these into the enemy's base, but there is no reall countermeasure against these. Unless of course you have a huge sum of money and can spend more on tanks and jets, but then most of the tanks will be simple cannon fodder and the jets just lay prey for the gattling cannons on the Overlords,
-Resident Evil 4: Krauser, yes, the second to last boss scene and the hardest of all the boss fights. Odd that he is the second to the last. This fight caused a lot of frustration, a man who can take magnum rounds to the face but is killed by a glitch with the knife? Capcom didn't think that one through.
-Resident Evil 4: The Thompson Submachinegun, don't get me wrong, I love the .45 acp bullet in the real world, but the unlimited ammo combined with the power of the gun removed the experience of the game that the fans sot after. Yes it's an unlockable, but the lack of ammo present in the game made the gun very tempting. 
-Residvent Evil 4: The unlimited rocketlauncher, as if the thompson wasn't enough. This weapon presents the same advantage of the thompson of unlimited ammunition, with triple the power. Not only is that a great advantage, even against bosses, but at close range you do not need to worry about the splass effect hurting your character too often. Odd part is, you unlock this before you unlock the thompson.
-Resident Evil 5: The unlimited ammo upgrade, same as with the 4th installment, but for any weapon you upgrade. This completely removes the feeling of Resident Evil which the orginal games had. Yes I many other parts of the game, and yes you can choose to have the unlimited ammo on or off, but how easy is it to say "I beat the game on Expert" but with unlimited ammo.....
-Warhammer 40,000: The Space Marines, my favorite fraction, but also the most over powered fraction in the game. No other fraction can face the Space Marines on a fair playing ground. For example, a squad of marines can over power a squad of orcs with whatever upgrades, and forgett about any of the other fractions, especially the imperial gaurd who are only strong oncy they have every technology purchased.
-Rise of Nations: The United States, well all I can say is no one every wants to play as Russia during the cold war. Why? Well just play the game and figure it out.
-Ghost Recon: The hardest difficulty, anywhere from 6-7 body shots to kill the computer, but only one shot to kill one of your guys. Yes there are of course head shots, but with anything other then a sniper rifle at long distance, that's a real lucky shot.