10 Best Video Game Power-Ups Ever

Easily the best ability in the Metroid series, turning Samus into a rolling ball of spinning, shining destruction that can obliterate any enemy on contact. Let’s reel off the list of things this will help the player with when they unlock the screw attack.

They gain added mobility, moving faster and more freely throughout the level, really, you can almost fly with this damn thing. With this better movement comes the ability to duck and dodge around enemies before killing them on contact.

Beyond this, you’ll be able to access areas you couldn’t before, such as those being covered by screw attack blocks which you can now, of course, destroy. Ultimately, you’ve got a ton of abilities rolled into one as well as an increased likelihood of survival.

Describing such beauty doesn’t do it justice, and you’d really have to play or view the power-up in action for yourself to appreciate it.