Gamers love a visceral weapon. Even when a specific shotgun or gunblade doesn’t do a ton of injury, we’ll gladly use it if it feels and sounds superb to shoot. Some video games go a bit of overboard with weapons. These 15 video games serve up the wildest ammo and projectile concoctions we’ve ever seen, taking ‘overboard’ to the following stage. Apparently sufficient, these projectiles are fairly helpful in fight along with their wacky novelty and humor.
1. Bathrooms – Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2 helped revolutionize the way in which physics work in video video games with its versatile use of the Havok engine. Filling up trash bins with cans is cool and all, however the gravity gun actually took physics to the following stage. Nearly any bodily object within the atmosphere could possibly be used as a projectile with the gravity gun’s decide up and punt performance. Whereas saws and explosive barrels show essentially the most lethal objects to make use of, we couldn’t assist capturing bogs at foes. Our excuse for utilizing a rest room was the “flushed” achievement, however the hilarity of it was usually the true motive. To Judith Mossman’s disappointment, we couldn’t assist however deal with the gravity gun as a toy all through Half-Life 2.
Land Shark – Armed and Harmful
This 2003 Lucasarts third-person shooter could have been a repetitive slog at occasions, however it had humor by the bucketloads. The Monty Python and Star Wars parodies had been nice enjoyable, however the Land Shark gun takes the cake as the sport’s craziest factor. Simply shoot at an enemy and a dwell shark tunnels by the bottom, popping up beneath your opponent to eat them alive. Armed and Harmful might not be remembered for its stage design or something, however the Land Shark lives on as one of many wildest issues shot at an enemy in video games.
Pixels – Ratchet & Clank 2016
How may a Ratchet & Clank sport not make it on a listing like this? Whereas it was a given, what was tough was deciding which weapons made earned a spot. I couldn’t resist the Pixelizer from the 2016 reboot. Because the title suggests, this helpful shotgun variant morphs enemies right into a pile of 2D pixels. The icing on high is that they crumble aside like lego bricks when defeated by the shot.
Drill Bore – Turok 2
It’s exhausting to beat the Cerebral Bore with regards to sport weapon brutality. A mixture of a homing system, noticed, and clamp, the Cerebral Bore tracks enemy brains and latches onto them, and effectively, the remainder. Turok 2 exhibits a stunning quantity of blood and gore because the bore tunnels by enemies’ skulls. Whereas it’s definitely a satisfying weapon to make use of, the Cerebral Bore is without doubt one of the sport’s slower weapons as a result of lock-on and scanning time.
Dubstep ‘wubs’ – Saints Row 4
“It’s a celebration in a gun! Make the world dance to your beat and worry the facility of your wubs!” That’s the in-game description of the Dubstep Gun and it suits the invoice. Not solely does it appear like a turntable, however it actually shoots streams of dubstep vitality at opponents. What’s much more hilarious and neat is the particular music monitor modifications relying on the outfit worn.
Argent Vitality Plasma – Doom (2016)
Each Doom participant is aware of the harmful energy of the BFG. It’s essentially the most infamous weapon within the collection for good motive. And it’s helpful in addition, provided that it’s one in all two weapons in Doom 2016 with its personal devoted button (as a substitute of the weapon wheel). Doom 2016’s iteration of the BFG makes use of inexperienced plasma created from Argent Vitality, dealing as much as 6000 injury to an enemy. This factor can vaporize and kill any enemy in a single shot so long as it’s not one of many bosses. The splash injury can also be fairly giant, catching teams and stragglers within the explosion radius very simply. You recognize you’ve simply acquired the very best weapon when that BFG Division music begins enjoying.
Swords – Borderlands 2
Among the many 1000’s upon 1000’s of gun variants obtainable all through the Borderlands video games, the Swordsplosion!!! gun takes the cake as most ridiculous. This E-tech shotgun is just obtainable within the Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Preserve DLC from Borderlands 2. Not solely does it shoot an exploding sword, however it spawns different smaller swords that explode, spawning even tinier swords. It’s maybe essentially the most weird tackle the weapons I’ve seen and I adore it.
Rainbows Farts – Pink Faction: Armageddon
As an alternative of your typical tremendous weapon being rewarded upon finishing the sport, Pink Faction: Armageddon provides gamers a unicorn gun that farts rainbows. It’s not only a foolish novelty although, because the Mr Toots gun offers a few of the most injury within the sport with its long-range high-powered laser shot. Enemies having the priviledge to be destroyed by Mr Toots explode in a confetti rainbow bathe to high all of it off.
Skunks – Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath
I’ve at all times appreciated Stranger’s Wrath for its distinctive tackle the wild west bounty hunter schtick. It actually seems like enjoying a kind of warped Jim Henson model of a basic Western. The third-person gunplay is fairly enjoyable, however the dwell ammo is especially charming. Every space has its personal ecosystem of rodents and mammals that Stranger can decide up and use as Crossbow ammo, and people lovable however smelly Stunkz are my decide on account of their cuteness and software. Taking pictures these skunks at enemies briefly immobilizes them, inflicting them to vomit uncontrollably.
Needles – Halo
Whereas the well-known M16 pistol from Halo 1 is undoubtedly the simplest weapon within the sport, the Needler was essentially the most modern and intriguing. A Covenant creation, the Needler pins enemies with a barrage of vitality needles that explode after just a few seconds of insertion. They’re like an arrow with a timed explosive. Simply capturing just a few needles at enemies does peanut injury, however spam that sucker onto your opponent and you’ve got a chained explosion that kills them inside seconds.
Water – Metallic Gear Stable V: The Phantom Ache
The Water Pistol is one in all many weapons that may be developed on the Mom Base. And it’s removed from the novelty merchandise that it initially appears. In addition to its utility distracting and doubtlessly blinding enemies with splashes of water, it will possibly short-circuit digital gear. However do you know the Water Pistol may even defeat a sure boss? That’s proper, the Man on Hearth may be defeated by spraying a ton of water from the Water Pistol immediately on him. It takes about 80 or so hits, however as soon as you’re taking him down, it’ll be the final word humiliation.
Plungers – Luigi’s Mansion 3
The unique Poltergust 3000 from the primary Luigi’s Mansion outlined the sport’s premise and idea with its Ghostbusters-like vacuum gameplay. Properly, the Poltergust has gone by some spectacular upgrades since Luigi’s first haunted home go to. Luigi’s Mansion 3 introduces a bunch of latest skills and options for the Poltergust G-00. The funniest occurs to be the Suction Shot, which includes plunging a ghost within the face and pulling it with a rope. The standard use of Suction Shot is to interrupt objects aside for simpler suction, however we are able to’t cease capturing plungers immediately on the enemies.
Thunderjaw – Ratchet & Clank: Rift Aside
Rift Aside is the second and closing Ratchet & Clank sport to make it on the checklist, and naturally it’s the RYNO. The RYNO is a returning legacy weapon, however the eighth iteration goes a step additional, summoning objects from numerous PlayStation video games. To get this final weapon, gamers should discover each Spybot within the sport. Your reward pays off although. I imply, who doesn’t need to smash enemies with Sully’s aircraft from Uncharted, Jak & Daxter, or a freaking Thunderjaw from Horizon: Zero Daybreak? Okay, technically, you’re dropping these objects from a portal and never capturing them, however you’re nonetheless capturing to open the portal, so it counts.
Junk – Fallout 3
Like Half-Life 2’s Gravity Gun, the Rock-It Launcher shoots a wide range of environmental objects at enemies. What makes this weapon distinctive is Fallout 3’s emphasis on junk objects. There’s a ton of junk inside the Capital Wasteland and most of it may be loaded into the Rock-It Launcher. It’s a tad disappointing that each junk merchandise has the identical injury output, however the number of stuff you may shoot at opponents is spectacular nonetheless.
Bullet Invoice – Mario Kart
Bullet Invoice is the oldest object on this checklist, with its first look in world 5-1 of the primary Tremendous Mario Bros. Sport from 1987. It wasn’t till Mario Kart Wii (and technically Mario Kart DS) when gamers may lastly harness the dread energy of Bullet Invoice on unsuspecting buddies. The kart turns into a large Bullet Invoice, auto-piloting by the course at top-speed catapulting others to the again of the road – that’s, till they smash you with one later within the race.
