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Weapons have always been a major part of most games to date, be they the run-of-the-mill set pieces we see in games nowadays, or truly unique pieces of art and craftsmanship that pop up once in a while. This list is made to commemorate those weapons that stand out amongst the rest; those that were just not incredibly effective at their roles, but incredibly memorable in their implementation, uniqueness or otherwise just being an absolute blast to play with.
#10: The Artic Warfare Magnum / Artic Warfare Police (Counter Strike)
The AWP, as it’s most commonly known, is probably the most notable sniper rifle in existence, simply because of just how much it’s used in Counter Strike matches. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never played Counter Strike yourself, but if you know a gamer, chances are you’ve heard of this weapon at least once. The sniper is, in essence, the holy grail of any Counter Strike player. Granting the ability to one (or at most two) shoot to kill anything, he who controls the AWP first controls the match – provided one can master its timing and limited ammo clip.Its sheer usefulness, capacity and fame have given the AWP the right to earn a place on this list – even if it’s just at #10.
#9: Gravity Hammer (Halo 3)
The Gravity Hammer is probably the second most fun melee weapon I’ve used to date. While it is generally agreed upon that its not too effective in Multiplayer combat, its use in the Single Player campaign was significant enough that it still gets into the list. The gravity hammer is…well, a giant hammer. Bigger than the Master Chief, all you need to do is get close to a target and WHAM! It’s dead! The hammer affects an area of effect around you, so you don’t even need to hit the target itself – just anywhere nearby.It’s an incredibly fun weapon to play around with in Single Player, especially against multiple opponents all gathered in the same spot. The most fun I had with this weapon was when implementing it against a horde of those buzzing insect things that fly around and are incredibly hard to hit. When they swarmed, I took the liberty to jump and hit the trigger, after which BOOM. Instant fly-swatter. The hammer literally gives new meaning to the words “they all fall down” and is the reason why it’s on this list (albeit, at #9).
#8: The Type 7 Disruptor (F.E.A.R.)
The Type 9 is probably one of the most fun weapons to use in all of F.E.A.R. Although it slows you down significantly, the weapon is almost dead-on accurate, hitting wherever you generally aim and point it. The recoil on the weapon isn’t much, allowing for one to snipe with ease, while the clip is generally large enough that you don’t need to worry about reloading all that often.The best part of this weapon (and the reason why it’s on this list) however, is its intended effect: leaving behind your opponents in nothing but charred, smoking skeletons as the smoke dissipates. The first time I saw this effect, I couldn’t help but go “WTF?! Wasn’t there a person there?” and experienced a fair bit of shock. After that though, it became a gleeful experience going around and sniping with the Type 9 – especially during online multiplayer matches in F.E.A.R. Combat, where the sniper proved itself more than capable at insta-gibbing unarmored foes.
#7: Doom Chainsaw (Doom 1)
CHAINSAW! Seriously, what more can you say about it?This thing was one of the bloodiest, goriest and most awesome weapons in its day. Sure, it may not have power or range, but who fucking needs range when you’re ripping out the guts of creature after creature, all the while laughing maniacally? This was one of the many memories of using the Doom 1 Chainsaw. No melee weapon since has come close to the gore, or indeed, the sheer amount of awesome with this. But use of it was still rather limited and when the later bosses could beat you at range, it took a back seat.But still, it’s awesome enough that it still outclasses its successors, especially the Gears of War Chainsaw Bayonet (which really just pales in comparison to the original), earning it the #7 position.
#6: Shrink Ray (Duke Nukem 3D)
The Shrink Ray is something that is not just incredibly unique, but to date hasn’t really been duplicated in quite the same way. The original Shrink Ray would let you literally shrink a foe, making him into a bite-site morsel that could either (a) be blown the hell up or (b) stepped on and squished like a little bug. Alternatively, you could use the thing to shrink yourself, allowing you to reach places that were normally impossible to do so at your regular size – or if you were crazy enough, to fight against the (then) gigantic regular enemies.This unique effect has rarely been duplicated since; same for the ability to actually *squash* your opponents under your feet. The utter uniqueness of this weapon (and yes, it IS a weapon since you can use it to weaken/kill enemies) along with the fun one could have with it is what makes the Shrink Ray #6 on the list.
#5: Smartgun (Alien Vs. Predator Series)
I remember the Smartgun incredibly fondly, but not because of how effective it was. No, I remember it with sweet memories because of how much it helped in the cold, dark and alien-infested corridors in the Alien vs Predator series. When your motion tracker started to beep with incoming hostiles and it was dark with the night-vision revealing absolutely little on where the opponents may be coming from, more than the Minigun and the rocket launcher, the Smart Gun was a God-send.Even when you couldn’t see a thing, the Smartgun could. It would nudge your aim in the right direction, locking onto the Xeno running in your direction before it even got into sight. This allowed you to take out those scumbags before they got close enough – and even if they did, a short burst of fire would outright kill all of them most of the time. Although ammo for the weapon was rare and it slowed you down a fair bit, in the frightening darkness of Alien vs Predator’s corridors, the Smartgun was the bright light that illuminated your way. Its helpful auto-aim even in the darkest abyss has saved many a Terran Marine’s life and thus earned it the position of #5.
#4: The BFG10K (Quake II Edition)
The Big… er, Freakin’ Gun 10k! Despite being more of a direct homage to Doom 1’s BFG9K, it still makes it on this list simply for how awesome the weapon feels when you first fire it, or when you use it subsequently. Despite being identical in many visual effects to the BFG9000, the BFG10k is a significant improvement over its predecessor simply because of the charge-up time, its sound and the camera shake associated to it.No other weapon to date has given me that same feeling when I fire a gun – that sheer, drunk and euphoric feeling of power you get when the BFG10K is charging up. The sound effects, the camera shake – all of it gives this mental image in the scant second or two before it fires that the weapon you’re wielding is one motha-freakin’ big-ass gun that can blow the shit out anything in your way. And this image is no illusion, either. The green ball of death it lets loose is massive and literally clears an entire room of enemies from not just the impact radius, but the resultant beams as well.Although not as effective against the latter stage bosses, ammo for the BFG10K is in sufficient enough quantity that you can literally go on a rampage against anything lesser, and enjoy watching as you insta-gib them into tiny pieces of flesh. This is what awards it the #4 position.
#3: Bow & Arrow (Turok Series)
Whenever I think of fun weapons I’ve used, my mind always returns to this. I don’t know why, but for some reason the Bow & Arrow from Turok and Turok 2 are always somewhere in the top-most portions of my mind. The way it works had hardly ever been copied in any game since.The Bow and Arrow are most notable for just how the mechanism of Turok 2 works. Arrows act ‘real’ in the sense that they penetrate the surface and go all the way through the enemy, crippling them (they actually WALK like they have an arrow in their shoulder, for example), making the effect of display all the more real. The best part was that even if you missed, it didn’t matter – you could retrieve the arrows from walls or even the corpses of downed foes. This recoverable ammo, plus the ability to upgrade it to a sniper-bow (not to mention switching to explosive ammo later on) makes the bow a worthy choice for #3.
#2: Redeemer (Unreal Tournament series)
Portable nuclear warhead – that’s the mightiest weapon in the Unreal Tournament universe in a nutshell. The blast radius itself is usually so big that one could vaporize themselves if they aren’t careful. And then, there’s the camera guided missile view that, while exposing your body to danger, let’s you direct the nuke to any smart-ass camper wanting to play chicken. It’s most responsive on vehicles and I’m actually looking forward to seeing how it’ll match up against the titanic Darkwalker in Unreal Tournament 3. Make no mistake though – shoot this even remotely close to your desired target of hate and they will die.
And the #1 Position Goes to…
The Cerebral Bore (Turok 2)
The Cerebral Bore has been described as “One of the grossest weapons ever!”, and from just seeing it in action many would be tempted to agree. However, no other game has any similar kind of weapon – nobody has dared to go this sublimely freaky.You operate the Cerebral Bore mostly by simply pointing at an opponent and firing. A bore then attaches to the opponent’s head and starts to suck out their brains. Watching the creature then stagger as it’s being attacked is both incredibly horrifying as well as disgusting, especially when after all the blood/bwainz/ooze is gone, the thing explodes, killing the opponent. There’s no other weapon out there that quite gives you that same feeling of both not wanting to use something so ghastly and unquestionably cruel, yet at the same time makes you to want to utilize it because it’s just so bloody effective in all the best ways (i.e. its not dead until its DEAD)!This combination of disgust yet sheer uniqueness happily earns the Cerebral Bore the #1 position. There are really very rare few weapons out there that can top this – and those that do, I either don’t know about or are too obscure to matter.
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November 9th, 2007 at 12:29 am
And that goes without saying, they better have the Cerebral Bore in the new Turok game~
November 9th, 2007 at 12:58 am
Awwww,I like Redeemer more :p,anyways nice list Deja(MUST play Turok 2)
November 9th, 2007 at 1:01 am
Err sory,Singh wrote it:p
Ps:Kudos to remember the Smart Gun!
November 9th, 2007 at 1:02 am
dont shoot me! ^^ u can has my cheezburgurz T.T
November 9th, 2007 at 2:04 am
What, No gravity gun?
November 9th, 2007 at 3:49 am
Yeah, where is the gravity gun from Half Life 2?? The list is incomplete without it.
November 9th, 2007 at 3:55 am
Also the Voodoo Doll from Blood was amazing. I would have included that and the Gravity gun in MY list.
November 9th, 2007 at 7:57 am
WEll, i would have kinda liked to see the Spider Gun from Unreal 2. Sure it sucked ass, but it did look cool!! Also, some of the weapons from Prey were pretty cool and organic enough to make someone lose their lunch!
Nice list tho’.
November 9th, 2007 at 8:35 am
Forgot to mention, good work Singh, nice list there, one more weapon which comes to my mind which I would have liked to include in my list has to be the “Painkiller” from Painkiller.
November 9th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Great work, but with all such lists, people will always get a little upset when their favorites aren’t included, I suppose. Oh well, that’s what this discussion area is for.
First up, the GravHammer. It’s great for splatting some hapless enemy, especially a dual wielding one, but I would have loved to see some sort of alternate system like Tartarus’ GravHammer in Halo 2, which allowed him to pull in people close and then smash them into bits.
And then there’s the GravGun. It IS more of a weapon than a “puzzle solving device” (which is ALL the Portal “Device” was) Most of the time, we used the gravgun to actually KILL people with physics objects instead of solving puzzles. Chopping zombies in half with sawblades or picking up and tossing Combine like ragdolls with the SuperPhysCannon was just too sweet. Besides, there’s NO weapon out there that just allows you to catch an energy ball or a grenade that’s meant to kill you and use it to kill the enemy. I am actually a lil’ sore that the GG is indeed not on that list.
Since the voodoo doll and spider gun have already been mentioned, here’s more awesome weapons that made me (ab)use them over and over again – The Land Shark Gun from Armed and Dangerous, the Angry Kitty (or heck even the pacifist banana) from NOLF2, the Singularity Generator from Blood, the Proxy Mines from UT GOTY/ChaosMod, the Quake 2/3 railguns, the FarSight from Perfect Dark and a dozen more which I am probably forgetting.
Can’t put all of them in a top 10 list, so maybe we should make a video feature out of it. *hint hint*
Has anyone seen anything that indicates the return of the cerebral bore in the upcoming Turok?
November 9th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
oooh..oooh….wait, there’s also the laser cannon from Serious Sam!
Some other really amazing weapons were :
* The Alien Jaws in AVP
* The blue guy in Kiss: Psycho Circus and his electric gloves! Similar to the lightning hands in Heretic.
So yeah – the list can be huge
. But i think the ones you have up there are pretty much top-10 material. Nice work!!!
November 9th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
hey where’s my lightsaber?????
November 9th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Lightsaber? Hmm, wasn’t that from the movie to begin with? I don’t deny the lightsaber is awesome, but nobody in the games industry had to actually sit down and come up with a weapon that kicks ass.
Ooh, ooh, also forgot – the Discs of Tron! Now THAT was awesome!
November 9th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Yeah. too bad the game sucked lightsabers!
November 9th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Pain….from Painkiller, was real crazy-@ss to literally draw a line of death and watch the idiots run into it, shudder and fall in wierd and funny ways thanks to the ragdoll. Also shooting it directly at enemies would pull them a bit towards you…real fun and effective gun.
Also the spider mines from UT2k4, deploy them and then lead them to the enemy, felt like you were the pied piper , and as soon as someone saw spiders scuttling on the map, they would make a run for high ground…great fun
November 12th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Nice nice nice! When it comes to the relative age of the games I first played, I can make a lot of people feel VERY old; so it was more like a trail-of-drool walk through a museum than one down memory lane for me.
But yeah the grav-gun could have got a mention. Anyhoo, nice work!
November 18th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
“Oh ho ho, sticky bomb liking you!”
- Lo Wang
No better weapon ever! From Shadow Warrior (1997)
November 18th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
AND, there not all fantasy!
November 21st, 2007 at 1:47 am
Omg, the gravity gun isn’t in there? The Portal gun isn’t in there? I know portal gun isn’t technically a gun, but I suppose you could count it as one since it fires portals. Still, this list is pretty bad on some weapons.
November 22nd, 2007 at 10:30 am
Some more Awesome Weapons
The Ethereal Crossbow – Heretic
The Gelzibiar (or Whatever) Stone – Undying (for its Cool light and sound Effects)
Bone Storm Spell – Hexen 2
November 26th, 2007 at 6:29 am
3 words: Crysis Tac Gun
It made my list behind the Cerebral Bore as number 2. Seriously, there’s no other gun that makes you feel like some kind of deity when you fire it.
“What’s that over there? Some mortals you say? *click*
>>BOOM.
No more mortals.
*rocks and dust shower everywhere*”
November 27th, 2007 at 2:59 am
What about the cat silencer for the shotgun and machine gun in postal2? While it was not a weapon in and of itself, it was certainly hilarious to stick the cat on and hear it meow as i fired.
Speaking of postal 2, i always found the anthrax filled cow head to be rather awesome as well.
Best regards,
Dom
November 27th, 2007 at 4:30 am
No Farsight XR-20 from Perfect Dark? Come on, that gun could zoom in through walls, instantly lock on to the nearest enemy, and fire through walls for a one-shot kill every time. And it views it in infrared. And there’s the gravity gun, but that’s so obvious that I guess it really isnt’t worth putting on every one of these lists.
November 27th, 2007 at 7:51 am
I love the GG too but… the runner up for me is the Wepon from UT that let you fire a big gravity vortex (cant remeber name off the top of my head)
November 27th, 2007 at 7:53 am
nice awm/awp image…. not.. thats a picture of the wrong gun…
November 27th, 2007 at 7:56 am
How about the Farsight XR20 from Perfect Dark? I mean, you could shoot through walls with it, it could see through walls, AND THE SECONDARY FIRE LINED THE CROSSHAIR UP ON THEIR HEAD!
Overpowered? Yes. Fun? You know it.
November 27th, 2007 at 7:57 am
It needs the gravity gun and the Land Shark gun from Armed and Dangerous
November 27th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Yup .. wrong image of the AWM from CS. Here’s the correct gun: http://www.csadasi.com/silah_img/awp.jpg
Btw .. the Gravity Gun from HL2 (best ever), the Rail Gun from Quake 2, and the Dildo from GTA: San Andreas ;D
November 27th, 2007 at 10:04 am
I am so fuckin’ annoyed that you would talk about the awp and put a picture of the autosniper… are you fucking serious? A video game blog getting something like that wrong? my room mate who plays like 2 games a year even saw that! COME ON KIDS! LEARN U GAMeZ BETTAr
November 27th, 2007 at 10:27 am
How about the Tranquilizer gun from
Timesplitters Future Perfect?
It can be seen in action here:
IGN Trailer
November 27th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Ummm. Where is the chainsaw gun from Gears of War. wtf?
November 27th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
“Ummm. Where is the chainsaw gun from Gears of War. wtf?”
1) Gears of War is not a first person shooter.
2) he mentioned the chainsaw bayonet in the chainsaw from Doom description.
as has been mentioned, I feel this list is lacking the gravity guy from HL2 (any weapon that lets me kill someone in multiplayer with a sink or a chair, or catch grenades and throw them back has got to be good), but otherwise a damn excellant list.
nice job
November 28th, 2007 at 1:21 am
The Farsight Perfect Dark… That was fun…
November 28th, 2007 at 3:35 am
In my opinion, Postal 2 has the most entertaining weapons by far.
The railgun from Quake 2 wasn’t that spectacular… personally I prefer the rail driver from Red Faction 2… can target enemies through walls, and you can basically spike people right through about as many walls as are between you and the target (maybe that was multiplayer only? I forget). Dunno if anyone mentioned that yet.
I did pick up the flaw in the “AWP” picture, but fortunately I outgrew CS. Games like that are just not fun for me anymore; too many little pricks get too serious with that stupid shit. Then again I’m still stuck on Team Fortress Classic (and no, fuck TF2), and always will be, provided I can get my Steam client working again.
November 28th, 2007 at 5:18 am
It’s “arctic”, idiot.
November 28th, 2007 at 10:47 am
yeah… thats not a picture of an awp…
its a picture of the sniper in the game
so you fail!
November 28th, 2007 at 10:47 am
worst sniper*
November 28th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Your missing the Laptop gun in Perfect Dark for the 64
November 29th, 2007 at 3:04 am
For me, the best gun in a FPS was the Laptop gun from Perfect Dark. Accurate, powerful, and the ability to set it up as a sentry was invaluable!
November 29th, 2007 at 3:54 am
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November 29th, 2007 at 5:14 am
No Portal Gun? Technically it can kill those little turret things.
November 30th, 2007 at 12:00 am
OMG Turok Rage Wars was one of my favorite games, I completely forgot about the cerebral bore.
best friggin weapon ever.
November 30th, 2007 at 12:13 am
What youve got in slot #10 there is an auto snipe pic, not a AWP. And its not just like oh oh well its basically the same because they are completly differnet. One is for noobs, the other for bigger noobs. I’ll let you figure out which is which, then again you may have extreme difficulty with that task since you are clearly an un-informed moron.
November 30th, 2007 at 1:58 am
Yes, brushing up on my Counter-Strike know-how certainly sounds like the perfect weekend plan. Right next to guzzling cockroach guts and kerosene.
November 30th, 2007 at 4:52 am
By the the best weapon was not even listed and that would have to be the crowbar from the half life series
November 30th, 2007 at 8:40 am
The Bow and arrow from TUROK!!! What about the energy sword from Halo!?!?!?
November 30th, 2007 at 9:28 am
What about that gun in turk where everything was wiped off the stage almost?
November 30th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
The Chronosceptor (Chronoscepter? whatever) is what you mean, i think? Fired a blue beam type thing that obliterated stuff… fun weapon, that was.
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:45 am
where the auger from resistance? THAT THING SHOT THROUGH WALLS AND MADE A FORCE FIELD. where’s the grav gun from half-life???WTF? a bow and arrow? this list sucks
December 3rd, 2007 at 1:23 am
Spartan laser ???
December 6th, 2007 at 7:07 am
What about the portal gun from Half-Life: Opposing Force? That thing was badass.
December 8th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Thank you! I was reading this list thinking “what? no cerebral bore? its the most unique weapon I’ve ever seen!” Then it comes in at #1. While Turok 2 was a pretty forgettable (not to mention impossible) game, that weapon made it a joy to play!
December 9th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
i love these weapons, doom chainsaw is the best!
December 16th, 2007 at 8:07 am
wtf? never played Gears of War??????
Torque Bow???
Chainsaw (GoW)???
Your list sucks ball.
December 16th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Halo 1 pistol : (
December 16th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
what about the Gauss gun/ Tau cannon from Half-Life 1!!
This gun single handedly created the best online fps multiplayer experience ever!!!
with it you could:
shoot through walls, jump very high, and combined with a longjump you could move much faster, escape from tough situations and fire with another weapon mid air! and if u aimed well you could kill in one shot.
December 16th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Im amazed how every1 has forgotted the HUGE variety of most definately awesome weapons in the south park game. Now those were truly unique.
December 16th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
No gravity gun? Are you fucking kidding?
This list is totally out of date.
December 17th, 2007 at 2:18 am
My alltime favorite was the rocket launcher in Quake 1 .
No other weapon in any game have ever had the ability to do that rocket jump stunt .
December 17th, 2007 at 9:10 am
RCP-90 – Goldeneye?
December 17th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Dude what about the piano wire from Hitman, that thing is awful, sneak up and strangle anyone you want, then steal their clothes.
December 18th, 2007 at 5:23 am
Reedemer?? Terd thru space, only ever had to spit on it to take it down. Nooob. Shock rifle, #1 all time (what made you cry and leave… remember?)! Dual enforcers!! Razor thing… and the rocket launcher rocked.. most weapons from UT that arent’ redeemers. Hell… translocator.. bestest weapon ever! Nothing spells God like nailing someone with that sucker ten times in a row. especially when they’re hiding flyign the big terd. Damn I feel like that playing that old dog right now. ‘Nother cool gun.. RPK on Americas’ Army, or well cooked grenades, play online against 20 cheating whores and you’ll come to agree, but then you noobs all seem to enjoy seeing through walls. Crappiest weapons? Everything on Unreal 2k3. Sniper rifle on FarCry was fun.
December 19th, 2007 at 5:07 am
the laptop gun from perfect dark is nice too
January 28th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Dude the Grav Hammer from Halo 3? Are you out of you mind? Halo 3 sucked people are just having a hard time admitting it and the grav hammer was not a ground breaking or genre changing weapon.
And please the BOW AND FUCKING ARROW FROM TUROK!?!?!? man Turok has to be one of the lesser FPS series epically in terms of weapons. The bow and arrow was useless: it was slow, hard to aim, and did very little damage.
Then to add insult to injury you throw in the fucking cerebral boar!?! Christ on a fucking cross what a lame gun, it took up like 1/2 your screen making the game that much more unplayable then you shoot 1 boar which slowly kills 1 enemy. Wow. At the same time you could have fired XXX number of rockets and cleared the room. While i am raggin on the Turok series i may as well add in the 5 missile launcher sucked a cock.
You listed the BFG from quake and the chain saw from Doom? WTF are u thinking? have you ever written a top ten list?
Doom was known for the BFG. DOOM = BFG, even my fucking mom knows that. and in case you missed it they MADE A DOOM MOVIE which included the BFG from DOOM!
I hate this list so much I am going to have to regularly read your blog so I can flame more.
February 2nd, 2008 at 1:16 am
Note: the BFG10k screenshot shows the Generations Arena ( http://www.wireheadstudios.org ) version of that gun. Phoenix modelled it, and I skinned it.
Ofcourse, I do agree with putting this one in the list, especially since this means that the Generations Arena version of the gun is actually better than the original. Rock on.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:46 am
thats not an awp , thats an automatic rifle . awp is green !