Top 5 Video Game Weapons: Part II

Continuing our series of the biggest and baddest weapons found in video games, this instalment covers everything from lethal mining equipment and experimental real-world weapons...

November 16, 2012 / 09:45 IST
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Continuing our series of the biggest and baddest weapons found in video games, this instalment covers everything from lethal mining equipment and experimental real-world weapons to bizarre ones that can shrink or atomise all those who cross your path. This concluding part compiles weapons that have been sought after not only in games spanning the last two decades, but by Hollywood as well. Read on to know how these guns can go from dismembering limbs to firing Depleted Uranium slugs at the speed of light.Line Gun (Dead Space)In a world populated by claws, talons, fangs and seemingly insurmountable odds against the otherwise vulnerable human species, the only weapon that mattered at the end was ingenuity. What humans lacked in the evolutionary arms race, we made up with the ability to fashion deadly weapons using whatever our forefathers could lay their opposable thumbs upon. Dead Space's Isaac Clarke is the very embodiment of this ingenuity. An engineer by profession, Isaac survives the Necromorph infestation by co-opting mining and terraforming tools as deadly weapons. From plasma-powered cutters to pneumatic spike drivers, Dead Space features an unlikely arsenal that can slice, dice and burn through Necromorphs with consummate ease. Click here for full story

first published: Nov 16, 2012 09:37 am

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