Our Guide To The 14 Best (And Worst) Video Game Weapons

In most video games, you get to have a weapon. Something you can slay the zombie hordes with, or brutalize the skulls of aliens, shoot down legions of enemy soldiers, kill innocent people, knock Mario off his kart, or debilitate anyone who gets in your way. It’s the kind of mindless violence that video games do so well, which is one of the reasons why we love them.

And to help people down the ages let rip and unleash hell video game developers have come up with some incredibly inventive, and gruesome, weapons for players to mow down those digitised foes. They’ve also come up with some howlers too, ones that must’ve been put there to test our patience or as some kind of inside joke. So, let’s lock and load and countdown some of the best and some of the worst.

The Best

RC-P90 – GoldenEye 007 FPS Gravity Gun – Half Life 2 Red Shell – Mario KartM Laptop Gun – Perfect Dark Worms (various) Iron Man’s Proton Cannon – Marvel Vs Capcom Cerebral Bore – Turok 2

And Some Of The Worst:

The Prod – Worms

Klobb – GoldenEye 007
The Klobb was just weak, it was sluggish and inaccurate and you’d be better off staring smothering someone to death with love.

The Knife – Resident Evil 4
Only resorted to when all ammo has been depleted but, seriously, what good is this against the oncoming hoards of the undead!?

Bunch of Flowers – GTA IV
Amusing the first time you slap someone around the face with them, but not the kinda heat you want to be packing going up against the SAPD.

Brass Knuckles – Doom Giant’s Knife – The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Blue Shell – Mario Kart Wii

No doubt there’s many that I’ve missed, so let’s hear what they are!