Top 10 Coolest Weapons In Games

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Gray Fox in the original Metal Gear Solid famously claims that “only a fool trusts his life to a weapon.” He might be right, yeah, but he’s an anime-tier exosuit-wearing Cyborg Ninja who’s ‘roided to the brim with nanomachines.

We common folk might need some weapons in the predictable future when some wacky CEO tech bro inevitably puts our bodies in a video game scenario, so here are the best ones you can find.

‌Got no aim? Don’t bother training it. Instead, look for a “Bio Force Gun” 9000. Yeah, that’s what The Rock said it stands for in the Doom movie, so that’s probably the only meaning that acronym has ever had.

Pull the trigger once and every enemy that’s not a boss and whose name isn’t Marauder turns into mush. This is the quintessential late-game FPS weapon and one every player is sure to love even if only because of how useful it is.

Seeing it firing is also a thing of beauty, whether you’re playing the original Doom, Doom Eternal, or any Doom game that exists in between. I love it even in Doom 3, where overcharging it will lead to the player’s immediate demise.

The BFG even has a surprisingly simple but awesome story behind its design. Did you know that its model is just two toy guns glued together?

‌Everybody clowns on the Gunblade from FFVIII, but if you look at history, you’ll see military figures that actually used it to great success. One such person was one of UK Admiral Horatio Nelson’s top men who defeated Napoleon at Trafalgar, his only defeat at sea.

I imagine he didn’t decide the battle on a 1v1 against a gunless saber-wielding Napoleon, but that’s a more likely picture than imagining Nelson’s man using a Buster sword. Yeah, even though Cloud’s Buster Sword and Sephiroth’s Masamune get the spotlight