TOP 10 most unusual weapons in games: a gun that makes enemies dance, a depressed sword and a fork created by God

Gamers are used to shooting at enemies with boring machine guns, shotguns and sniper rifles. However, sometimes developers manage to create weapons that surprise and remain in the memory for a long time. For example, no matter how gamers feel about Cyberpunk 2077, many people loved Skippy's smart gun — fans even recreated it in reality. In this collection, we have collected the most unusual weapons from games that will impress even an experienced gamer. Go!

The long-suffering Cyberpunk 2077 is still full of problems: bugs are still encountered, Night City is depressingly lifeless, and there has been no variability. However, there were things in the game that worked great from the very beginning: take Skippy's smart gun, for example.

Walking around the neon-lit city, you can find a lot of interesting things. For example, in one of the alleys there is a corpse, and next to it an unusual cannon. As soon as you pick it up, a hologram of a funny bullet will fly out of it and start chatting.

In the heat of battle, the gun shares information about how long the brain can survive, being cut off from the body, threatens to tear enemies to shreds and gets satisfaction from killings — there will be no dull moment in a shootout. In peacetime, Skippy sings songs, finds out why you maim people and not kill, and changes the «Cold-Blooded Killer» mode to «Pacifism and Puppies».

Skippy is full of sarcasm and makes cruel jokes at V's expense more than once, but this is what makes him come alive. By the end, the gun will become a friend, and giving it back to its owner will be sad.

Duke Nukem, whose best game recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, has a lot of cool guns in his arsenal. In Duke Nukem 3D, the brutal man could hit his enemies with a freezer, radio-controlled grenades, homing missiles or, in the end, a leather boot. But the hero's most famous weapon is the Shrinker aka Shrinker.

The alien invaders look impressive: tall, bulging biceps, a creepy face and a huge machine gun in their hands. However, as soon as you shoot from the Shrinker, they will turn into small and harmless crumbs for 11 seconds. Duke will only have to come closer and crush them like a rat. With such a weapon, it's interesting to mock enemies even in the disastrous Duke Nukem Forever.

In the Plutonium PAK add-on, the Microwave Inflator modifier has been added to the cannon. On the contrary, he enlarged the monsters to such an indecent size that they simply exploded. It would be more likely that Duke would return and again please gamers with luxurious weapons.

The series about the adventures of Ratchet and Clank has been impressing gamers with unusual guns since 2002. In Ratchet & Clank for PS4 gave gamers the opportunity to go all out. You can ruin your enemies' plans with the help of the Pixelizer, which turns enemies into two-dimensional creatures, the Ovcenizer, which turns the target into a sheep, or Quack-o-ray, which replaces villains with cute ducks. But the funniest gadget was the Kayfotron.

On the way, Ratchet had to make his way more than once through crowds of dangerous creatures. It will be easier to fight if... you light them up with dance. Throw a disco ball onto the battlefield and watch your enemies start dancing. Each opponent has their own movements — this made gamers curious to find out how robots, frogs or humanoids dance.

In the gorgeous Rift Apart, you can use the GROB cannon to open portals and summon creatures from other Sony universes into Ratchet's world. Even the mighty Thunderbird from Horizon Zero Dawn can come to the light.

Fighters for morality can criticize Postal 2 as much as they want, but no one forced gamers to organize a massacre on the streets of Paradise. If the Dude came to the bank for money and got into a long line, it is not necessary to pour gasoline on the citizens, shoot the employees and take the money from the vault by force. To complete the task, you can simply... wait. Has anyone done this? Hardly. It's much more fun to piss on passers-by, blow off a couple of heads with a shovel, and then put a cat on a machine gun. What can you do, these are the silencers in Postal 2.

The silencer itself is not an unusual weapon, but it made any gun original. Not long ago we interviewed the creators of Postal and found out who came up with this trick with cats.

There were also plenty of other strange weapons in Postal. You can use a cow's head, a dirty sock, a frying pan, or even... the Dude's penis against enemies and civilians. I wonder what the developers will surprise gamers with in the fourth part?

What kind of instruments of death have not the developers from Gearbox come up with? For example, in Borderlands 2 there is a Morgenstern sniper rifle, which, although it doesn't rap, also hurts. During the shooting, she scolds the hero and calls on him to stop. «Do you feel remorse? And I — yes! As soon as you kill the enemy, the rifle will say: “Someone is now orphaned because of you.” In Borderlands 3, the authors went even further: as a reward for completing the quest, you will receive a cannon... that fires cannons.

You got it right: instead of bullets, the fabricator shoots with another weapon. For 10 units of eridium, it spits out ten cannons. You can also switch it to “legendary» mode and pay 250 eridium per shot with a particularly powerful weapon. The perfect way to diversify your arsenal!

Prey is a great game in which the treasured pack of cartridges on the table can turn into a mimic monster, the Nightmare darting around locations is no less frightening than the Tyrant, and the story intrigues until the very end. And there is also a GIPS gun, which has become an indispensable ally of Morgan Yu.

With the help of a GIPS gun, you can immobilize any enemy and calmly hammer him with a wrench or pave the way to the far corner of the map. With the help of weapons it is not difficult to build a bridge, stairs or other structure — without this thing the hero would be stuck in the first locations.

Another interesting innovation from Prey is the disposal grenade. It turns trash, a closet blocking a passage, or even enemies into useful craftable items. The main thing is to stay away from her, otherwise the hero will also turn into a handful of materials. Trophy hunters also know that self-disposal is rewarded with an achievement. Sorry Morgan, it's nothing personal!

Walking around the huge city of Nikitaka in Pillars of Eternity 2, you can wander into a mysterious dungeon. There, not only quests and powerful enemies await the heroes, but also the unusual talking sword Modvir. Modvir doesn't talk much at first, but the more you use him, the stronger and more talkative he becomes. It soon turns out that the previous owner threw away the blade and caused him severe pain. Now the sword is depressed...

It turned out that the former owner was once an animator and was involved in bringing things to life. One day she gave Modvir a soul. Alas, soon the horrors of animantics shocked her, and the lady began to fight with her former comrades — but the shame of her past life and the shed blood burned from the inside. Then she threw away the sword in the hope that with it all the atrocities committed would be forgotten.

There are many interesting quests in Pillars of Eternity 2, but Modvir's task is one of the most touching. And the characteristics of the weapon are so good that you can forget about other blades.

The face of Half-Life 2's arsenal is considered to be the gravity gun and the crowbar, but there were other interesting weapons in the game. After Gordon kills a large antlion, he receives a feropod, referred to as a «bait» by the resistance fighters. The feropod is a sac of glands that attracts antlions. At the Sand Traps location, the silent hero receives an endless supply of such shells. Now he can safely throw them at the alliance fighters and admire how the enemies are attacked by deadly creatures. This is much more interesting than throwing boring grenades at villains.

It is curious that the weapon only works until the end of the Nova Prospekt chapter. Even if you use the console to call antlions to other locations and throw feropods, they will not react to it and will attack Gordon. But the item will always be able to immobilize Alliance soldiers, making them vulnerable — an accurate throw will make them brush off the emerging cloud while the hero takes aim.

The mighty Daedra are some of the most mysterious creatures in the Elder Scrolls universe, and Sheogorath is the craziest of them all. He once created a Tickle Fork, which seems useless, but crowds of followers fanatically dream of finding it.

In Morrowind, you can take a quest from the statue of Sheogorath, in which the god tells the hero to take a fork and rush into battle with a giant netsch animal. The fork does little damage, and the enemy's health is great. The Prince of Madness can be outwitted if you fight with nothing with a mighty sword, and finish it off with cutlery. The Daedra will repay the feat with truly powerful weapons.

Titanfall 2 is a great first-person shooter that has a rich storyline and dynamic multiplayer. On one of the missions, the pilot received a smart pistol, capable of aiming itself at the heads of opponents and delivering spectacular headshots. Many gamers loved the episode when the hero had to quickly run along the walls, show the wonders of parkour and at the same time shoot soldiers from a miracle gun. It's a pity that we weren't allowed to shoot with such weapons to our heart's content.

But in multiplayer, the smart pistol was disliked even from the first Titanfall. Even a skilled gamer could meet a noob on the battlefield and die after a couple of homing shots. Fortunately, in the sequel it is not so easy to acquire it: you first need to reach level 42, and then spend 60 units of energy to use it.

A mention of a smart pistol was also found in the Apex files. Is it possible that the gimbal cannon will soon appear in the battle royale in the Titanfall universe?

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Many unusual weapons are found in other games. Kratos can stop enemies with the Gorgon's head. In Serious Sam you will be able to shoot from a huge cannon with cannonballs. The saw cutter from Dead Space easily cut off the limbs of necromorphs. In the upcoming Far Cry 6, which we talked a lot about, you will be able to assemble a weapon that not only shoots, but also loses to the Macarena.

Which original guns do you remember most? Write in the comments!