Ghost666

August 05, 2011 at 2:37pm

Kar98k from Call of Duty and Call of Duty United Offensive. Nothing like some good ol rifle action and dropping another player while he was ripping at you with an MP40.

 

I think it also needs mentioning that COD introducing iron site aiming made first person shooters even more fun to play. That addition to how you aim at someone really helps put you in the game and I'm glad it's something that caught on and is something nearly all FPS have now.  

 

Great, great times playing COD and COD UO back in the day...

SPYDER1944

August 03, 2011 at 4:08pm

Rise of the Triad (ROTT)

This game was groundbreaking as far as cool weapons were concerned. It originally was supposed to be a sequel to Wolfenstein 3D, and John Carmack provided some technical support for it, but it was designed and programmed by a team of designers working for Apogee software (they called themselves "The Designers of Incredible Power", or DIP's for short). Among them are some gaming greats (Tom Hall and Scott Miller for example.) It was released as shareware by 3D Realms and was copyrighted in 1994. Unfortunately, Doom was released at the same time and became so popular that it pretty much killed this game's sales. It is still available for free (shareware version) and the full version (Both ported to run under Windows), from the 3D Realms website. It is still a blast to play today, even considering the antiquated graphics.

Any of these weapons should have been included in this article: Firebomb, Drunk Missle, Heat Seeker, Flamewall, Split Missle, Excalibat, and Dark Staff. BTW, this is the first game I know of that optionally  allowed you to hit a key and see your missles path in first person perspective as it flew towards your target.

 

gofuyose

July 12, 2011 at 4:48pm

Alright - I am pissed, and here's why.

 

The article name is completely misleading. I was expecting to see at least two guns from a game that's more than 10 years old.

25 weapons that defined FPS should include the ever so awesome Dual Neutron Disruptor from Blake Stone, the Dod damned voodoo doll from Blood, the bad ass hologram from Duke, the 'effen BFG9000 from Doom, and the super mega awesome dual uzi's from Shadow Warrior.

 

Get a clue ... THESE DEFINED FPS GAMES AS WE KNOW IT - BloodStorm? Seriously?

Ceadderman

June 29, 2011 at 2:49am

How can you name ANYTHING from Half Life and not mention the first thing about the Swarm Gun. That thing created a lot of headaches for the guys sent to kill me when I played. I'd sit outside the choke point and start bouncing those things around watching them kill the soldiers as they ran for cover. What was strangely satisfying about it was that it was a biological entity that never ran out of ammunition.

It was so good that Valve didn't include it in any further installments of the series. Shame on you for forgetting.

 

jkcheng122

June 27, 2011 at 12:53pm

How can you not mention the AWP also shot through walls and multiple targets?  I once killed 5 enemies with one shot as they were coming out of a door in one line.

Scootiep

June 26, 2011 at 7:40pm

No minigun and no flamethrower means I simply can't give this list any respect. Sure, I realize that the minigun was never the most powerful in any game, but the sound alone made me squeal in delight. And excluding flame throwers, especially the one from Serious Same? Have you people no heart? No soul?!? If they're frozen I would gladly heat them up for you!

wirehedd

June 26, 2011 at 8:01am

As noted by a number of posters this list is simply not complete without the inclusion of the BGF.

Seriously, how many other videogame weapons are there that have their own SCENE in live action movies?

While the Rock may not have made the Doom movie as great as it coiuld have been he certainly made it more interesting with the one line "That's a big fukkin' gun."

Please fix this as soon as you can and allow those of us who are publicly fans of MPC to take the paper bag of shame off our heads. :)

goarmydave

June 26, 2011 at 2:34am

I am dissapointed that none of the weapons from Gears of War made the cut. Compare the bow and arrow from Thief and the Torque Bow

COMMANDER_COOK

June 25, 2011 at 11:22pm

People still play Tribes 2 online, FYI. To do this you need the "Tribes Next" patch. It is still really fun, although I admit I am not very good at it.

cbassett01

June 25, 2011 at 9:57pm

I still like the BFG from Doom II (don't remember it's actual name but it was like an energy gun that shot out energy charges--basically killed everything around you with one shot).  Plus, what about chainsaws... They're a popular, but yet fun weapon in almost any game... at least I think they are.

aarcane

June 25, 2011 at 10:48am

DooM and DooM ][ had the rocket launcher prior to quake, and you've omitted the Toaster and the BFG 9K as well.

Edit: Also, that's the double barrel shotgun from DooM ][, not the Original Shotgun from DooM, which had only one barrel and used only one shell.

schwit

June 24, 2011 at 7:38pm

Epic fail without the chainsaw and BFG9000 from Doom.

Mighty BOB!

June 24, 2011 at 6:34pm

No BFG-9000?  For shame MPC, for shame.  Sure the Redeemer had a very similar function (and UT is awesome) but it's not the same thing at all. :P

You know, for a title that reads 25 Games, 25 Guns: The Weapons that Defined First-Person Shooters I would not have expected a lot of the more recent games to have shown up in the list that you have there.  Some, yes, but not as many as you have, because I don't think a lot of them really "defined" anything in the genre by influencing how it unfolded in many subsequent games.  L4D?  Bulletstorm?  Hardly definining by any stretch; they're too new for us to know their historical impact on firearms in later titles.

Now of course I will contradict myself and say no Lancer from Gears?  It has a chainsaw!

-=GNO=-

June 24, 2011 at 3:58pm

What about the glowing rebar crossbow from HL2?  I always enjoyed the one shot, one kill of that thing.

CRHTech

June 24, 2011 at 2:40pm

Why is this called 25 Games, 25 Guns? Why not 25 Weapons or 25 things that we like in the games? A flashlight seriously. A crowbar and if that is like a lightsaber then why not mention the actual lightsaber?

mattd390

June 24, 2011 at 2:15pm

I miss the spinfusor from tribes.  That game was pretty fun.  I am suprised that the Lancer from GOW didn't make the list. 

tri8gman

June 24, 2011 at 1:20pm

The Cerebral Bore from Turok 2

 

Nothing was more terrifying in multiplayer than hearing this sound.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEKLa373SIw

codepath

June 24, 2011 at 10:15am

The shrink gun from Duke3D was awesome!

EAT SHOE, MUTHAFUCKER!

smithbd01

June 24, 2011 at 10:11am

Really loved the amount of damage a PPC on a Mech could do in any of the versions of Mechwarrior.  I can't really understand why you would leave out some games and double up on the Bow and Arrow.  I also really liked the Railgun in Heavy Gear.  (Heavy Gear was Mechwarrior on speed).

I like the tech FPS vs the old school stuff, one of the reasons Battlefield whatever version hasn't really inspired me.

Love the Thumper in Planetside, and Rocklet as well.

Not many play these games but I don't care what others think.

MaximumMike

June 24, 2011 at 8:54am

I cannot give you enough thanks for not including a single weapon from what is the worst and most over-rated FPS of all time, Halo! A million thanks for not mentioning that piece of crap game.

T0mmy1977

June 24, 2011 at 8:43am

And don't forget the trusty Sentry Gun from Team Fortress Classic!

Ghok

June 24, 2011 at 8:38am

The weapons I remember most are from the games I played a lot. Unreal Tournament had some great ones. I thought Jedi Knight did too.

bjtalbot

June 24, 2011 at 7:41am

The Prey bow and arrow? Serriously?

The Doom 3 Flashlight? Serriously?

What a troll article.

Marthian

June 24, 2011 at 12:01am

why is bow and arrows listed twice?

smashingpumpin

June 23, 2011 at 8:34pm

Where the heck is the beloved Railgun from Quake universe, the birth of "Instagib" mods!? 

RtDK

June 23, 2011 at 8:12pm

"What's that, you say? A flashlight is not a gun?"

Well, no, it's not--but I figure since half your LIST already wasn't I was gonna let that one slide too. 'Cause y'know, guns generally launch projectiles--crowbars and swords definitely launch no projectiles, and I'm not sure bow-and-arrows count as "guns" either since they're manual. In fact, the flashlight *is* closer to a gun than half these things. Photons might not do any damage, but at least the flashlight is launching something.

mario_ramalho

June 23, 2011 at 7:27pm

Of all of these, (and i've played the majority of them), i still prefer Delta Force's trusty old .50 cal Sniper Rifle. Might as well be a hand-held cannon!

 

ThunderBolt

June 23, 2011 at 7:05pm

Flak Canon from Unreal

Shotgun from Soldier of Fortune!!!!

RUSENSITIVESWEETNESS

June 23, 2011 at 6:41pm

God, Tribes 2 was such a great game. I'd still be playing it if those anus jockeys from 5150 hadn't hacked the game into their own personal lube factory.

Rogue74

June 23, 2011 at 6:24pm

Where's the lightsaber...? Freeze gun from Duke Nukem 3d? Has the writer only been playing FPS games for 10 years?

dgrmouse

June 23, 2011 at 5:27pm

Quake wasn't the first FPS to feature missile weapons.  Rise of the Triad had like 5 different kinds of rocket launchers, and there are many others.

Psicose

June 23, 2011 at 5:25pm

Serious Bomb in Serious Sam: Second Encounter.