By King O’Keefe

It doesn’t matter what your goal is, saving a princess, mowing down the minions of hell or simply travelling through a post apocalyptic wasteland. It’s the weapons that matter. It’s how you slice and explode your way through the fools standing in your way.

So my friends, this is my opinion for top 10 gaming weapons in history.

1.Master Sword – The Legend of Zelda

It is alternatively known as “The Blade of Evil’s Bane“. The Zelda series is great for many reasons, from the dungeons, to the music, boss battles and just the entire feel of the game. But the thing that sets it off is that you (Yes, you!) are the hero. At any point in time the game might take place you are born a hero and this same blade  has travelled through the ages to be wielded by you. The same blade that sliced through beasties 100 years ago is the same one you wield to do the same job and free a kingdom from doom.

You know it as well as I do, the Master Sword makes you feel like such a hero. And that is why it takes first place.

2.BFG 9000 (Big Fucking gun!) – DOOM

Once named “One Of The most brilliantly disguised acronyms in video game history!” Forget headshots, forget shooting someone in the nuts, here we have something special. The BFG 9000 makes things pop… Enemy things to be precise. Those cyberdemons were just minding their own business when you appeared and shot a big green glob of gibbing into their face. To say the least; they were not too impressed, but you know you had a big grin on your face.

3.Chainsaw – Any game with a CHAINSAW in it!

Nothing replaces the feeling of cutting someone into many pieces. Doesn’t matter what game your playing, Doom, GTA, Conker’s BFD, the chainsaw murks them all. You pussies can use your “Kill everyone in 1 shot” weapons. Awww come on, you know you love it too. The chainsaw happy slices the opposition to make it to number 3 in my list.

4.Portal Gun – Portal (The Orange Box.)

It was a triumph… Sorry, couldn’t resist. But seriously, if you’re in a tight spot what else do you need? It’s rare to find a gun that never loses its appeal through-out an entire game, even more impressive when it’s the only gun in the game. A second reason would be because this certain gun was one you could simply have fun with and mess around with mid-game. And finally, the last reason why it makes the list for me is because how much we’d really love one of these guns in real life. Put a portal in your living room and another in the pub and you are sorted!

5.Crowbar – Half-life 1+2

As simple as a weapon can get, nothing special about it, no powering it up or any kind of silly spin attacks. The Crowbar was a beast at what it does best, cracking skulls and being a no-bullshit-taking-bad-ass-bar-of-metal. Another reason it makes the list is because it is the symbol for one of the greatest shooters I have played. Valve knows this too as, when their teaser ads for Half-life 2 first appeared in magazines simply showing a crowbar standing up with a shadow being careful to complete the number ’2′ with no words or names anywhere on the page, anyone who had played the first game just knew what this meant.

6.Lightening/Shuriken Gun – PainKiller

A weapon loved by even the harshest of game critics on the Internet because of its sheer wild awesome factor. This gun from a game with no other goal apart from ‘Kill everyone that looks alive.’ just took guns to a new level. Sure, Painkiller was a great game with a lot of fantastic weapons but this one takes the cake. Some ghoul in your way? Fire some shurikens into that gits face! Still not going down? Blast that sucker with lightening and watch him fry. Truly awesome.

7.RailGun – Quake 2

The lovely Railgun was the ultimate skill-based player’s dream which is why I think it deserves a mention. Quake 2 added much wanted depth to FPS games with trick moves and ways to greatly speed up movement (Which was actually never intended by developers!). Clearly there’s nothing like battling at a speed of 50mph racing for the Armour you so desperately need when that spiral trail suddenly appears in the air and you turn into some leftover human bits. Well, it’s ten times sweeter when you’re the one pulling that trigger.

8.Gravity Gun – Half-Life 2

When Half-Life 2 introduced the gravity gun, all of a sudden things changed. Now you’re picking up toilets to shield yourself from bullets. Saw blades became deadly weapons. Exploding Barrels, a stereotypical FPS mainstay, were stationary and boring in past games – but when held up by the physics-enabled Gravity Gun, they offered up a great new way to destroy your enemies. And if you didn’t have a barrel of fun with this weapon… you’re weird.

9.Fat Man – Fallout 3

Fuck yeah! Nukes! Portable ones at that! This giant of a weapon was your way to ensure that no wasteland beast would bite your nipples off. Even behemoths couldn’t contend with a nuke in the face. Ever fancied a rampage around Megaton? Try doing it with the Fat Man and watch those waste-landers fly! Only problem was getting ammo and fixing the damned thing…

10.Super Shotgun – Doom 2

Taking the same ammunition as the regular shotgun and blasting out 3 times the power, this killing machine is your right hand man when a horde of imps think they can shred your face off. No way. Not without a fight! (Or 20 pellets from a blast of this bad boy in the face.) This makes the list because of how much you needed it and how safe you felt with it. I mean, what do you need to fight the minions of hell? That’s right. One tough marine and his shotgun.

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