Top most awesome video game weapons

So there's tons of top ten lists for video game weapons out there. Still I have my own take on this, so here it goes.



1. Chainsaw (Doom)
This Evil Dead inspired weapon (including the "Groovy" voiceover when picking up the weapon) embodies everything that made Doom so great. I remember in the original game it was a pretty rare item and only found in secret areas until late in the game.



2. Shotgun (every game) / Double Barreled Shotgun (Doom 2)
Not much to say about this, really. Standard in just about every shooter and rightfully so.


3. Nailgun (Quake)
This was a fun weapon in the Quake games. Very accurate and with no recoil it was the perfect weapon for spraying a room from a long distance, the only drawback being that you'd run out of ammo real fast.



4. Ripper (Dead Space)
Just when you think you have seen it all, along comes Dead Space with its somewhat goofy (yet fun) premise to "Cut off their limbs" (of the aliens you encounter, of course). Many of the unique weapons found in the game are suited to do just that, but doing the aforementioned with a remote-controlled industrial saw disc is really on top of the list.



5. Shrink Ray (Duke Nukem 3D)
Certainly one of the most fun weapons in multiplayer mode, especially when used on a large group of players. It shrinks everyone to just a few centimeters in size, so all shrinked player start scrambling for some hiding place while the rest tries to squash them under their boots.


6. Railgun (Quake III Arena)
The railguns from the Quake games were a really cool addition to the already impressive arsenal of the first game. The railgun blasts over extremely long distances and hits the exact spot where it's pointed, but it takes a lot of mastery to be successful with this weapon. Unsurprisingly, in multiplayer people use it like crazy, so if you step into a random server game, be prepared to be frizzed from all sides with accurate railgun fire.



7. Tesla Cannon (Fallout 3)
Fallout 3 has many great and fun weapons. So many, in fact, that sometimes you're really at loss which one to use. The alien weapons are quite cool, as is the missile launcher, assault and sniper rifles, scoped Magnum, etc. etc. However I find myself regularly using the Tesla gun, a heavy piece of artillery which does tremendous damage and also creates a plasma ball that does continuous damage for a couple of seconds.



8. BFG 9000 (Doom)
Doom again, of course. Even though you wouldn't end up using this weapon so much, it still rules in terms of awesomeness. The strange dynamics of the weapon (it killing everything in your sight upon impact) could lead to tricky uses in the game, namely shooting inside a room and then shortly before impact moving in, utterly flattening all enemies in sight.



9. Gauss Gun (Syndicate)
Syndicate really had a great arsenal, but whenever possible I ended up equipping this rocket launcher, blowing up stuff left and right.