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Gaming’s Top Ten Guns!

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David Lynch

Take a trip with us down Memory Lane as we look at some of the very best guns throughout gaming’s history

Take a trip with us down Memory Lane as we look at some of the very best guns throughout gaming’s history. We may all have very different ideas of what constitutes a great gun, but here are some of X360’s favourite weapons to shoot up the joint with…

1. The BFG 9000
Well it couldn’t be any other than the Big F***ing Gun, the granddaddy of blowing crap up.

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2. Cerebral Bore
Big drill, meet brain. Brain meet big drill. You two are going to get on fine, I can tell.

Gaming's Top Ten Guns!

3. Pistol
The most overpowered and unbalanced weapon of the Halo series and we love it for it.

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4. Any Shotgun
In pretty much any game ever, this is our go-to gun of choice. It’ll always make a mess.

Gaming's Top Ten Guns!

5. Gravity Gun
When ammo’s running low, just throw stuff at the zombies instead. Explosive barrels, anyone?

Gaming's Top Ten Guns!

6. Thompson submachine gun
WWII wouldn’t have been the same without this little beauty. Of course that’s just in videogames. In reality this thing is horrendous.

Gaming's Top Ten Guns!

7. Rock-It Launcher
Another improvised ammo gun. Just shove a load of junk in it and watch it fly! Good job the wasteland is covered with junk.

Gaming's Top Ten Guns!

8. Portal Gun
Once again Valve shows how very good it is, with an ingenious gun that can fire portals into walls.

Gaming's Top Ten Guns!

9. Stake Gun
No, it doesn’t fire slabs of beef across the room, but massive stakes that will attach people to walls.

Gaming's Top Ten Guns!

10. Proton Pack
“Not strictly a gun, just an excuse for you to get all arty farty,” says Simon Miller. It still packs one hell of a punch.

Gaming's Top Ten Guns!

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    4 Comments »

    • bomby said:

      not bad, but i would have put the hammer of dawn or lancer in there.

    • Joe said:

      Nice list. BFG had to be top obviously.
      Thompson though? I think it sucks in the COD games as well as in real life. I go for the sten.

    • MR CODMAN1976 said:

      i agree with bomby and joe,are you off your head no lancer from gears,or any weapon in gears bow tork,bomb shot.as for the thompson it’s rubbish.

    • ItsBlack Seph said:

      How is it that they missed the Redeemer from Unreal Tournament? Any weapon that can be described as “an anti-personnel nuclear warhead” has to be in the top ten!

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