High-Powered Crossbow, Semi-Automatic Sniper Rifle, or a Sci-Fi Sniper?

[Mirroga]

I would assume most of the gamers here in the Escapist at least played a single FPS / TPS game. The very first time you get your hands-on on the game's version of a sniper, contentment ensues every time you get a single-hit headshot kill.

Now I ask you, which version of a game's sniper gave you the most wonderful pleasure of power and silent kills? Give the reason why as well as which game it came from?


As for me, I loved Bioshock's Crossbow. Reasons are as follows:
- Enough kick to kill any non-Big Daddy enemy with 2 body shots in the hardest difficulty
- An upgrade makes bolts tougher so as to retrieve unbroken bolts to use them once again against other victims
- 3 types of different ammo: Steel-bolt, Incendiary-bolt, Trap-bolt
- Looks so gosh-darn cool when fully upgraded.

 

[Willwillwritehiswill]

Fallout 3's sniper rifle was very satisfying. Especially the time i was infiltrating a raider base in the dead of night, picking off sentries and splattering their heads with that satisfying noise.

Edit: and the gauss rifle. aaaawwwww yeeeaaaaaaah

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

I love a good ol' bolt action sniper rifle.
Wave G'bye to yer head, wanka!

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Sci-Fi sniper
Well I'm a huge Sci-fi fan so what do you think XD

 

[Zimbum]

Ah, I love mowing down dudes with crossbows.

 

[teh.arkhon]

The crossbow from Killing Floor. Because it's so fun to shoot a bloat in the head and watch it explode ><

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Semi-Automatic. Just gotta love those. Those sci-fi guns just looks like they were on a show called "Your Gun Just Got Pimped!". The cross-bows are nice, but they're not as powerful or destructive as a good old sniper rifle.

 

[Sklyth252]

I love the GOW2 sniper rifle it pwns, I just wish it had a silencer.

 

[Time Travelling Toaster]

Classical bolt action sniper, love the reload noise.

 

[thatoneguyyouknow]

The semi-automatic sniper because I love shooting from 2 miles away.

 

[Soulgaunt]

OP: For mentioning the crossbow from Bioshock, you have gained my respect. I love that crossbow, especially when I have the chameloen tonic. Speaking of which, have you seen how big those bolts are when you get a headshot on a splicer?

 

[irishstormtrooper]

I like the crossbow in HL2, mainly because it can stick people to walls.

But, for a weapon that actually has decent amounts of ammo, I would have to say the M95 from Battlefield: Bad Company. It looks cool, has a nice kick, and generally is fun to use.

 

[Wadders]

I love the Precision Rifle from Crysis on PC. The sound it makes is music to my ears, and it just looks so damn cool

Spoiler

Also the Springfield M1903 in any game (but mainly DoD: Source and CoD:W@W) is just so satisfying to use, as well as having a totally classic look.

 

[dannyboi1236]

PTRS-41 from COD 5

 

[teutonicman]

I thought the halo human sniper rifle was pretty cool with the screen.

 

[Croaker42]

Tier 3 sniper in BF2
Power in the simple bolt action way.

 

[Biek]

I prefer the bolt action rifles over semi-auto.

One shot, one kill.

 

[Tairan]

defently the crossbow in half life; it would sting a lot and ammo pleantyfall all u have to do is heat up an iron rod

 

[Mirroga]

OP: For mentioning the crossbow from Bioshock, you have gained my respect. I love that crossbow, especially when I have the chameloen tonic. Speaking of which, have you seen how big those bolts are when you get a headshot on a splicer?

Pretty much. Those are some fat bolts. Must be painful if they were not killed in 1 hit

 

[Beefcakes]

The M4OA3 from COD4, mmmm, can't get much better than that for me
But I loved no scoping with the sniper rifle in Red Faction: Guerilla, it was the same accuracy no matter how scoped you were, and headshots were easy as pie, is pie is very very easy
I was using it as a freakin' shotgun at one stage, it looks just freakin' cool...