What Do You Think Was The Best Weapon in Shooter History?

[ssgt splatter]

The Lancer. I'd love to see the Lancer in a FPS view-point like COD4, chainsaw kill and all.

{EDIT}...And so would the rest of you, I know it.

 

[CtrlAltD1337]

Either the Genocide Gun from Earth Defense Force 2017 (Instant kill 150 yard diameter explosion)

Can't remember the name, but it shoots black holes, and it's from Turok: Shadow of Oblivion

The SAA. Metal Gear Solid Series (This gun, is the best. gun. ever.)

ANY of the Missle Launchers from EDF 2017, because they would home in on the nearest target,
and in cases when they couldnt hit them and just spiralled around, it looked really cool once there was about 70 of them going around.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

The brick from Timesplitters: Future Perfect. There's almost nothing sweeter than getting a ricochet headshot on a second fool with a brick.

 

[skcseth]

Any minigun, but especially the one in RE5. It sends your accuracy to s**t, but man is it fun to use on the higher difficulties.

 

[GonzoGamer]

I was thinking about this after the "best grenades" thread from last week; was that you?

Best FPS gun:
The Redeemer from Unreal Tournament

Best TPS gun:
Minigun from GTA San Andreas

A close runner up for both:
The Rock It Launcher from Fallout 3. Not very powerful but I just love shooting books and mutilated body parts at people.

 

[WittyName]

The RY3NO from Ratchet and Clank 3.

Just press the fire button to see every enemy in front of you get turned into ashes.

EDIT: Apart from bosses.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

Halo 1 Pistol or Halo 2 Battle Rifle. I'm leaning towards Battle Rifle, since most matches that weren't BR starts were won and lost based upon how well you controlled the Battle Rifle spawns.

 

[Kajt]

The Rock-It Launcher.

You can blow some ones head off by shooting a teddy bear at it.

 

[MugiwaraNoLuffy]

Cerebral Bore.
Thank you, N64 Turok. Thank you.

 

[timmytom1]

The Search button. There are multiple instances of things ridiculously similar to this thread here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.87564#1320997], here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.103621#1612977], here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.108895#1848375], here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.107979#1808200], and here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.105079#1680304].

@topic
Gravity Gun. Beat a zombie to death with a mattress and tell me otherwise.

How about with a toilet or saw blade???

 

[Rajin Cajun]

Painkiller, hands down flat out, the only thing that compares shoots black holes (Quake 4 )

JFK Reloaded had the best gun ever mostly because you could recreate shooting JFK with a shitty Italian bolt-action. Now they just need to make Lincoln Must Die and the greatness of video games would be reached.

By recreate you mean its an utterly impossible blocked shot that never could have happened ? I remember GMTV (Jesus if early morning telly can smell the BS in the JFK assassination WTF were they thinking.) getting an ex SAS markmanship trainer to make the shot with a zeroed ('Oswalds' wasnt) with a clear LOS he barely hit the car nevermind the pres's head

Pfft who cares I got to make JFK's head explode.

 

[Outamyhead]

Shark canon, or upside down bomb definitely cool and funny as heck at the same time.

 

[Count_de_Monet]

I was always partial to the alien weapons in Half-Life 1.