8 devastating video game weapons with beastly power: fire, explosions and total mayhem

The industry hasn’t stopped offering us creative ways to blow up our enemies.

Videogames have given us endless incredible stories with which to connect with ourselves as gamers; Deep stories that lead us to consider the roots of our own existence, that delicately explore our feelings, we have accompanied memorable characters on trips full of emotions, they have made us laugh and even brought us tears, but if there is something that they have especially given weapons , many weapons!

Swords, pistols, rifles; There are many types, but some are characterized as especially powerful and even devastating. Is seeing things blown up in the air that we love? It is clear that when it comes to weapons in video games we always want them to be bigger and wilder. Today we wanted to collect some of those that have given us greater satisfaction when unleashing their power or from which we have fled in terror with examples from a wide variety of emblematic sagas, such as the mythical Duke Nukem 3D , or more recent games such as the Destiny series .

The genre of shooters in first person was one of the first to start escalating destruction and we presented some weapons like Duke Nukem 3D Devastator; the impressive dual missile launcher that, unlike most of its namesakes in other games, this one boasts an incredible rate of fire. It is capable of launching ten projectiles per second as if it were a real missile machine gun. In addition, it can carry almost a hundred incendiary missiles that will take care of unleashing chaos wherever we go, can you think of something better than a missile machine gun? two missile machine guns, of course.

The folks at Epic Games marveled us at their famous Unreal Tournament with another jaw-dropping weapon, another past missile launcher with unparalleled destructive power and guided firing. He is none other than the Redeemer. A portable thermonuclear warhead launcher that could either be launched in a linear way assuming the risk of falling into the enormous radius of its expansive wave , or we could opt for what was most satisfying to us: find a safe place to fire it and guide its remote control tour. A satisfying and powerful weapon that reminded us to a great extent of the famous Nikita missile launcher with which Hideo Kojimahe knew how to conquer us in Metal Gear Solid .

The thing about launching missiles without measure seems to like when it comes to creating machines of destruction and Destiny, the successful Bungie shooter has a good collection of them under its belt, although none as precious by the players as the exotic Gjallarhorn . It owes its name to the horn of Heimdal , the guardian of Asgard who will announce the Ragnarök in Norse Mythology and do not think that this name is too big for him because when it is present, the Ragnarök seems to fall short before the rain of explosions that it unleashes. Target-chasing cluster missiles in a weapon so beautiful and convenient to use that it became a must-haveof the game. Their impact on the community became so high that you could have serious problems finding equipment if you didn’t have one of them in your inventory.

But when it comes to missiles and nuclear weapons, the Fallout series couldn’t fail when it came to destruction. Our favorite post-apocalyptic fifties franchise introduced us to the Gordo , a portable pre-war weapon that is capable of dropping small nukes in a straight line. As if this weapon wasn’t terrifying enough, it has a version called the experimental MIRV , capable of dropping no less than eight nuclear bombs at the same time. It is so powerful that, if we throw the full load under our feet, our character’s corpse would reach the maximum height of the stage, colliding with the limit of the game.

Clearly, big explosions are unrivaled when it comes to crafting a terrifying weapon, though not all powerful weapons have always been large and heavy. In 1997 Rare released for Nintendo 64 the classic GoldenEye 007 , the adaptation of the movie that gives it its name and with it one of the most impressive weapons we have seen in a shooter: the Golden Gun . The golden pistol of the assassin Francisco Scaramanga is capable of killing with a single shot regardless of the distance or the place of impact, becoming the last thing you usually see when you come across it. This mythical golden weapon had an even more dangerous version in the game, the Gold PP7, being able to inflict the same damage as the Golden Gun, but with a seven-round magazine compared to the one-shot magazine of the first model, unsurpassed.

As the player lives not only from shooters and the destructive gaps of the developers do not understand genres, we are going with one known and feared by all Super Smash Bros fans ; the hammer . Everyone’s pulse quickens as soon as we hear the melody that accompanies this terrifying tool for doing evil, the character grabs it, begins to beat compulsively, and everything he touches flies off . You can get rid of an enemy with just two hits even if it is without previous damage, being almost impossible to save a third. As the developers did not seem satisfied with such atrocity, it seemed appropriate to improve it in Brawl , their installment of Nintendo Wii, adding a golden version of it with greater power, greater speed and making it unbreakable. It seems that the gold versions is a recurring thing in video games when it comes to unleashing chaos.

Things are starting to get serious and we are going with the real queens of chaos at this party, those weapons that when you see them for the first time you can only gape while you think about what would happen if something like this were to exist. We start with the Hammer of Dawn from the Gears of War series . An orbital laser based on COG satellites that, after marking its target on the ground, launches a beam of Imulsion from the sky that devastates everything it touches . With a style reminiscent of the Sun Satellite from the classic manga and animation Akira, its powerful beam not only manages to kill any enemy that is pointed out by its laser, it has also reduced entire cities to ashes, destroying both locust and humans, so its use is often raised as a problem rather than as a solution .

Doom is a saga that has always been characterized by giving us unbridled action in the most direct and savage way possible, so it was not surprising that it is she who brings us one of the greatest forces of destruction that we have seen in video games. While the BFG-9000 , or Bio-Force weapon, is one of the most powerful weapons in FPS history, its BFG-10000 version of Doom Eternal is already big words. Located on the moon of Phobos , this gigantic version of the already large BFG crowns an entire orbital base and is the largest weapon in the series.. It is a whole station that is controlled by the 9000 version of it, amplifying its destructive power until it breaks the crust of a planet , a weapon that leaves you breathless when you use it for the first time.

Although this could be considered the most destructive weapon in the entire history of video games, there is a last one that causes much more terror and frustration when activated. Neither the devastator, nor that planetary BFG, nor even the COG laser can fill us with as much hopelessness as the blue shell from the Mario Kart series . When it comes to weapons that arouse real terror in our rivals, our old plumber and his friends were relentless.