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Dec 04 2008

Guns Blazing: More soon

Published by vodstok under Weapons Edit This

I didn’t want to leave anyone hanging, today has just been busy. I will be posting more guns a little later, then I may take a break from that for a few days to talk about other things (there are some movie monsters that have been burning a hole in my pocket lately) so things don’t get stale, and I don’t get accused of being a gun nut or anything.

Weapons that are supposed to be cool, but really aren’t (I’m looking at you, Star Trek….). That should not be too hard to do. Maybe I can even find some bad YouTube clips. See you a little later.

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Dec 03 2008

Guns Blazing: Day 2

Published by vodstok under Weapons Edit This

So yesterday we did one real weapon and 3 made-up ones, and I think that format works nicely, so we’ll do it again. Today’s features real weapon is the FN P-90. Stargate (the TV series) and Counter-Strike fans will be familiar with this one:

FN P-90

It is about as “Sci-fi” as a real world submachinegun gets. It carries 50 rounds, fires at a high rate of speed, and its ammunition has a greater penetration than any other pistol round available today (without getting into specifically armor-piercing rounds). Its not Metal Storm, but its a hell of a lot lighter.

But keeping with the idea of high rate of fire and compactness, lets look at these:

F.E.A.R.’s Penetrator

F.E.A.R.’s Penetrator

Despite the suggestive name, this weapon kicks serious ass. It fires small spears very fast, and can very quickly make an enemy look like a porcupine. The best thing is if they are close to a wall, they are literally nailed to it. I have had quite a few laughs killing clone soldiers in the game and seeing the weird positions they wind up in after getting massacred by this thing.

Crysis’ SMG

SMG

Admittedly, the first time I played through Crysis, I didn’t even bother with this one. I had an assault rifle and a shotgun, why in hell did I need to trade one for something with less power? Well, the second time through I got my answer. You can deck the SMG out with a laser pointer, sniper scope and silencer. Sounds like overkill for a close quarters weapon?

And How! Its awesome. The SMG has a higher rate of fire than the other weapons in the game, so closing in on an evil KPA soldier, you can put 20 rounds through his head in the blink of an eye, which makes them pretty dead most of the time.

Grammaton Cleric Sidearm

I decided to finish with a movie weapon again. Although never given an actual name in the movie, John preston’s guns in Equilibrium are wonders of weaponry. Most of the Clerics in the movie carry one, but Preston has two. They are modified Beretta 92Fs, made to fire automatically, plus some visual changes. In Preston’s hands, they make for about the most incredible gunfights, ever. They fire a burst of bullets every time he squeezes the trigger, and hide nicely in the sleeves of his jacket. he also has an auto-loader in there that will slip a new clip in when he runs out.

John Preston defines “Gun Fighter”.

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Dec 02 2008

Guns Blazing

Published by vodstok under Weapons Edit This

The world of entertainment is filled with guns. While in real life, guns can be cool; we have some that seem straight out of science fiction :

But by and large, guns are only really cool to enthusiasts who occasionally go to a range to kill all manner of paper creatures. In the not so real world though, there are more than any one person could imagine and they do things that we could only hope to accomplish in real life.

Some are just variations of regular guns, often in the hands of someone who turns them from merely cool guns into ass-kicking weapons of bloodshed and awesomeness, like John Preston from Equilibrium.

John preston, Grammaton Cleric from Equilibrium

Some movies, and a lot of games take the time to dream up their own weapons of death and awesomeness, so here are a few notable examples:

Portal’s Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (Portal Gun)

Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device

Not your standard offensive device, but definitely one of the coolest guns ever, It allows you to create dimensional doors in walls floors and ceilings and move through them, drop objects through them… well that’s pretty much it, but you’d be amazed at how much freedom that lame description allows you. I recommend downloading Steam and getting the demo for Portal if you have never played it.

Half Life 2’s Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator (Gravity Gun)

Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator

The gravity gun in HL2 changed the way many of us saw gaming.After using it, i was no longer content to leave things lying around in the game world; I wanted to pick things up and kill things with them. Luckily, Valve software saw fit to make this a replacement of sorts for the crowbar used in the original game. This was a good choice. I still maintain there is nothing better in online gaming than killing someone with a toilet.

Aliens’ M-40 A 1

M41A Pulse Rifle

Jim Cameron set the bar for unique weapons in science fiction movies with Aliens. This is the coolest military weapon to date created for a movie, in my opinion. I carries 100 rounds of case-less ammunition (the kind Metal Storm uses, over a decade before Metal Storm existed), has a grenade launcher, and immediately makes anyone holding it look like a bad-ass. By the end of the movie, it turns whiny crybaby Hudson into a mad killing machine. As a movie gun, it has yet to see it’s equal.

These are just the tip of the iceberg. I will elaborate and post more, but for now, i need to keep my day job, so back to work. Wink

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