In honor of the upcoming Bayonetta–which looks over-the-top great in its over-the-topness–and the titular heroine’s ability to attack and kill people with her hair, here’s a topic exploring alternative weapon choices for video game characters.
The weirder the better.
Dave: His name sucks big time, but Chuck D. Head of Decap Attack wields one of the more memorable conveyances of violence. That is, of course, his head. When squaring off with the game’s variety of goofy creatures, he pops off his skull and fires it at his targets.
It’s a nifty gimmick (marred a bit by the fact you could lose your head and have to break one of the item idols to find it). Also, the game is pretty great.
Adam: Dave, you just blew my mind, because no part of my brain remembered Decap Attack. I had no memory of this game. And after looking at the box art, I remembered. All of it. It WAS a fun game!
When I think of unconventional weapons, I think of Dead Rising. That game was nothing but an exercise in shopping for items that could murderize zombies in creative and bizarre ways. Sure, any sucker could go for the chainsaw or the baseball bats. The real artists, the ones with the style, would opt for… less conventional solutions.
This is what less conventional looks like.
Shopping carts. Umbrellas. The legs of a mannequin. Coat hangers. Soccer balls. With over 250 items in-game that can be used (in some way) for zombie battling, the possibilities are endless. I was always a fan of the shower head. Jam that sucker into a zombie’s head, and get ready for a red shower.
Steve: Because my love of Fallout 3 knows no boounds, i have to mention the incredibly awesome “Rock-It Launcher!” You build the thing out of useless junk, and use other acquired bits of useless junk as ammo. It also hits pretty hard. You want your vault-dwelling wanderer to dispatch his enemies with Teddy bears? Now you can! Your nomad of the wasteland low on 10mm hollowpoint rounds? Not a problem! Break out your “Rock-It! Launcher” (TM and Patent Pending) and grab your nearest coffee mug. BAM! Nothing like a dose of the ole vitamin “C” to wake a sleeping super mutant, or put him into the dirt permanent-like.
act now! Supplies are limited!
The ‘Shiskebab’ from Fallout 3, a flaming sword. Not the best weapon in the world, but it is fashioned from a lawnmower blade, gas tank, motorcycle throttle, and a pilot light.