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A ladder is used to gain access to higher or lower ground. Also used as a weapon in most wrestling games.
A laser is a focused beam of light, invisible through the air without some other medium (such as smoke) to illuminate it. Lasers are often used in video games as part of a targeting system, or as an offensive weapon in their own right.
Lava is molten rock, usually from the interior of a planet, and in games is often used as a hazard to players, or as a visible gameplay-area boundary.
Machine guns, generally, are heavier weapons with a rapid rate of fire. To quote the Quake manual, they "eat ammo like popcorn."
A spring loaded box which holds ammunition for a firearm. Often referred to as a "clip" although this is not technically correct.
Magazines for reading, not shooting; reading and looking.
A map is a drawing on a piece of paper, or other surface, that indicates the locations of various landmarks.
Meat is the edible flesh of animals. It is often seen restoring the health of adventurers and annoying vegans.
These glowing silver balls are a godsend in the later missions in the Doom series. Pick one up and your health and armor both immediately shoot up to 200 percent.
Reflects light.
A corpse (excluding undead) that has been maimed in a grizzly manner. A common decorative in castle dungeons.
An apparatus that fires nails or rivets. Not always designed as a weapon, but most often used as one.
A form of jellied gasoline that when lit on fire can stick to targets as it burns.
Night Vision Goggles are used by armed forces and other military personnel to allow the user to see clearly in dark or even pitch-black areas.
An office chair is a chair that is designed for use at a desk in an office.
From an item container in Final Fight, to Roper's favorite weapon in Double Dragon, and even an obstacle in Street Fighter II's elusive bonus round, the barrel is one multi-faceted game object.
PDAs (or Personal Digital Assistants) are handheld computers and have many uses.
A pentagram is a five-pointed star drawn using five straight lines. Though pentagrams have a variety of meanings, in video games they are most often seen upside-down, as symbols of the occult and evil.
A pistol is a very basic hand-held side arm, usually used in case of low ammo or tricky situations. They have appeared in many types of games.
This is a specific ammunition for plasma weapons, when they don't contain internal ammo.
The Plasma Gun launches plasma by using controlled magnetic fields. Plasma weaponry is used throughout the Imperium despite the possibility of the weapon overheating and killing the plasma gunner.
The Plasma Rifle uses plasma technology firing directed energy bolts instead of projectile ammunition.
Power armor (also referred to as a powered exoskeleton) is a form of full-body armor, that uses electronics and micromachinery to enhance the wearer's performance.
A radiation suit is often used to shield a player's health from the deadly effects of various hazards.
A type of weapon that fires a conductive projectile to incredible speeds, using kinetic energy rather than explosive force.
A type of armor featured in various First Person Shooters.
An explosive ordinance propelled by a chemical reaction that causes a controlled explosion resulting in thrust. Rockets are usually "dumb" weapons, meaning that they are not guided. Rockets are the most powerful projectile in many games.
A weapon that launches rockets.
As the name suggests, this is a shotgun whose barrel has been sawed off closer to the firing chamber to make it more portable. It has a much shorter range, but is easy to manoeuvre and is easy to conceal.
The ultimate weapon attachment that uses telescope optics to enlarge distant targets thus increasing your accuracy.
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