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A gun that uses various types of grenades as ammunition.
Considered one of the most frequent and controversial implements of destruction in video games and real life, guns are devices that fire projectiles with explosive force.
Health packs restore some amount of a players health, and can be permanent or temporary. They come packaged in a variety of forms, from the common med kit, to drugs, medicine, and even food.
Whether it's worn for protection or style, helmets appear in various game genres.
First introduced in Quake II, The Hyperblaster is a rapid firing laser weapon from the Quake franchise.
A keycard is a plastic card with a magnetic strip, chip, or other circuitry, programmed to allow passage through locked doors. May also require a passcode or password of some kind.
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.
Often used as either a weapon or in a weapon and also used often times as a weather effect, lightning is seen in several games. Called "thunder" in some games, even though thunder is the sound that lightning makes.
Machine guns, generally, are heavier weapons with a rapid rate of fire. To quote the Quake manual, they "eat ammo like popcorn."
Mechs (or Mecha) are humanoid-like pilot driven vehicles often depicted in media as a combat machine. Early examples of Mech/Mecha in video games are often derived from early manga and anime as well as table-top games.
A corpse (excluding undead) that has been maimed in a grizzly manner. A common decorative in castle dungeons.
Primary weapon for the Soldier in Team Fortress 2. Promotional item received for pre-ordering Quake 4 on Steam.
A tube or hollow cylinder for the conveyance of fluid, gas, and sometimes other materials.
A radiation suit is often used to shield a player's health from the deadly effects of various hazards.
Rail tracks, which are also known as Train tracks, railway, or simply tracks, are the rails which guide trains. There are many types of tracks that are used for different types of trains around the world.
A type of weapon that fires a conductive projectile to incredible speeds, using kinetic energy rather than explosive force.
Railgun slugs are often made with radioactive materials.
A mechanical lifeform, typically exhibiting superhuman abilities, that can be found in games as either the main protaganist or as powerful enemies or allies.
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.
A hand tool with a toothed blade that is used for cutting and musical purposes.
The saw blade can be used as a weapon by the player or the enemy. Saw blades may also appear as traps or obstacles.
Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
Games that feature a heads that have been removed from their body. Occasionally, these heads are able to continue living, even after being separated from their body.
Severed limbs are objects in video games that fall off of characters, often from explosions, gunshots,and melee weapons.
The most powerful weapon at short range. Effective against Zombies, Nazis, Demons, etc. Videogame shotguns tend to have exaggerated inaccuracy at long range- real life shotguns are still fairly accurate over a decent distance, while videogame shotguns rarely go more than fifteen feet before becoming completely ineffective.
The topmost bone in the human body, it contains the brain and the eyes, and is generally considered a good thing to keep intact.
Spikes are dangerous and often deadly obstacles that can line the floor, walls, or ceiling of any given room or passageway. They are an extremely common form of environmental hazard, particularly in side-scrolling games.
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