I love guns and I love sci-fi, so naturally I love sci-fi
guns. I’ve decided to limit this list to
weapons that I’m sure I can count as such, so no lasers, etc. Here are a few honorable mentions, though.
-Megatron:
though he’s modeled after a Walther P.38, he’s definitely a laser
21. Holy Shotgun
Constantine
A beautifully ornate shotgun that fires twelve shells
smelted out of gold relics as ammunition against demons.
20. Zorg ZF-1
The Fifth Element
Fictional prop gun built around an AKS-74U. With its impractical array of assorted
weapons (including a horribly unsafe button for a self-destruct), it’s more
funny than cool. The replay feature is
particularly absurd. You want bullets
that kill in one hit, not follow the first impact. If you didn’t take someone down in the first
shot, it means you didn’t hit they guy in the right place, so this feature is
counterproductive. Still, it would be
nice to have seen more of this gun in action in the movie. Also has a 3,000 round magazine.
19. The Samaritan
Hellboy
It looks like an overweight Webley and fires four
oversized cartridges. I guess I just
have a weakness for firearms made from holy relics like melted church bells and
wood from crosses. Amusingly, Hellboy
has some special rounds made from holy water, garlic and white oak
shavings. He calls it “The woiks.”
18. Lawgiver
Dredd
A multi-purpose gun built around a real-life Glock 17. It can fire full auto, armor-piercing,
heat-seeking incendiary rounds, hi-ex, stun and silencer. All in one surprisingly compact package. Absurdly, the silencer mode involves the
barrel getting longer. The Lawgiver from
the 1995 version gets an honorable mention with its “double whammy.”
17. G.I. Joe Guns
G.I. Joe
In a unique twist on this trope, the guns in G.I. Joe
seem to be actual firearms. Characters
often refer to rounds as ammunition, and occasionally you can see them eject
casings. But they fire laser beams and
make laser sound effects: blue for Cobra and red for G.I. Joe. It doesn’t make sense, but it’s an endearing
trait of a nostalgic cartoon.
16. Bagpipe Gun
The World Is Not
Enough
A combination of two of my favorite things, plus a
flamethrower.
15. Cerberus
Gungrave
Big, cool and intimidating. I like how the cross design is worked into
the structure, and the magazine placement is neat.
14. Carrington Institute Laptop Gun
It’s a neat-looking futuristic gun that can be disguised
as a laptop. Even though it’s a firearm,
it makes an interesting laser sound effect when used. It has a generous 50-round magazine and is a
useful weapon in the game.
13. Moses Brothers Self Defense Engine Frontier Model B (Mal’s Gun)
Firefly
An attractive blend of futurism and old-fashioned style,
this gun uses a Gauss-effect with a normal hammer-fired operation to fire its
rounds. Built from a Taurus Model 85.
12. Chesluk Industries Cyclone
With its distinctive appearance, sound effect and blue muzzle flash, the Cyclone is a great addition to the game’s arsenal. It has a 50-round magazine and it’s a solid
weapon, but I imagine the bulbous shape would be awkward in real life. I don’t know how those Secret Service agents
hide those things under their form-fitting suits. Another interesting property is that it
electronically feeds rounds into an internal magazine from a futuristic clip.
11. Type 51 Carbine
HALO 2
A recoil-operated firearm, this is the only alien weapon
I know of that has an action close enough to a traditional firearm to include
on this list. Accurate and effective,
but it automatically ejects its magazine right into the user’s face!
10. M41A Pulse Rifle
Aliens
A classic. A
distinctive gun that carries 99 rounds of 10x24mm caseless armor-piercing
rounds and comes with a nifty pump-action grenade launcher. Built from a Tommy gun and a Franchi SPAS-12
Shotgun.
8. Shredder
Turok 2: Seeds of
Evil
A futuristic shotgun whose rounds bounce off walls and
cause horrifyingly gory wounds. Lots of
fun.
7. Cleric Gun
A prop built from a rapid-fire Beretta. A great-looking gun that comes with some cool
tricks like retractable spikes on its butt and weighted magazines. The Librian symbol- shaped muzzle flashes are
a nice addition, too.
6. Chesluk Industries MagSec-4
It’s horribly inaccurate (despite having a scope for some
reason) and no more powerful than the Falcon 2, but it’s effective and fun at
close range. In single-player mode it’s
wasted on a board that emphasizes long-range shooting, but you can have lots of
fun with it in Multiplayer. It makes oneof the best sounds ever and looks awesome.
Most people compare it to the Beretta Auto9, but I think it’s a
distinctive gun.
5. Misriah Armory M6D
HALO: Combat
Evolved
This unassuming pistol’s scope and accuracy made it the
most surprisingly all-round effective weapon in the game.
4. M1L1 Rotary Pulse Assault Rifle
Deep Rising
I love the idea Gatling rifles and this is the best
example I know of. Built from a Calico
submachine gun, this fictional Chinese weapon holds a physically impossible
1,000 rounds of 5.56 rounds.
3. Violet’s Katana Guns
Though highly impractical in real life, the katana guns
contribute to one of my favorite stylized gunfights in any movie.
2. dataDyne SuperDragon
The best gun in the game, it’s a solid assault rifle tha tcan instantly be turned into an automatic grenade launcher and back again. The launcher has a rather high rate of fire
and bouncing grenade rounds. The
ultimate multiplayer gun.
1. RC-P90
A representation of a real gun so inaccurate
that it might as well be a fictional gun.
Thanks to a programming error, it has an 80-round magazine as a opposed
to a 50-round mag. It also infamously
ejects rounds to the side instead of from the bottom like in real life. It also has one of the best sound effects for
any video game gun: an intimidating scream of rage in the form of a gun
report. In real life, it just sounds like a normal machine gun.
Hm... and I was expecting something from Trigun, too. It has a cross that shoots, as well as hold other smaller pistols.
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