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So powerful, so deadly and yet small enough to fit in your hand. The frag grenade is in almost all shooter and action games.
Protects against deadly gas and other pollutants.
A Gatling gun is a machine gun that uses multiple rotating barrels to rapidly fire bullets. Commonly mounted on vehicles or gunships, some larger characters may carry a hand held version.
A grenade is an explosive device traditionally thrown by hand, but may also be propelled by a rifle or launcher.
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.
Common in game's like Tony Hawks Pro Skater but these are also seen in many other types of games
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.
A Jet pack is a backpack with rocket boosters built in that usually allows the wearer to hover or fly.
A knife is a commonly seen object in video games. Usually used for close quarters combat, or as a cutting tool.
An object and/or gameplay mechanic that allows a laser to assist in aiming a weapon. It is often in the form of a weapon attachment that is used to assist in close quarters combat with the accuracy of guns.
A mine attached to a wall with a laser beam pointing outwards. When the beam is crossed, it goes BOOM.
A fully automatic rifle firing intermediate cartridges.
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.
The LS13 semi-automatic shotgun (nicknamed "Lucky Strike") fires a dense cloud of pellets with every shot.
An accessory for the M16 rifle. It is a grenade launcher that is installed under the barrel of the rifle. It fires a 40mm grenade with an effective range of 150 meters (160 yards) .
ISA's rival to Helghast Sta3 LMG. It is based from the real life M249 SAW machine gun.
The standard ISA side arm used by ISA soldiers. It is so powerful that it take two body shots and one headshot to kill an enemy.
The M82 assault rifle is the ISA standard issue fully automatic rifle.
Machine guns, generally, are heavier weapons with a rapid rate of fire. To quote the Quake manual, they "eat ammo like popcorn."
Magnum is a term for a pistol or rifle cartridge packed with extra gunpowder to make it significantly more powerful than a standard round. Guns which have been designed to fire this ammunition often share the Magnum label.
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.
MGL stands for "Multiple Grenade Launcher". It was designed, developed and manufactured by a South African company, Milkor. It is also called the M32 Grenade Launcher.
A mohawk is a hair style in which there is a big strip of spiky long hair down the middle of the head while leaving the sides bald or at least having a lot less hair. Many punks and Mr T have this hair style.
An apparatus that fires nails or rivets. Not always designed as a weapon, but most often used as one.
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.
A Pump-Action shotgun is a variant of the general shotgun design, that has a pump, which must be moved between shots. It is normally towards the front of the weapon, below the barrel, and should not be confused with a lever action shotgun.
A red dot sight (also referred to as a scope) is a sight placed on firearms. The aiming reticule is represented as an illuminated red dot in the middle of the sight.
Mines that can be detonated from a remote location.
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