Cue Fat Boy Slim music...
Shooters, and FPSs in particular almost always offer us a wide variety of weapons. In fact, often games are judged by the variety, utility and innovation of it's deadly ensemble of death-dealing tools. The wrench or crowbar, the Golden Gun and RCP90, Chillrend, the chainsaw, laptop gun, boomerang, the BFG, the Glaive, the Gravity Gun, Bees and the lightsaber are all so iconic I don't even need to mention the games from which they came (do I?).
They can change the game in small ways or radically alter our playstyles. It could be as pronounced as Mass Effect's Soldier, Vanguard and Infiltrator classes for example, whose specialist weapon class greatly changes the approach to combat. It may mean finding places to camp in multiplayer, or the necessity to try and get close undetected. We'll play through a game just to experience its combat from a different perspective (except ME of course...if you weren't a vanguard, you were doing it wrong!).
Do you like dominating in the middle with an AR? Do you prefer stealth and backstabbery, thereby laughing in the face of the name "shooter"? Do you like heavy weapons such as the minigun, Gatling laser, etc? Is the Headshot from 200 yards the highest form of skill?
What is your favourite shooter weapon or weapon class, and by extension play style, and why. What game gives the best example of your favoured weapon? Go!
PS. I call Shotgun!
Shooters, and FPSs in particular almost always offer us a wide variety of weapons. In fact, often games are judged by the variety, utility and innovation of it's deadly ensemble of death-dealing tools. The wrench or crowbar, the Golden Gun and RCP90, Chillrend, the chainsaw, laptop gun, boomerang, the BFG, the Glaive, the Gravity Gun, Bees and the lightsaber are all so iconic I don't even need to mention the games from which they came (do I?).
They can change the game in small ways or radically alter our playstyles. It could be as pronounced as Mass Effect's Soldier, Vanguard and Infiltrator classes for example, whose specialist weapon class greatly changes the approach to combat. It may mean finding places to camp in multiplayer, or the necessity to try and get close undetected. We'll play through a game just to experience its combat from a different perspective (except ME of course...if you weren't a vanguard, you were doing it wrong!).
Do you like dominating in the middle with an AR? Do you prefer stealth and backstabbery, thereby laughing in the face of the name "shooter"? Do you like heavy weapons such as the minigun, Gatling laser, etc? Is the Headshot from 200 yards the highest form of skill?
What is your favourite shooter weapon or weapon class, and by extension play style, and why. What game gives the best example of your favoured weapon? Go!
PS. I call Shotgun!
