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Variants of the Lancer appear in the video game series as well as in related media, beginning with Gears of War. The most well known model is the Mark (MK) 2 Lancer Assault Rifle, a mid-range assault rifle with a fully operational chainsaw for a bayonet, and is usually available as one of the starting weapons used by the protagonists of the series.
The Zweihänder is a recurring weapon in the Dark Souls series of video games. The video game Team Fortress 2 features an unlockable Zweihänder known as the "Claidheamh Mòr". The multiplayer video game Chivalry: Medieval Warfare features the Zweihänder. In its sequel, Chivalry 2, the Zweihänder appears as a skin for the Greatsword.
The term "glaive" is used in the science-fiction/fantasy film Krull to refer to a thrown weapon, similar to the shuriken, chakram, or mambele, which can return to the thrower, much like a boomerang. Glaive has been used to describe this fictional type of weapon in films, video games (such as Warframe and Dark Sector), and other fantasy media since.
Shooter video games or shooters are a subgenre of action video games where the focus is on the defeat of the character's enemies using ranged weapons given to the player. . Usually these weapons are firearms or some other long-range weapons, and can be used in combination with other tools such as grenades for indirect offense, armor for additional defense, or accessories such as telescopic ...
On GamesRadar's list of top 100 weapons in video games, the gravity gun was ranked #2 just behind the Cerebral Bore from Turok 2. [14] The Half-Life 2 gravity gun is one of several weapons used alongside ones from other game and film franchises in a climactic fight for the 2021 film Free Guy, which takes place within a video game. [15]
The use of weapons has been a major driver of cultural evolution and human history up to today since weapons are a type of tool that is used to dominate and subdue autonomous agents such as animals and, by doing so, allow for an expansion of the cultural niche, while simultaneously other weapon users (i.e., agents such as humans, groups, and cultures) are able to adapt to the weapons of ...
On release, Halo 2 was the most popular video game on Xbox Live, [64] holding that rank until the release of Gears of War for the Xbox 360 nearly two years later. [ 65 ] [ 66 ] In the first ten weeks of release, players collectively logged 91 million hours playing the game; [ 67 ] [ 68 ] by June 2006, more than 500 million games of Halo 2 had ...