8 Utterly PATHETIC Video Game Weapons (We Can't Stop Using)

8. Impact Hammer - Unreal Tournament

Unreal Tournament boasts one of the greatest arsenals in first-person shooter history, but in the event that your more exciting weapons run dry of ammo, you’ll be left with the game’s default weapon - the not-so-trusty Impact Hammer.

The Impact Hammer is effectively a handheld piston which, in theory, can be used to instantly explode enemies into a shower of gore. 

The big drawback? You need to get within a whisker’s distance of your target for it to work, and in a game as deliriously fast-paced as this, that’s quite the ask.

And yet, successfully melting rivals with it is so gosh-darn satisfying when it does happen that it quickly becomes something of an addiction. 

Seriously, you could be using one of the game’s objectively better weapons like the Flak Cannon or Shock Rifle, but the visceral thrill of sneaking up on an unsuspecting foe and immediately pulping them into meaty chunks becomes an intoxicating high all of its own.

With its thoroughly cack range and how wide-open it leaves you during battle, every scrap of your digital self-preservation instinct should tell you not to use it. And yet, it’s just too damn fun to ignore.