10 Amazing Video Game Items (That Actually Curse You)
8. The Killstar - Far Cry 3 : Blood Dragon
In a game that prides itself on being over the top as an homage to the neon- and blood-drenched action movies of the '80s and '90s, the Killstar is perhaps the game's capper. While you don't get the weapon until the very endgame, it's worth the wait.
The Killstar is, basically, an artillery weapon strapped to your wrist. As the game's typically self-deprecating humour explains it, the Killstar 'feeds the bio-amplitude levels of the human body into reaching pitch resonance polarity. Did that make sense? Probably not...'.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter, because what the Killstar gives you is a massive laser beam that is super accurate, has great range and is capable of quickly killing even Blood Dragons, with the unfortunate side effect of draining your health while you fire it. If your health gets too low, while you don't die, you lose the use of your superweapon until you rebuild your health.
Clearly, the developers had a blast with this. The weapon combines the pseudo-mystical stories of ninja movies with the chrome and neon look of what everyone in the '80s thought the future would look like. Combine that with the dry, snarky one-liners of Michael Biehn (Kyle Reese from the Terminator and Hicks from Aliens) and the fact that you're riding a neon green armoured dragon into the final battle and you're in for a treat.