10 Goriest Video Game Weapons - Ranked
6. Gears Of War’s Lancer
Is there anything as comforting as an assault rifle? Whatever the game, as long as you had an assault rifle you knew you had a bullet-spewing friend you could trust. Bullets, as games teach us, solve every problem, and an assault rifle throws them at everything around you in comfortingly large numbers.
Gears of War takes the motherly presence of the assault rifle and builds it into something truly wonderful through the simple genius of bolting a chainsaw blade to the barrel. With this simple change, the Lancer became not just a cuddly, trusted friend in a world full of slavering alien horrors, it became our key to eviscerating those same horrors with a button press.
The Lancer represents the gentle comforting presence of a nightlight combined with a flesh-rending powered saw: truly a death machine for the ages.