10 Goriest Video Game Weapons - Ranked

Smarter people than you have decided Half-Life is the best game of all time, ensuring Valve’s masterpiece will ever remain in the gaming consciousness. While its crowbar is a much-beloved companion throughout the game, it lacks the sheer sexiness required to ascend to the level of the greats. No, that honour goes to the Gluon Gun.

The gun’s introduction sees it handed to you by a scientist who cannot bear to bring its destructive awesomeness to bear against living beings. If that wasn’t enough to convince us, the first taste of its particle-accelerating wondrousness surely did the job.

Its beam of deadly science magic turned everything it touched into a mass of wall-spattering goop, turning the game’s mute egghead hero Gordon Freeman into the hunter instead of the hunted. Its scarcity of ammo just added to its allure. The same franchise would later give us the Gravity Gun, the Portal Gun and Glad0s, but the Gluon Gun was the gaming world’s first Valve love.