10 Most Creative Guns In Video Games
2. Gravity Gun – Half-Life 2
Another icon of the video game gun collection, another masterpiece of the damned Aperture Science organisation of Half-Life and Portal fame, and another weapon designed primarily for puzzle solving.
As the name implies, the Gravity Gun from Half-Life 2 was built to manipulate objects by either projecting them in front of you with a pulse, or holding them in mid-air so you can move even the heaviest objects around with ease. The gun's original design as a mine clearer could therefore be used to create cover, scale high objects to otherwise unreachable locations, or – and we all did this – launch saw blades and barrels of combustible fuel at the invading enemies. The beauty of the Gravity Gun is not only its ability open up new options of exploration, but to turn almost everything into a lethal weapon by projecting it with enough force.
The Gravity Gun was an icon at the time of it's conception and went on to inspire similar weapon-types in other video games, including TimeSplitters 3's Temporal Uplink, Doom 3's Grabber, and the Telekinesis plasmid from Bioshock.