10 Most Overpowered Weapons in Video Games

Some video game weapons are truly over the top and excessive. Here are some of our favorite examples.

[chelseawoodward]

The rail gun in red faction was soo fun playing with friends just hide in a cave you just built with a rocket launcher and and start looking around for heat signatures and blast away no auto lock tho!

[squanch]

You missed a very overpowered weapon from Skyrim. The Windshear. It broke the game, it had 100% chance to stagger enemies, and you could swing it quickly. Basically trapping anyone you hit with it in a stagger loop because you could hit them again before they could recover. This included dragons. Any enemy you can think of the Windshear made the fights comical.

[kitsvn]

Gjallarhorn, Destiny 1 Launch and The Dark Below. Especially because we played all the time, and RNG never gave me one until right before it wasn’t meta anymore. 😂

[Drkilljoy]

The best way to avoid the blue shell is braking to make the person in second be in first and it will hit them instead. Pretty toxic avoidance but it is quite the effective tactic.

[GSystem]

0:18 Number 10 - Big boy from Fallout 4
1:51 Number 9 - Energy Sword from Halo 2
3:14 Number 8 - Noob Tube from Modern Warfare 2
4:45 Number 7 - Blue Shell from Mario Kart series
6:14 Number 6 - Ryno from Ratchet & Clank series
7:50 Number 5 - Rivers of Blood Katana from Elden Ring
9:10 Number 4 - Metal Blade from Mega Man 2
10:34 Number 3 - Plasma Cutter from Dead Space
11:38 Number 2 - Gram from Castlevania Symphony Of The Night
12:40 Number 1 - Farsight XR-20 from Perfect Dark

Bonus :
13:52 BFG from Doom Series
14:09 Goldengun from GoldenEye 007

[anagoth]

One of my favorite memories about the H2 energy sword back in the day is that when it came out everyone knew that if two players with energy swords swung them at each other at the same time they'd end up in a clash, neither dealing damage to the other. Initially, everyone used the energy sword like a gun and using the 'fire' button to lunge with it. I remember finding out early on that you could also use the 'melee' attack rather than the 'fire' attack. You'd swing the sword just as fast and do just as much damage but you wouldn't get the lunge. The upside though, is that it had a much faster recovery time so if you wound up in a dual with another energy sword user mashing lunge then you'd win 100% of the time.

[MysticBearKnight]

Although the Fat Man is extremely powerful, the Mini Nukes are quite rare, making the weapon and ammo feel unique and valuable to you. I’ve always loved that about the Fallout games.

[michaelstarkey]

The Cerebral Bore from Turok 2: Seeds of Evil on N64.

This gun fires an enemy seeking drill that chews into the skull of anyone you fire it at. It actually makes the enemies stop attacking and run when you fire it. Only other thing in the game to do that are the giant mounts with tank cannons.

[thatonekid]

Man I love watching your videos after having a hard day at work to relax. Keep it up!

[misterbones]

Something I want to add for the fatman weapon for fallout 4: if you complete the treasure hunt quest for Sierra in Nuka world you can get access to fatman mini nukes fuses with Nuka cola and it increases the damage drastically and you can equip it to the Big Boy variant

[CVHFitness]

Honourable mention: Windshear from Skyrim. Stuns every hit. Makes it impossible for almost all enemies to ever hit you if its 1 on 1. Even though the damage is low, the ability is just insane.

[j-p]

I also would like to add (to the list) is the shotgun from F.E.A.R., pretty much the only other super shotgun in video games (that I could think of) that would make the doomguy lick his lips with anticipation. This shotgun will literally turn replica soldiers into clouds of blood INSTANTLY. Combine that with bullet-time and you've got yourself another OP weapon that changes everything.

[Showgingah]

For SOTN, instead of the Christogram, the Shield Rod is lowkey the most overpowered weapon in the game, but it may not count because it is dependant on the shield you have. Even then, the Iron Shield you can get relatively early, and it basically will two shot bosses, but once you get the Alucard Shield, you are literally unkillable and melt every boss in the game in seconds.

[ARIXANDRE]

Not a weapon, but thanks Bloody Slash for getting me through Elden Ring!

[elchoronano]

May I recommend vex mythoclast from destiny 2, at least during season 14 and 15... That thing would do anything and everything, anywhere and for free, the damage that it did while having a mode for every engagement while using only primary ammo was wild

[andybrown]

Plasma cutter belongs on a list of starter weapons so effective that you can ignore every other, alongside gems like bioshocks wrench, half lifes gravity gun and the gravity/magnet/thing from fed faction armageddon.

[JeffJitsu]

So glad to see Perfect Dark listed here! It’s rare to see it mentioned anywhere, see what I did there? We spent countless hours battling each other with the far-sight and other weapons. Favorite map is still Complex!

[bigbadgrun]

A couple that were missed on this list. I was going to add the BFG but it got an honorable mention. I am however going to add 2 to this list. The Buzzsaw from farcry4 and the unicorn gun from red faction: Armageddon

[jamsywamsy]

Also, something Falcon missed about #3 the Plasma Cutter, is that you get a gold trophy for beating Dead Space using ONLY the Plasma Cutter.

I think in Dead Space 2, it lights enemies on fire, which is AWESOME!!!!

[oviekpolugbo]

The infinite rocket launcher from the Resident Evil series is pretty damn OP.