Giveaway / Melee for Zeno Clash |
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| BY Matthew Razak Apr. 10th, 2009 | More on: |
Hitting people in the face is fun. Well not in real life — you can seriously hurt your hand that way — but in videogames it is. I think we all know the first time we meleed someone in Halo with the butt of a pistol was a time that changed our lives forever. In Zeno Clash punching people in the face happens more than shooting them. It’s a hand-to-hand combat game in first person, and thus the melee is king.
In the spirit of this we want to know what your favorite videogame melee weapon of all time is. Fill us in and you could win a free copy of Zeno Clash for your very self and start meleeing the hours away on your own. We have five Steam keys to give away, so tell us what melee weapon you have always loved to beat fo0ls down with in the comments below and win one of them.
Giveaway has ended, the winners contacted.
April 11th, 2009
at 5:16 am
That’s a hard one, there aren’t all that much melee weapons these days (butts of firerms excluded). But I’ll go with an old favorite, the Doom chainsaw. Good times!
April 11th, 2009
at 11:33 am
There are a lot of great choices for this: the iconic Half-Life 2 crowbar, the powerful (but annoying) covenant energy sword, the Counter-Strike or CoD knife, the needs-no-introduction lightsaber, the aforementioned chainsaw, but–for me–there’s nothing more satisfying than the speed, power, and visceral excitement of swinging around the business end of a paper cutter in Condemned… awesome.
April 11th, 2009
at 1:10 pm
The boot from Duke Nukem was fun and awesome… good times.
April 11th, 2009
at 1:42 pm
left 4 dead health pack punching for the win, a funny way to take out the infected.
April 12th, 2009
at 4:43 pm
The karate chop from Goldeneye 64 is the ultimate attack!
April 13th, 2009
at 2:08 am
Perfect Dark disarm (N64). The best melee weapon. Smack someone in the face, and his gun flies out of his hands and his vision gets blurry.
It was an interesting way to help level the playing field between stocked-up and freshly-spawned players, and it made close-quarters combat tense. You DID NOT want your enemies to get close. It’s too tragic to lose your super dragon in the middle of a fight.
But it was something more… When feeling particularly mischievous, I would assault someone with disarm, take their weapons, and leave them unarmed and blurry-eyed while I ran off with all their guns. But that was usually only when I was mad about someone stealing my super dragon.
April 13th, 2009
at 10:23 am
Lead pipe from River City Ranson for the NES. Nothing was more satisfying then picking one up and busting some heads!
April 14th, 2009
at 1:09 am
I always enjoyed jumping on to non-expecting prostitutes in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines and sucking their blood out of them. Does that count as melee? me love?
April 15th, 2009
at 5:15 am
Melee? You said melee, right? Because REAL men don’t need no stinking “weapons” in melee. REAL men crush their opponents with their bare arms! Or one bare arm, to be exact. Bare severed arm. MY OWN severed arm!
That’s just one artifact of the insanity that is Planescape: Torment. The main character is an immortal amnesiac, and spends the game encountering the consequences of his past actions. One of which is his own remains. Which he can then loot. And then you get a nice, embalmed club, which still has your old tattoos on it.
It’s not nearly the most powerful (or weirdest) weapon in the game, but I always had a fondness for its irony, and crushed quite a few half-angels with it in my day.
(What? No one said it had to be an FPS…)
April 21st, 2009
at 5:35 pm
I already have Zeno Clash so if I win somehow (which I probably won’t) then pass it onto someone else.
My favorite melee weapon would have to be the boots from paper mario.
Not only were they super strong but after you hit the enemy you can start a random combo of flips and spins!
I guess the hammer is close behind the boots but I always like jumping on enemies more than hitting them with a hammer.
April 23rd, 2009
at 5:10 pm
Oh god I have a lot of favourites but I have to say I do love the chainsaw gun from Gears of War, the amount of times I have rushed blindly into an obviously suicidal fight revving my chainsaw in hopes of watching the death animation a few times is just staggering.
Not to mention classic Fallout 3 weapons like the ‘Shishkebab’.
But by jove my favourite is Nero’s sword in Devil May Cry 4, you rev the thing up like a motorbike for God’s sake, not to mention it is huge.
And on that note Cloud’s Buster sword, because bigger is always better right?
April 23rd, 2009
at 5:15 pm
And to add on to my previous comment, nothing beats going into a game and coming up against a group of heavily armed hostiles, so what do you do?
Well it’s obvious really, you strip completely naked discarding any armour you have and any weapons then you rush in there and lay down the smack down with your bare hands!
That is the definition of manly.
May 3rd, 2009
at 7:37 pm
Wow, there are so many interesting melee weapons out there…
But yeah, I think I’ll have to go with what someone else already said… I’ll go one step further though: Duke Nukem’s boot, with the “Mighty Foot” Engaged. If you think you can kick ass with one foot at a time, you haven’t tried doing it with two…
Kicking Alien ass has never been funnier. And the fact that it’s completely impossible to kick with your two feet at a time (at a pretty high speed) makes it just a lot funnier. Good times… Running around in the Porn Cinema (or flying when having a Jetpack equipped), and doing non-stop double kicks. Truly Epic.
Other cool melee weapons are the classic DooM Chainsaw and nuckles (+Berzerk mode), the Sledgehammer from the 2 original Fallouts (Good times seeing Sulik make them fly), the power fists from the same series, the dagger from Wolfenstein 3D, The whip from the castlevania series, the claim Solais from one of the GBA Castlevanias, the baseball bat from the smashbros series and some others I can’t think of right now…