A key part of almost any video game is dispatching enemies. However, as the hours of shooting, stealth-ing, and platforming go by, sometimes the traditional means begin to feel somewhat trite. Yes, we could shotgun the nine millionth nameless soldier, choke out yet another guard, or jump on the head of another defenseless animal, but what if there was a more e𝕴laborate way to say good🅠bye to the baddies?
Thankfully, developers have realized that there are few things more satisfyingꦆ than finding a way to turn your surrounding into a weapon. Environmental weapons and hazards🌊 pose a great opportunity for refreshingly inventive kills, but often they can also get you killed. These are the best environmental hazards that video games love to let us cause havoc with!
16 ꦿ Impractical Sawblades
We don't know a lot about logging and sawmills, but we are pretty certain that saws coming out of the floor with no barriers or warnings wouldn't be up to code. We're looking at you 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Team Fortress 2 - there is no way ctf_sawmill is OSHA approved.
What's worse is the countless-abandoned factories and generic industrial areas that leave sawblades out for anyone to hurt themselves on. We know that there is an alien invasion going on in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Half-Life, but someone should have brought all of Ravenholm's sawblades to a dump or something.
15 🦩 💎 Crushers/Grinders
Speaking of things that aren't up to code: what factory, prison, space station, or anywhere else thought it would be safe to have large, floor-to-ceiling moving walls, or worse - unguarded grinders?
We know the prison in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Callisto Protocol isn't totally on the up-and-up, but who installed vertical meat grinders here? While these are definitely going to get an architect fired, the good news is they're very helpful for dealing with mutant monsters.
14 A Fridge
More games should let you throw fridges at people. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Cyberpunk and Prey both allow you to upgrade yourself to be strong enough to throw objects that weigh several tonnes at the enemies. However, only the Deus Ex series is brave enough to 🎉let us throw a fridge full of milk at random civilians.
13 Boulders
Boulders can be a doubled-edged-sword for video game characters... or double-edged-rock, come to think of it. Most of the time, characters like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Lara Croft and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Crash Bandicoot will have to make like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Indiana Jones and run towardℱs the camera as they are cashed down by a rolling stone.
However, sometimes, in wonderful rare instances, Link will arrive at the top of a hill to see a bunch of boulders at the top in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Breath of the Wild. And if he peers down to the base of the hill, he'll see a camp of Bokoblins having lunch. And if everything works out just right, you'll finally get to use a boulder for good!
12 𓂃 A Big 💖Old Ledge
Sometimes you don't need to overcomplicate things. All you need is a bad guy to be standing too close to the edge of a cliff, and be willing to offer them a little helping hand.
Extra point if the game is anything like Dark Messiah of Might aܫnd Magic, and it allows that helpin𒁏g hand to come in the form of a boot at the end of a mighty kick.
11 A Room Ful💖l Of Gas
Video game enemies have clearly never seen any of the PSAs on TV. If you smell gas, report it, and whatever you do, don't light an open flame! We'll give the AI some benefit of the doubt on this one since computers can't actually smell, but all these guards in these Hitman levels would vasꦫtly improve their rate of sur🌱vival if they started to respect this silent but deadly force of nature.
10 🐈 🐻 Oil On The Floor
Okay, there is no excuse for this one. If you are an evil henchman guarding an evil base, and you see the distinct colorful liquid on the floor, mop it up!
The protagonist will always be more than happy to light the oil on fire while you're standing in it. Besides, if you are running a sinister military operation leaving oil on the floor is just asking for trouble.
9 🤡 ဣ Water On The Floor
It's much easier to forgive the bad guys for not being careful of this - we see puddles of water everywhere and most people would pay no heed. Most people, except for video game characters.
The perfect place to send an electrical current is into puddles - unassuming but deadly to anyone standing inဣ it🤪.
8 💃 Lava/Molten Metal ꦆ
This one is just a classic, and for good reason too. Almost no living thing can survive an encounter🙈 with lava or molဣten metal.
So whether it's filling the ground level of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Browser's latest castle, being poured precariously into molds in industrial facilities, or the literal fires of hell, we all know what will happen if you force an enemy into an encounter with something that hot.
7 ꦜ Dangling Chande꧂lier
If there is a chandelier in a game, you can bet your bottom dollar we are going to try to make it fall. Agent 47 seems to be an especially big fan of this fo༒rm of environmental murder, but tha💟t may just be because of the super-rich social circles he hunts in. Who knows though, maybe he is just a huge fan of the Phantom of the Opera.
Whatever the case may be, there are few things as satisfying as the crash of expensive glass on top of go♉ons or assassinat🐻ion targets.