10 things we'd do with a real gravity gun

Mischief, murder and physics fun with Freeman's famous gun

Words: on November 11, 2008

The gravity gun is a godsend to Gordon Freeman throughout the Orange Box. As adept at creating impromptu platforms, bridges and makeshift shields out of whatever’s laying around City 17 as it is at blowing bits off headcrabs; it’s perhaps the most intuitive and visceral gun in games.

So just imagine how amazing having one in real life would be. Solving complex physics puzzles. Helping kids get their balloons and cats down from trees. And just basking in the technological and scientific boundaries mankind had broken for such a device to exist. Actually, sod all of that. With a real gravity gun pitted in our petulant palms we’d get up to the following acts of laziness, deviancy and homicide.

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  • ryno

    ryno  - 3 years, 2 months ago  - Report

    id use the gravity gun to pick up dog crap on my lawn and chuck it at the person who let their dog crap there.

    great article
  • crazyqazqaz

    crazyqazqaz  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    Yeah, but surely you wouldn't have to earn the money, you could just lift out people's wallets!
  • jiveturkey

    jiveturkey  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    haha For number two, those are pictures from two different games. The picture on top is Angels vs. White Sox in the 2005 ALCS, and the bottom one is Phillies vs. Rays in the 2008 World Series.
  • jimsondanet

    jimsondanet  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    id raise the ocean into a massive sphere then drop it again whilst filming it from a hot air ballon
  • GoldenMe

    GoldenMe  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    It will also be easier to egg houses across the city.

    But awesome article GR!!! Best photoshopping I seen all month!
  • Corsair89

    Corsair89  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    Simon Cowell would say,"You are the worst excuse of a car I've ever see. All you could do was crush my spine, encave my skull, and shatter my testicles. Pathetic." And then Cowell begins to rub his nipples until he bleeds out.
  • the_real_fluke

    the_real_fluke  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    i think moving around cars in parking lots should be there, making the,where did i park my car question, just that much more frequent
  • KHfan

    KHfan  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    id love to scare lil kids in planes
  • Metallica

    Metallica  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    Best.Article.Ever.
  • key0blade

    key0blade  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    Second I suppose...

    Great article GR
  • TheHiphopopotamus

    TheHiphopopotamus  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    FIRST! *proud*

    I agree. Please kill Simon Cowell.
  • Juggernaut140

    Juggernaut140  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    Awesome article is AWESOME
  • iluvmyDS

    iluvmyDS  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    I totally loved/saved the world series pitch picture.
  • TENAXIS

    TENAXIS  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    number 4,8 and 10!! soo funny!!

    nice one!!

    make me laugh my ass off!!
  • understudybass

    understudybass  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    only in the UK
  • ELpork

    ELpork  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    Go gram gram.
  • CAPST3R

    CAPST3R  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
  • stuzimuzipuzi

    stuzimuzipuzi  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    nice artical lol earth wud be a betta place wivout paris hilton lol
  • PecksniffianPopinjay

    PecksniffianPopinjay  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    On that last one... Fly them around, then drop them.
  • kingpin202

    kingpin202  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    Question? Maybe they could use the grav gun to help a qb complete passes.

    Answer? This has already happened. It's called Brett Farve's Agent.

    *Oh, that makes sense! haha.
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