HA! I knew knives wouldn't win guns! Wait, I knew?
Anyway, nice article. And lasers rule.

@sharklion

You are correct! Yet the only game someone has ever seen the vest is in Super Mario 64.

I love the Indy reference!

Take this From a History Teacher in Training

The Army Air Corp can also be called the ARMY AIR FORCE!

If you don't want to take it from me TALK TO THE GUNNY. (MAIL CALL)

A daring exposé indeed! Finally, we can know the truth! All sarcasm aside, though, this was quite a funny article. Nice one, guys.

Great feature, although I can't help but notice a major absence: RPG's inventory. As in "how can a tiny, green-clad elf fit a raft, a candle, a ladder, hundreds of rupees and stuff into his backpack?".
Unless you consider Link to be a tree-sized, green-clad elf.
But that would mean Hyrule's swarming with tree-sized SPIDERS AND OCTOPUSES.
Suspension of disbelief's a bitch.

Wow 85 comments in <22hours. good article GR. By the way, of all the anomalies of halo why pick the spartan laser? I would rather know what the energy sword is, how it keeps it's shape, and how it runs out of ammo. Also didn't talk about how the momentum just stops? I lunge with sword at you, you shotgun my face off, isn't my body and the sword still moving?

Another large inconsistency you missed was how in Half-Life a scientist with no Military experience single handedly took down an alien invasion

I hope the author realizes that the Spartan Laser was never fired in a vacuum. that picture is on one of the rings, inside of the rings atmosphere. Never is the laser used in space, there for, the author it technically wrong.

Snarf said this about a mister xboxrulez.
"He knows about his punctuation. He does it on purpose because he hates Xbox and he wants to make it seem like you are a cocky jerk who can't spell if you own one"

I wouldnt care if he supported my dick with his tongue he needs to get off the comments.

Dear Ttyler Wilde,

No one ever said a game has to be scientifically correct or any of that. They are about fun. If a game was about true-to-life stuff, I'm pretty sure on the box it would say so. In Call of Duty 4, for example, the knife instant kill is to balance out the playing field. If you had to stab the guy 1500 times while he's shooting you in the face, youre going to lose everytime. If you sneak up behind someone, stab them in the leg and get a yellow "+10" in the face it's pretty much awesome. Don't be a hater, they're GAMES. play them and have fun.

I'm not sure about The Spartan Laser...it Could be Powered by Cold/Hot Plasma, like our magnetic shields over tanks And Satellites me

The COD4 screen was pretty lulzy.
Good job wild(e)man.

Wow Tyler this is a great article. I definitely agree with everything you said. Especially the fucking knife kills.

obviously you don't watch mythbusters either. even incendiary round dont explode.

PETA member: I see sir,(shouting in the background)*you've spotted him*
Caller: Hello?
PETA member: yes sorry i'm here. we've spotted the fat b***erd. Snipers in posistion.
Caller: WHAT?
PETA member: shot fired... yes, confirmed kill!! One less fat italian plumber. oh and now they've discovered his brother hiding in the bushes!! It warms my heart to know they never kill again. ( "No, no i dedn't do noting you see it was all a mario!")

TECHNICALLY, that turtle is a terrapin

xbox is basically the anti-christ of game consoles. Thank Kutaragi for playstation 2!!

What an absolutely pointless, inane 'article'. Gamesradar continues it's decline into the world's least respected game site. Ugh.

Technically, your statement, "Lasers generally emit a spreading, cone-shaped beam, which is focused into a parallel beam with a lens," is not correct. Lasers GENERALLY are emitted by radiation bouncing back and forth inside a crystal or gas cartridge where the ends are mirrored and parallel to each other. One end is only partially mirrored so that at the point where the light is more powerful than the mirrored surface, the light passes through it instead of bouncing. The molecules in the crystal or gas cartridge that emit the radiation are in alignment so that the beams leave the device as a coherent beam - NOT a cone shape. It would be virtually impossible for a lens to take unfocused light and turn it into a coherent beam. If a lens is used in tandem with a laser, it is usually to focus it on a point, increasing its effect, but basically "de-lasering" it. Getting non-coherent light into anything resembling a coherent beam would be literally like herding cats.

The Wikipedia post on lasers says that mirrors are used to turn light into a coherent beam, but the link to support the statement comes from a "Conceptual Physics" book written 30 years ago by Paul G. Hewitt, that asks questions like "What happens to a stewardess' inflatable bra when her cabin is depressurized?" and "Look at a soap bubble in your bathtub and note what color it is. Now ask your friend in the tub what color it looks like from where they sit." It's hardly a source to use to support a Wiki entry.