BFG 9000
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| BFG 9000 | |
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 The BFG 9000 as depicted in Doom (top) and Doom 3 (bottom) |
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| Game series | Doom series |
| First game | Doom (1993) |
| Designed by | Adrian Carmack Kevin Cloud |
The BFG 9000 is a fictional futuristic weapon found in the video game series Doom. The BFG 9000 is a huge, solid metal gun that fires balls of green plasma. The most powerful weapon in the games, it is capable of destroying nearly any player or enemy in the vicinity with a single hit. Most subsequent first-person shooters implemented similar weapons, but few of them were quite as notorious as the BFG 9000. Quake II and Quake III Arena pay homage to the BFG 9000 with a pair of similar weapons both called the BFG10K, although the Quake III Arena version acts more like a rapid-fire rocket launcher than a single shot mass destruction device.
The abbreviation BFG stands for "Big Fucking Gun" as described in Tom Hall's original Doom design document. Another name, according to the motion picture, is "Bio Force Gun" (although in the movie itself, "Big Fucking Gun" is spoken as it comes into view).
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[edit] Critical reception
UGO.com ranked the BFG 9000 at number two on their Top 50 Video Game Weapons of All Time list. In the article they noted the strategic effect of the weapon, stating "It was marvelous and complex, and we should not hesitate to put this weapon down in history as one of the best."[1] X-Play ranked it number one on their Top 10 Badass Weapons list, stating that while "not as fancy as the gravity gun", it was the first weapon that "really made us swoon".[2] IGN editor Tom McNamara listed the BFG as one of the ten best weapons in video games, placing it at number ten.[3] Machinima.com named it number one on their list of Top Ten Video Game Weapons, stating "Do you really need a reason why this tops the list?"[4]. It was also added to the ScrewAttack's Armory, as the one and only weapon you would ever need, as long as it had unlimited ammo.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Top 50 Video Game Weapons of All Time. UGO.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-17
- ^ X-Play's Top 10 Badass Weapons: Part 2. G4. Retrieved on 2008-12-25
- ^ McNamara, Tom (2006-02-28). Top 10 Tuesday: Tom's Favorite Videogame Weapons. IGN. Retrieved on 2008-12-31
- ^ Top 10 Video Game Weapons. Machinima.com. Retrieved on 2009-01-30
- ^ The BFG - ScrewAttack's Armory. ScrewAttack.com. Retrieved on 2009-08-09
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