Sawed-Off Shotgun: Difference between revisions

* ''[[You Are Empty]]'' suffers from a similar problem: the sawn-off is damn useful - for the first enemy or two. Then, the slow reload causes everybody who ''hasn't'' croaked from the first two shots to demonstrate their extreme displeasure about the player's presence by severely increasing the amount of lead in his bloodstream. The game, however, has no other shotguns, so most players prefer to use the more universal machine gun or nailgun.

* ''[[Blood]]'' has an unusually accurate example as one of the available weapons. ''Blood II: The Chosen'' [[Nerf|nerfs]] it with slower firing and reload speeds, and worse accuracy. Even so, it has a greater damage-per-shot rate than the Auto Shotgun introduced in ''The Nightmare Levels''.

* ''[[Shadow Warrior]]'' has the Riot Gun, a weapon that looks like a cross between a rotary chaingun and a shotgun, but behaves just like your average shotgun in primary mode, with the four barrels rotating every shot but not actually granting a much higher rate of fire than a normal shotgun. And then there's the alternate firing mode, which allows all four barrels to be fired in succession. Much like ''Blood'' above, despite the barrels being rather short, the gun is very accurate.

* These sort of appear in ''[[Marathon (Video Game)|Marathon]] 2'' and ''Infinity''. Sort of, because "Sawed-off" indicates that they were once full-size shotguns, and these seem to have been originally manufactured at this size. And they can be used [[Guns Akimbo]] in a fashion akin to the ''Terminator 2'' example above. It even lampshades the "[[Unorthodox Reload|flip it around to reload]]" maneuver.

** The primary advantage of the sawed-off shotgun is that, by abusing the game mechanics, you can shoot-dodge into a group of enemies, blast one or two, then immediately shoot-dodge again to reload immediately. ''Max Payne 2'' "fixes" this by still requiring a reload animation, but you can still reload incredibly quickly by doing the [[Rule of Cool|fancy-looking]] [[Unorthodox Reload|bullet time reloads]].

** The ''[[The Matrix|True Matrix]] Mod'' adds [[Guns Akimbo|Sawed Off Shotgun Akimbo]] as a weapon option once you pick a second SOS. It basically doubles the firepower of a normal one, making it a four-shot weapon.

** The unlockable "Force-a-Nature" shotgun is a sawed-off ''par excellence'' - double-barrelled, cut down to just past the foregrip, and capable of unloading both barrels in a fraction of a second. The tradeoff is that you only get two shots before having to reload.

** The more recently released Soda Popper is sawed off ''[[Serial Escalation|even farther than that]]''; its barely longer than the soda can that replaced its foregrip.

* The Near-Sighted Assassin from ''[[Ghost Trick]]'' uses one. Lynne even comments on how he's probably just trying to enforce the [[Rule of Cool]] by doing so.

* Gallows, the [[Big Guy]] (well, even if he looks like one, in fact he's more a [[Black Magician Girl|Black Magician Amerindian]]) from ''[[Wild Arms 3 (Video Game)|Wild Arms 3]]'' uses one, though he's the ''worst'' attacker of the party, the weapon itself is the ''weakest'' ARM of the game (stats-wise, his ARM is just ''awful''), and his aim is ''terrible''. On the other hand, when he manages to land a critical hit, prepare yourself [[For Massive Damage]].

* The ''[[Twisted Metal]]'' reboot has this as a sidearm and a bigger one as a weapon pickup. The former is near useless when not used in [[I Just Shot Marvin in The Face|extreme close range]] and can either unload both shells at once [[For Massive Damage]] or just one shell and use the other when appropriate. Did I mention that you have [[Bottomless Magazines|unlimited ammo]] for it? On the other, there's [[Boring but Practical|nothing special for the latter]], except being a lot stronger obviously. Both weapons are potentially among the strongest weapons in the game.

 

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