The Ten Most Useless Weapons In Gaming

Written by: Adam "ManKorn" Korenman, CC2K Video Games Editor

3) The Cerebral Bore, Turok 2

Twice on the same list? Yes, Turok 2 definitely had some of the strangest weapons ever seen in a video game (outside of Ratchet and Clank), but that does not necessarily mean it didn’t have some flukes. 

The Cerebral Bore is one of those. 

Sure, the premise was great. You would lock onto an enemy, send out this drone, and it would straight suck the dude’s brains right out. Then explode. 

This might seem like a pretty useful tool when facing hordes of mutated dino-monsters. But in order to lock on, you had to keep the reticule pointed at the enemy for like five goddamn minutes. And if they moved, which is what one generally does when faced with a brain-suction device, you had to start over. 

In multiplayer, which was used as a form of torture in some countries, the weapon was completely worthless. No human opponent would stand still long enough for the weapon to work, and the maps were all cramped corridors anyway; no chance of catching someone from far away. 

In other words, the cerebral bore was as useless as a book of dinosaur erotica before the invention of the internet.