Video Game Weapons We Would Never Want In Real Life

Some weapons we know suck in real life, and Call of Duty's tactical nuke is one such weapon.

Most famously known for its first appearance in Modern Warfare 2, the tactical nuke is a killstreak reward for reaching 25 kills without getting killed during that span. Those skillful enough to rack up such a killstreak in online play, are able to call in a tactical nuke strike. Once called in, a countdown timer appears on every player's screen, before engulfing the entire battlefield in white, nuclear light — eradicating everything. In the world of Modern Warfare 2, using a tactical nuke automatically awards the player and their team with a win.

In real life, however, nobody wins. For those who didn't pay attention in history class, upwards of 146,000 people were killed in Hiroshima, and upwards of 80,000 people were killed in Nagasaki, after the United States dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities, near the closure of World War II — with around half of those deaths occurring on the day the bombs were dropped. Since then, nuclear bombs have represented the single greatest threat to human life — at least in terms of weaponized warfare. If you use a Tactical Nuke, yeah all your opponents will die, but so will you, thousands of innocents, and a whole bunch of plant and animal life.

While we can only speculate how most video games weapons might suck in real life, we can say with the utmost certainty that tactical nukes do, in fact, suck in real life.