History VideoGame / GunsGoreAndCannoli

* CoolGuns: Plenty of them are available beyond common sense!

* AlcoholIsPoison: Literally. It turns out the mafia's been brewing some bad batches that turns everyone into zombies. [[spoiler: Bonus points for the zombifying component being ''literally'' described as poison by its creator.]]

** The sequel has police officers with riot shields and Nazi officers who charge after the player with a sword and shield. The shields can be temporarily negated by good kicking.

* ZombieApocalypse: A local variation, with the effects of the outbreak contained to one city.

* FireBreathingWeapon: A rare inversion of VideogameFlamethrowersSuck, as it incinerates your enemies pretty effectively.

* BatterUp: The first game has Vinnie insulting enemy gangsters who unsuccessfully bring baseball bats into a gunfight. In the sequel, his reserve melee weapon happens to be a baseball bat he stole from a Mook. Interestingly, two hits from a baseball bat will kill regular enemies.
--->Vinnie: "When I play baseball, a home-run means ''you're out!''"

* ChainsawGood: The second melee weapon in the sequel is a chainsaw that Vinnie stole from a Mook. It's great at stopping most enemies in their tracks.

* DeadlyGas: Soldiers throw gas grenades more liberally than gangsters throw the exploding variety, since their gas masks make them immune. The fact that they actually have poison gas grenades used on American soil tells you just how bad somebody in the federal government wants this city locked down.

* HistoricalInJoke: [[spoiler: In TheStinger, after defeating and then stealing one of Dark Don's UFO's, Vinnie crashes it into Roswell. This refers to the Roswell UFO Incident]]

* KarmaHoudini: Vinnie would have been convicted for multiple counts of gruesome murder had it not been for the fact that all of the victims and all of the evidence are now stuck in a quarantined zone that's permanently guarded by the US Army[[note]]Nobody in the government, least of all the former prohibition bureau, wants evidence of the kill-moonshiners-by-deadly-toxin-injected-alcohol plan revealed to the public. The courts dropped all charges against Vinnie according to the sequel, which makes sense considering that any leak of the poison plan would spell doom for the federal government[[/note]].

** In the first game, the double-barrel shotgun has really short range but will kill zombies in two hits and knock any survivors back. The pump-action shotgun has slightly longer range and an 8-round magazine. It also knocks enemies away.
** In the sequel, the shotgun will instantly kill any normal enemy who absorbs all the buckshot from one shot. The knock-back ability is taken UpToEleven, allowing the player to launch surviving enemies into the air. One can also knock the enemies into the ground if the enemies are jumping up from directly below.

* HistoricalInJoke: [[spoiler: In TheStinger, after defeating and then stealing one of Dark Don's (Vinnie's) UFO's he crashes it into Roswell. Referring to the Roswell UFO Incident]]

** In the sequel, the shotgun will instantly kill any normal enemy who absorbs all the buckshot from one shot. The knock-back ability is taken UpToEleven, allowing the player to launch surviving enemies into the air (conversely one can also knock the enemies into the ground if the enemies are jumping up from directly below

** In the sequel, the shotgun will instantly kill any normal enemy who absorbs all the buckshot from one shot. The knock-back ability is taken UpToEleven, allowing the player to launch surviving enemies into the air (conversely one can also knock the enemies into the ground if the enemies are jumping up from directly below).

* BondOneLiner: Vinnie does this a lot.

* OneManArmy: Vinnie, who takes on two gangs, a city full of zombies, a battalion of the US Army, and a rogue blimp. In the sequel, Vinnie faces gangsters aligned with the Dark Don, several truck-loads of local police (who seem to have reneged on the government's promise on not prosecuting Vinnie for the Thugtown incident), the Thugtown unit of the US Army, countless zombies, a U-boat, a Tiger tank, and several divisions of the Wehrmacht and the [=Waffen SS=].

* RedShirtArmy: The US Army in both games. It's rather embarrassing to know that by 1944 (the second game) the soldiers guarding Thugtown can't stop Vinnie. And tragically the soldiers who charge out with Vinnie at Normandy all get killed by German landmines, machine guns, and artillery. Vinnie loots their corpses for shotguns (strangely, Vinnie cannot use their standard rifles, nor can he use the rifles wielded by German soldiers).

** In the first game, the double-barrel shotgun has really short range but will kill zombies in two hits. The pump-action shotgun has slightly longer range and an 8-round magazine. It also knocks enemies away.
** In the sequel, the shotgun will instantly kill any normal enemy who absorbs all the buckshot from one shot. The knock-back ability is taken UpToEleven, allowing the player to launch enemies into the air (conversely one can also knock the enemies into the ground if the enemies are jumping up from directly below).

* Bayonetya: German soldiers with gas masks in the sequel game will charge after the player in order to stab him to death.

* {{BFG}}: One of the weapons you can get is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_gun Maxim Gun]], more specifically the German MG-08/15.

** Some German soldiers in the sequel wear gas masks, but they will bayonet the player.

* WeirdWorldWar: The SequelEscalation involves Vinnie taking on the Nazis who try to create zombie troops as a Wunderwaffe. On their own soil.

* CoolVsAwesome: Gangsters vs. Zombies.

** It's even worse in the sequel, because the majority of zombies will run after the player. Soldier zombies in the sequel can actually aim their guns. And now there are giant zombies,
* SetAMookToKillAMook: Humans and zombies will fight each other.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Frankie. Vinnie, the mob bosses, [[spoiler:the scientist who created the zombie plague]]...''nobody'' is safe from this guy!

''Guns, Gore, and Cannoli'' is a 2015 run ' n gun. Welcome to Thugtown, a [[TheRoaringTwenties Prohibition-era city]] run by the mafia and plagued with zombies. You control Vinnie Cannoli, a mob enforcer sent to find Frankie "The Fly," a small-time wise guy who went missing during the outbreak.

* CoolAirship: Bellucio has one, and he needs Frankie (who's a pilot) to fly it for him. It serves as the final boss when Vinnie boards it at the climax of his fight, protected by heavy armor, grenade launchers, and machine guns.

** [[spoiler: The government released him because his blood provides immunity to the zombie poison.]]

** It's even worse in the sequel, because the zombies will run after the player. And soldier zombies in the sequel can actually aim their guns.

The official website can be found [[http://gunsgorecannoli.com/launch.html here]]. In January 2017, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoXyO38tR5A a trailer was released for the sequel]].

* {{BFG}}: One of the weapons you can get is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_gun Maxim Gun]].
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Frankie. Vinnie, the mob bosses, [[spoiler:the scientist who created the zombie plague]]...''no one'' is safe from this guy!

** Since nukes haven't been invented yet, this is how the Army wipes out the city.

* KarmaHoudini: Vinnie would have been convicted for multiple counts of gruesome murder had it not been for the fact that all of the victims and all of the evidence are now stuck in a quarantined zone that's kept top secret by the federal government[[note]]Nobody in the government, least of all the former prohibition bureau, wants evidence of the kill-moonshiners-by-deadly-toxin-injected-alcohol plan revealed to the public, and by the time Vinnie gets his photos in the papers after his arrest it's too late to assassinate him. The courts dropped all charges against Vinnie according to a trailer for the sequel[[/note]].
* KarmicDeath: Vinnie shoves the MadScientist who made the poison into one of his own vats of the stuff. It is never confirmed that the scientist is really dead. Also, Vinnie tosses Frankie off the blimp to his [[DisneyVillainDeath apparent demise]].
* NominalHero: Vinnie Cannoli is an unrepentant mob enforcer who just happens to be stuck in the middle of a zombie outbreak. [[spoiler:Not to mention he walks away with the Bellucio mob family's fortune at the end, even though it's blood money of the reddest sort thanks to Frankie's plans]].

* CoolAirship: Bellucio has one, and he needs Frankie (who's a pilot) to fly it for him. It serves as the final boss when Vinnie boards it at the climax of his fight, protected by heavy armor and machine guns.

* DeadlyGas: Soldiers throw gas grenades more liberally than gangsters throw the exploding variety, since their gas masks make them immune.

* KarmicDeath: Vinnie shoves the MadScientist who made the poison into one of his own vats of the stuff.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: By and large, they take after the general Romero conventions, with serving of PlagueZombie on the side. However, they seem to retain certain elements of their former lives - zombies in football gear will attempt to charge-tackle the player, soldier zombies can ''still fire their guns'' (albeit without much accuracy), etc.

* AlcoholIsPoison: Literally. It turns out the mafia's been brewing some bad batches that turns everyone into zombies.

* {{BFG}}: One of the weapons you can get is a Maxim Gun.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Frankie.
* CoolAirship: Bonnacio has one, and he needs Frankie (who's a pilot) to fly it for him. It serves as the final boss, and Vinnie uses it to escape.

* DryCrusader: The Bureau of Prohibition, having realized that Prohibition was a failure, created a poison so they could spike the ingredients of alcohol. It was rejected because the effects were too "extravagant."

* FireBreathingWeapon: A rare inversion of VideogameFlamethrowersSuck.

* GangsterLand: Literally - the only people left alive in Thugtown are mobsters (although the Army's moved in as of late). It's because they drink imported alcohol and not the poisoned local brews, and they have the firepower and numbers to fend off the zombies.

* SetAMookToKillAMook: Humans and zombies will fight each other
* ZombieApocalypse

* DeadlyGas: Soldiers throw gas grenades more liberally than gangsters throw the exploding variety, since their gas masks make them immune. You melt if you die to them.

* FireBreathingWeapon: A rare inversion to VideogameFlamethrowersSuck.

''Guns, Gore, and Cannolli'' is a 2015 run ' n gun. Welcome to Thugtown, a [[TheRoaringTwenties Prohibition-era city]] run by the mafia and plagued with zombies. You control Vinnie Cannoli, a mob enforcer sent to find Frankie "The Fly," a small-time wise guy who went missing during the outbreak.

''Guns, Gore, and Canolli'' is a 2015 run ' n gun. Welcome to Thugtown, a [[TheRoaringTwenties Prohibition-era city]] run by the mafia and plagued with zombies. You control Vinnie Cannoli, a mob enforcer sent to find Frankie "The Fly," a small-time wise guy who went missing during the outbreak.

** Since nukes haven't been invented yet, this is how the Army destroys the city.

* BFG: One of the weapons you can get is a Maxim Gun.

* GangsterLand: Literally - the only people left alive in Thugtown are mobsters (although the Army's moved in as of late). [[spoiler: It's because they drink imported alcohol and not the poisoned local brews.]]

''Guns, Gore, and Canolli'' is a 2015 run ' n gun. Welcome to Thugtown, a [[TheRoaring20s Prohibition-era city]] run by the mafia and plagued with zombies. You control Vinnie Cannoli, a mob enforcer sent to find Frankie "The Fly," a small-time wise guy who went missing during the outbreak.