Mix And Match Weapon / Video Games

Puts the cut in uppercut.

• One of the weapons in the online RPG AdventureQuest is a Sawed-Off Gunblade, which looks like a flintlock pistol with two two-pronged blades attached on the bottom. The normal attack is slashing, while the rare special attack is a double-barrel shot. Both do fire damage.
  • AdventureQuest 3D inherits these - in fact, there are even odds any kind of pistol will have at least one blade attached somewhere - but so far there isn't a player class which can both shoot and slash or stab with the same weapon, whatever it looks like. This may change in the future.
• In Assassin's Creed II:
  • The hidden blade is upgraded to work not only as a hidden retractable blade for assassinations and general knifing people in a cool way, but also as a gun.
  • There is also a syringe blade that injects poison on contact.
  • At one point it's also upgraded with a poison dart launcher. Then Assassin's Creed: Revelations takes it one step further by adding the "hookblade", although it's a tool for faster climbing rather than killing people. Correct use of the hookblade in the right areas can significantly increase the speed at which you can climb.
  • The Dead Kings DLC of Assassin's Creed: Unity has the Guillotine Gun, which is a grenade launcher combined with an axe.
  • You can get a pair of gunswords in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, if you complete all assassination tasks. They aren't any more deadly than any other pair of blades in the game, but they do provide for some unique finishing moves, such as stabbing a guy and then using a gun blast to quickly get him off the blade.
• Baten Kaitos Origins presents an interesting one. A spear-tipped long-handled battleaxe, with a scythe on the opposite side. It probably wouldn't be very good, but Rule of Cool allows him to beat the unexpecting hell out of you if you aren't prepared.
• Bayonetta introduces the Lt. Col. Kilgore. A pair of rocket launcher tonfas. And Sai-Fung.
• Bloodborne has an entire collection of "Trick Weapons" which have the ability to change into different types of weapons mid-combat. Examples include the Saw Cleaver, which has a serrated blade on the outside when folded to be used as a saw and unfolds into a clean edged cleaver, the Kirkhammer, which is a longsword with an attachable sheath in the form of a huge hammer, and the Reiterpallasch, a rapier/pistol combo with the barrel aimed the same way as the pointy end.
• Lucca from Chrono Trigger apparently has one of these: a small mallet that also functions as a gun and a flamethrower (the last two seem to be located in the mallet's head). "Apparently" means it's not explicitly referred to in-game, but you can totally tell from the battle animations.
• Command & Conquer: Generals:
  • The GLA specializes in this, as their units are hopelessly outmatched by modern US or circa-1970s Chinese units:
    • The Bomb Truck can be loaded with high-explosives, with anthrax or, (unlike the Scud Launcher, which can switch between both with every missile launched) both at the same time, though the cost of outfitting each truck gets prohibitive.
    • Technicals, Toxin Tractors, Quad Cannons and Marauders can run over the wreckage of enemy vehicles and recycle the parts to improve their own armaments. Most dramatic for the Technicals, who go from machine gun to missile launcher and the Marauders, who eventually get a second main gun.
    • Scorpion tanks can be given a surprisingly high-damage rocket against vehicles, while their shells can contain anthrax to greatly increase their efficiency against infantry.
    • The Angry Mob is armed with scavenged pistols (which can be upgraded to AK47s), Molotov Cocktails and rocks. And yet, they are scarily good at tearing down buildings.
  • The Chinese Overlord tank can equip a bunker for five soldiers, an Antiair and Anti-Infantry gatling turret or a propaganda tower that slowly heals all troops around it in addition to its twin main guns. In the expansion, the Emperor comes with a turret pre-installed, leaving room for another upgrade.
  • The US Humvee starts with a machine gun, but can be outfitted with a flying machine-gun-wielding Battle Drone (like all US ground vehicles), a missile launcher, and as loaded infantry fire out the windows, can fire missiles, grenades, sniper rounds...
• Tyranny, the ninth season of Conqueror's Blade, has a sort of medieval Mad Max aesthetic, complete with weapons cobbled together from parts of other weapons. Examples include a poleaxe with a bunch of smaller hatchet heads pinned to a full-length haft; a nodachi whose blade is just a bunch of other blades welded together; and a shortsword which is basically a sawblade lashed to a crowbar.
• Dawn of War: Some units have multiple types of guns mounted to deal with different targets, though only vehicles can use them simultaneously.
  • Imperial Guard, Space Marine tanks (and their stolen ork equivalent) have a main gun and side-mounted heavy bolters/lascannons.
  • Despite being an artillery piece and thus not belonging anywhere near the frontline, the Basilisk has a front-facing heavy bolter in addition to its gigantic Earthshaker cannon.
  • The Tau Commander's XV-22 armor turns him into a Jack of All Stats, giving him a flamethrower against infantry that gets too close, missile launchers against structures and vehicles, and a railgun against everything, and while able to use all three at once, the equipment needs to be rebought if he's killed.
  • Obliterators use heavy bolters against infantry, plasma guns against heavy infantry, and lascannons against vehicles and buildings, all from the same multi-barreled Arm Cannon that was fused with their body.
• Dead Rising 2 allows you to use the magic of duct tape to combine two different weapons into zombie-slaying perfection. Chuck's arsenal includes : Defiler (sledgehammer + fire axe), Knife Gloves (boxing gloves + knives), Boomstick (pitchfork + shotgun) and several more. Dead Rising 3 follows this up by not only adding new combo weapons, but by allowing you to mix-and-match vehicles.
• Dead Space 3: Plasma gun not enough? Add a sub-machine gun to it at any bench. In fact just about any two basic power supply elements can be added to one of two major frame types to create hundreds of different possible weapon combinations. Careful planning can result in some really deadly weapons.
• Yue Ying in Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires uses a weapon◊ that combines a crossbow, knife, and gauntlet.
• The flash shooter Enigmata has a variant: There are three "basic" weapons, and seven "rare" weapons. After picking up a rare weapon, you have to pick up a specific common weapon to get a much stronger fusion weapon.
• While having many secondary weapons for most skills, Lance from EpicBattleFantasy uses his gunblade for normal attacks and certain skills.
• Final Fantasy:
  • In Final Fantasy VIII, gunblades are, as the name suggests, a combination of sword and gun. However, the gun part doesn't fire a projectile; instead, the firing mechanism sends a shock of vibration along the blade, increasing cutting power of the weapon.
    • Soldiers of Esthar have a weapon that's half Pickaxe, half Shotgun.
  • Gunblades reappear in Final Fantasy XIII, this time transforming between a sword mode and a gun mode which does fire actual bullets.
  • They also show up in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and some of the Compilation games as weapons for the bad guys, and look totally ridiculous (shotgun katana, anyone?)
  • They are also the main weapon of the Garlean Empire's forces in Final Fantasy XIV as well, here mainly being rifles with blades built along the barrel. In the expansion Shadowbringers, players can also use gunblades as part of the Gunbreaker tank job. Gunbreaker gunblades function more akin to the weapons seen in VIII: outside of a Sword Beam attack, Gunbreaker gunblades are strictly close-range weapons that do not fire bullets and instead use aether cartridges to flash-heat the blade and increase its cutting power.
• In For Honor, we get the Lawbringer and his poleaxe: a pole weapon that combines the blade of an axe, the point of a spear, and the head of a hammer into one weapon.
• The signature weapon of the Gears of War series is the Lancer, an assault rifle with a chainsaw bayonet.
• While older models in God Eater where either melee or ranged, new types have a BFG turn into a BFS with shield included.
• Gunblades exist in a completely different form in Gungrave Overdose. They're essentially two red katana blades, each of which is attached to a machine pistol. They're also owned by an undead swordsman.
• The Half-Life mod, Rocket Crowbar.
• The Brutes of Halo have a penchant for sticking all manner of sharp objects on their weapons, since their phenomenal strength lets them deal as much damage in melee — if not more — as a shot from one of their guns. From smallest to largest: the Mauler has a small crescent-shaped knife along the hand guard, the Spiker SMG has a pair of hatchet blades, and the eponymous Brute shot is a grenade launcher whose underside is a fusion axe/scythe nearly the length of the gun. Even their Gravity Hammers are bladed!
• In Iji, there are six possible weapon combinations, one corresponding to each main weapon.
• The Gavel from JYDGE has a plethora of fire modes and limited-use special weapons to equip before missions. On top of that, it's got a hammer's head on the end, if all else fails.
• LunarLux: Bella wields a Gun Saber, which allows her to slash the enemy or shoot them with a Photon Cannon.
• The Monster Hunter series:
  • Monster Hunter 2 (dos) introduces the gunlance, which is exactly what it sounds like. The weapon can be used to stab like a traditional lance, but can also fire explosive shells during an attack.
  • Monster Hunter 3 (Tri) introduces the Switch Axe, an axe that can turn into a big sword.
  • Monster Hunter 4 adds yet another with the Charge Blade. It's a sword and shield (the sheath is built into the shield) that can combine together into a large axe.
  • Meanwhile, Gunners have access to Light and Heavy Bowguns, weapons that may look like Automatic Crossbows at first glance, but the muzzle flashes and attachable Hollywood Silencer place them firmly in this category.
• Mortal Kombat X: Kung Jin's bow can be used as a bo staff for close-quarters combat and has a dragon head decoration mounted on the top that breathes fire.
• Nazi Zombies: The map, Mob of the Dead contains the Blundergat, combining the compactness, appearance, and spread of a blunderbuss, with multiple barrels, and the sheer power of a gatling gun. There are also only two of these available, and one must be gain via the Easter Egg, but only if one had a Blundergat in the first place.
• Whenever Nepgear from the Neptunia transforms into Purple Sister, her default Laser Blade turns into a gunblade.
• Ninja Gaiden has Ryu's Kusari-gama, which in form is virtually identical to its real life counterpart. It consists of a small sickle, with a long chain connecting to a weight or spike attached at the hilt. Also, in a more literal interpretation of this trope, we have the Vigoorian Flail, a massive pair of sickles attached at each end by a chain, and wielded much like a set of nunchaku. When used to their fullest in combat, expect Ludicrous Gibs galore.
• No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle:
  • Margaret Moonlight has a pair of weapons called "Le Croissant du Ange" [sic], or The Crescent of Angels. These are sniper rifles with stocks that are scythes.
  • Matt Helms has a fire axe/flamethrower. As a transforming weapon, Nathan Copeland has mechanical arms / boombox rocket launcher. Suda51 was so disappointed that he had to take Nathan out of the first No More Heroes that he was the first boss worked into the second.
• One Finger Death Punch has (mechanically identical to the lightsaber-wielding stages) stages wielding "sparkchaku", which for all intents are lightsaber-nunchaku. They appear to work by keeping the plasma better contained than a lightsaber blade (and inside partially solid matter), causing it to leak out briefly whenever one of the rods makes impact, to similar lethal and dismembering effect. As this means you're still holding them by the parts which kill you if they hit your hand a bit too hard, still a ludicrously impractical weapon. Fun, though.
• The Rangers in Opoona use fairly conventional gunblades as their standard issue. However the title character's Energy Bon-Bon is stronger and so he never uses one.
• Every weapon in Painkiller has a drastically different second firing mode, which makes the seemingly modest five-weapon arsenal much more versatile (it's even possible to combine the primary and secondary firing modes with some weapons). To wit, in Painkiller you have a weedwhacker that fires laser beams, a machine gun that shoots rockets, a grenade launcher that shoots foot-long wooden poles, and of course, a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning.
• As each weapon in Perfect Dark has a secondary fire mode, a few of them fit this trope, but probably the coolest is the Dragon, an assault rifle that just happens to have a proximity mine built in.
  • The Super Dragon combines an assault rifle and a grenade launcher.
  • The RC-P120 gives the user the option of turning on a cloaking device, though this feature eats up ammo like crazy.
  • The Phoenix has the option of turning regular pistol ammo into miniature rockets that explode on contact.
  • Perfect Dark's most (in)famous weapon, the alien FarSight XR-20, combines a One-Hit Kill sniper rifle with a target-seeking X-ray scanner.
• Phantasy Star Zero introduces a hybrid weapon called a "Gunslash" to the series: when used normally, it functions like a sword, but when held in a defensive position, it can fire off spreading projectiles.
• Phantasy Star Online 2 also features Gunslashes, which can now switch between sword and pistol mode. The Gunslashes themselves can be either this or a Morph Weapon.
• Ragnarok Online: swordmace, though it's not too different from any other mace.
• RuneScape has the Ivandis Flail, a silver sickle on a chain attached to a long rod. It IS unwieldy and is meant to be — it was devised as a weapon against mind-reading vampyres, and, unlike all other silver weapons, works PRECISELY BECAUSE neither side knows where exactly the sickle will end up, thus not letting the vampyre perfectly dodge the strike every single time. It also is a Mix-and-Match Weapon in a different, more straight sense. Silver sickles by themselves are used as a focus for casting a certain spell, one that causes select scenery objects to produce items. The rods themselves are used for a different spell, used to hold juvenile vampyres in place. The Ivandis Flail can do both.
• Motonari Mori of Samurai Warriors 3 has a similar crossbow/claws/gauntlet combo. Other examples before and after include Tokugawa Ieyasu (a massive yari whose blade opens on hinges to reveal a cannon), Hojo Ujiyasu (a Sword Cane with a built-in shotgun) and Katakura Kojuuro (a buckler/gauntlet combo hiding a sword scabbard, reserve of knives and a hidden gun.
• Cervantes of Soul Calibur fame is known for Dual Wielding two swords with a pistol built into the hilt of the smaller blade.
• In Strider (2014), Pei Pooh receives a set of hook swords (or some similar Chinese weapon, it seems) with built-in machine guns, which she uses for both slashing and shooting fireballs.
• Vicious, a Hero Antagonist in the Tales Series Gaiden Game Tales of Crestoria, has pistol-blades (which he Dual Wields, naturally), and his animations show him seamlessly switching between slashing attacks and projectile strikes.
• Tiger Road where you are a monk that starts off armed with the "axe" weapon. This weapon is a combination of double-bladed battleaxe and a flail with a long chain. The resulting "axe" weapon has a very large attack circular attack radius in a 2D game, letting it cut down enemies coming at you in all directions, as such every other weapon you pick up is actually worse than your starting axe.
• Several playable characters from the Trails Series use this type of weapon.
  • While Randy Orlando from The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure uses a stun halberd as equippable weapon, one of common choices in Crossbell Police Department, he actually has one weapon he doesn't want to use anymore because it reminded him of his Jaeger days but had to during the "Ao" part of the duology; A mixture of submachine gun and blade called Berserga. Said weapon can be seen in his 3rd S-Craft.
  • Shirley Orlando, member of a jaeger group "Red Constellation" and Randy's cousin, has an even more extreme example. She has a mixture of chainsaw, rifle and flamethrower. All of the weapon's attributes can be seen in her S-Craft.
  • Fie Claussel from The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel uses a pair of pistol swords (or combination of dagger and gun/pistol, your pick). Her crafts arsenal include slashing skill, gun skill or combination of both. This is advantageus since she has higher chance to unbalance enemies from the weapon covering three of four available attack types; slash, thrust and pierce, each with B proficiency.
  • Nacht Weiss from Akatsuki no Kiseki uses a standard bayonet as his weapon.
  • Juna Crawford, a character in Trails of Cold Steel III uses a weapon called "Gunbreaker", a mixture of guns and tonfas. She can also change her combat style between "strike mode" (close range with higher damage and defensive capabilities) and "gunner mode" (long range with AoE, but lower damage).
• Warframe has a fondness for exotic weapons, so it's not surprising that quite a few of these pop up.
  • The gunblade category of melee weapons features the Redeemer shotgun-sword and the Sarpa burst rifle-sword, which can fire off shots as charged attacks or as part of combos from the gunblade Stances.
  • Spearguns are guns that can be thrown as spears. The Grineer-manufactured Javlok lobs fireballs when fired normally and explodes when thrown. The Corpus-designed Ferrox acts as a sniper rifle that can tether enemies when thrown. The Tenno-created Scourge behaves like a machine gun and emits a field that attracts gunfire to nearby enemies when thrown.
  • The blade and whip category of melee weapons are not conventional Whip Swords but rather are bladed weapons with auxiliary cords attached to the hilt, akin to a kusarigama. The Jat Kusar ups the ante by incorporating rocket boosters into the design.
  • A couple regular whips also stand out in this regard. The Lecta and Secura Lecta are half taser, while the Atterax is tipped with a series of rotary sawblades.
  • The Corufell, a preferred weapon of Citrine, is a heavy scythe that turns itself into a gunblade and launches a blast of energy on heavy attacks like a shotgun, not unlike a scythe from a certain franchise…

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