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Mushroom Men: Radical Weapons for Tiny Overkill
We conclude our exploration of Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars' freaky arsenal this week with two categories of weapons: thrusting weapons and Radical! Weapons. The idea of a thrusting weapon is fairly simple to understand: it's a pointy thing of some kind on a stick, and your mushroom uses it to poke at stuff.Radical! Weapons are special weapons that have limited ammunition and are used at certain specific points in a level to obscure a hole in the wall or otherwise destroy an area that is the source of repeated enemy spawns. They're slightly more sadistic and demented than the normal weapons. And by "sadistic and demented" we mean "a flamethrower made from a match, a whistle, an aspirator, and a football bobblehead."%Gallery-34378%%Gallery-18243%
Mushroom Men: Rise of the Exploding Canisters
The final installment in our look at the hacked-together weapons in Mushroom Men: Rise of the Fungi on the DS brings some more second-generation weapons -- items that a Mushroom Man thought was okay at killing other mushrooms, but could be better. And then in come the compressed air canisters and electric motors. It takes a big brain to come up with this kind of stuff, and luckily Mushroom Men happen to have enormous, umbrella-shaped canopies in which to hold said brains.Have a look around our Mushroom Men weapons gallery to learn the "recipes" behind the game's hand-crafted mini-disasterpieces. In addition, two new screenshots from the DS game can be found in our main Mushroom Men gallery.%Gallery-34889%%Gallery-15252%
Mushroom Men: The Tools of the Spore Wars -- Part 2: Slashing
Our second set of weapons from Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars shows how a resourceful mushroom can turn everyday items into slashing weapons. There was always potential for extreme pain in items like bottle caps and pull tabs; it just took the right amount of good old alien-ray-enhanced ingenuity to realize that potential in the form of weaponry. Yes, pretty much the first thing these mushrooms have done after gaining intelligence is to learn how to kill each other. Oh, well, it works out for us, because we'll get to play a game with all these cool weapons in it.In addition to the seven new items in our weapons gallery, our main Mushroom Men gallery has two new screenshots. %Gallery-34378%%Gallery-18243%
Mushroom Men: The Tools of the Spore Wars
Easily one of the most interesting aspects of Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars is its weapon creation system. Since your mushroom warriors are teensy, everyday household items and junk found on the ground can be made into deadly weapons. Mushroom Men's "SCAV" system allows you to combine found items into various types of weapons.This week, we have an exclusive gallery featuring examples of the game's "bashing" weapons -- heavy melee weapons built from seemingly useless items like a pipe, sardine can keys, and even a toy Viking. It's almost guaranteed to give you a new way to look at your living room: as an ad-hoc arsenal in the making. In our main Mushroom Men gallery, we've also got a few new in-game screenshots!%Gallery-34378%%Gallery-18243%
