Middle-Earth – Shadow of Mordor – Azkâr – Azkâr is a special bow originally made for Celebrimbor, but Talion can use it in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor when he enters the Wraith-world while in Ranged mode. Some of these bows are in games where archery is the main focus, while others just happen to have a good archery component, but either way, these are the top 5 bows in video games and some of the games you most want to seek out if you’re looking for a fun archery experience. The Top 5 Best Overall Bows in Video Games QuiVr isn’t the fullest gameplay experience out there yet, but if you want to feel like you’re wielding a bow and take down enemies at the same time, this is the VR bow we like the most. Your trusty bow will let you take down wave after wave of enemies, with physics designed to feel like actual archery. QuiVr is a multiplayer wave shooter designed specifically to be a fun, accurate archery game. In short, the Predator Bow is one of the best bows in video games–science fiction or otherwise. In single player, it has its own weapon slot, and it is also the only weapon you can fire while Cloaked without using energy. You can’t beat an auto-loading compound bow! The Predator Bow from Crysis 3 is a fan-favorite, with three draw weights you can switch between and four different types of arrows to fire: carbon-impact, electro/shock, airburst fragmentation, and super-thermite. A bow that shoots demonic dragonflies instead of arrows? It doesn’t get much weirder than that. Indeed, if you perform an Umbran Climax while wielding this bow, it fires massive, demonic dragonflies at the enemy. According to its in-game description, the bow comes from a man who metamorphosed into an insect and lives on inside the weapon to fire arrows made of venomous bugs.
The Kafka, a new bow added in Bayonetta 2 and named in honor of Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis,” has a dragonfly-like appearance and shoots poison arrows. Bayonetta is here to prove bows can be very strange. Some are magical some are just plain weird.
If that’s not enough, its bolts can often be recovered intact (and you can upgrade it to make this more likely), which means it’s an incredibly powerful weapon with a ready supply of ammo.
It deals excellent damage with multiple types of ammunition, it is powerful at both short-range and long-range, and a headshot from the crossbow will kill a Splicer in one hit on any difficulty setting. Not only is the crossbow in BioShock one of their favorite video game crossbows, but it’s also considered by many players to be the best BioShock weapon. The Best Crossbow – BioShockĭo crossbows count? They are bows, after all, some might say not really but the top pick for the crossbow in a computer game is BioShock. By the time Pit returned in Kid Icarus: Uprising, the bow was only one of many weapons he used, but in the original two games, it was his primary weapon of choice. Pit has an unlimited supply of arrows and can use Fire Arrows to deal more damage. While he starts out wielding a short-range bow, the Sacred Bow lets him fire arrow much faster and farther. The favorite bow from older games is the enhanced Sacred Bow wielded by Pit in Kid Icarus. Best Retro Game Bow – Kid Icarus – The Sacred Bow There are a comprehensive top 50 of the best bows (and crossbows) ever in video games over at and with their permission, we’ve reproduced the top picks here, but if you want to see the whole list, take a look at the article in the link.
Pop culture loves the bow and arrow and there’s also a good slice of the movie that’s taken up the gauntlet with heroes like Hawkeye and Katniss Everdeen wielding them. The bow is a weapon historian have found in settlements dating back to around 9000 BC. Over the years a good portion of the huge selection of video games available have included the good old bow and arrow and the trend is on the up.