Machine guns

Tools entity

Large full-auto support weapons with medium to large caliber bullets and high capacity magazines or belts. Some machine guns also have burst and semi-auto options. Larger varieties are vehicle mounted and too bulky for humans to carry alone.

379

games

platforms

Wings of Prey

WIN 2009-12-25

Jagged Alliance Online

WWW 2012? *

Battlefield 4

PS4 2013-11-15

Guns of Icarus Online

WIN 2012-09-30

Hard Reset Redux

WIN 2016-06-03

Singularity

WIN 2010-06-29

Primal Fears

WIN 2013-01-08

Battlestations: Pacific

X360 2009-05-12

Aliens versus Predator 2

WIN 2001-10-22

Strike Vector

WIN 2014-01-28

Rambo

NES 1987-12-04

Battlefield 4

PS3 2013-10-29

Parent:
* Firearms

Related:
* Mounted weapons

Heavy machine guns are mounted on vehicles or on tripods or similar while medium and light machine guns are carried with regular infantry. Light and medium variants often include a pod of one sort or another, though.

Popular examples:
* MG 42
* M249 LMG
* M2 Browning

Fictional examples:
* Smartgun, from Alien franchise

Traits:
* Poor accuracy
* Quite large clip size, possibly belt fed.
* Excels in crowd control

Parent group

Ranged weapons

Games by year

The first Machine guns video game was released in 1984.

Electronic Arts, 2K Games and Bethesda Softworks published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows		198
Linux		55
X360		27
PS3		25
Mac OS X		23
MS-DOS		11
PS4		8
Xbox One		6
Internet Only		3
BeOS		3
PS2		3
Android		2
PS		2
Zeebo		1
NES		1
Amiga		1
iOS		1
Amiga CD32		1
N64		1
Archimedes		1
Xbox		1
NEC PC9801		1
GameCube		1
BBC		1
BSD		1
Electron		1

Most common companies