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Ultimately, rayguns have whatever properties are required for their dramatic purpose. They bear little resemblance to real-world directed-energy weapons, even if they are given the names of existing technologies such as lasers, masers, or particle beams. [2] This can be compared with real-type firearms as commonly depicted by action movies, as tending infallibly to hit whatever they are aimed at (when wielded by the heroes) and seldom depleting their ammunition. [8] All three of these longtime veterans were ecstatic to hear that an official version of the Ray Gun is being made for the Call of Duty community.

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Visible barrel recoil. This would only happen if the momentum of the beam were comparable to that of a bullet shot from a gun. Van Riper, A. Bowdoin (2002). Science in popular culture: a reference guide. Westport: Greenwood Press. p.45. ISBN 0-313-31822-0. Rayguns by their various names have various sizes and forms: pistol-like; two-handed (often called a rifle); mounted on a vehicle; artillery-sized mounted on a spaceship or space base or asteroid or planet. A very early example of a raygun is the Heat-Ray featured in H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds (1898). [2] Science fiction during the 1920s described death rays. Early science fiction often described or depicted raygun beams making bright light and loud noise like lightning or large electric arcs. This article may be written from a fan's point of view, rather than a neutral point of view. Please clean it up to conform to a higher standard of quality, and to make it neutral in tone. ( January 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

One of the favorite part of my job is the wonder weapons, and I owe a lot to the Ray Gun,” Maxwell said, “It’s an amazing feeling; I feel emotionally tied to the Ray Gun, because it was made at a time of my career where I was very young and naïve, and to see it come to life alongside its longevity tied to the Zombies mode it just great. It’s a testament to all the designers and everyone who worked on Zombies, and I’m extremely happy and proud to see this happen.” Batteries not included. Gun requires three button cell batteries, Size AG13. Base requires two AA batteries. His first Call of Duty game was World at War, where he was responsible for Zombies’ sound design, including the Ray Gun. “The full reload sequence was my first, 100% owned sound design that was tossed into the game,” he said, “and that reload noise relatively stayed the same up until this day.” Few people know its history better than Treyarch Senior Lead Artist Maxwell Porter, who started as an environment artist on Call of Duty® 2: Big Red One before becoming a weapons artist for Call of Duty® 3. Ultimately, he became the only weapons artist for Call of Duty: World at War .Ray guns in movies are often shown as shooting discrete pulses of energy visible from off-axis, traveling slowly enough for people to see them emerge, or even for the target to evade them, [2] although real-life laser light is invisible from off-axis and travels at the speed of light. This effect could sometimes be attributed to the beam heating atmosphere that it was passing through. A possible evasion tactic is dodging the firing axis of the gun, theorized in the early story of Mobile Suit Gundam by the character Char Aznable when he first encountered the series protagonist's machine's beam rifle and seemingly dodging it without any difficulty. Soon after the invention of lasers during 1960, such devices became briefly fashionable as a directed-energy weapon for science fiction stories. For instance, characters of the Lost in Space TV series (1965–1968) and of the Star Trek pilot episode " The Cage" (1964) carried handheld laser weapons. [7] In his book Physics of the Impossible, Michio Kaku used gamma ray bursts as an evidence to illustrate that extremely powerful rayguns such as the Death Star's primary weapon in the Star Wars franchise do not violate known physical laws and theories. He further analyses the problem of rayguns' power sources.