History PlayingWith / UnusableEnemyEquipment

* '''Enforced''': The game writers wanted better weaponry to be difficult to acquire, which is hard when he can just scoop up an {{Elite Mook}}'s {{BFG}} after the first fight.

* '''Deconstructed''': Drake favors his [[DropTheHammer vibro-hammer]], so much so that he's not willing to use anything else. But he loses his hammer. It doesn't end well.

** Drake fights enemies which while tougher have vastly inferior equipment. They have spears, flintlocks, and muskets (and unreliable in the case of the black powder weapons) that neither he nor the player would want to use anyway when his even his Vibrohammer's weak infinite ammo sonic blaster is better.

** [[OnSiteProcuerement Drake's ''only'' source of supplies is whatever his opponents drop.]]

** Drake's ''only'' source of supplies is whatever his opponents drop.

* '''Enforced''': The game-writers wanted better weaponry to be difficult to acquire, which is hard when he can just scoop up an {{Elite Mook}}'s {{BFG}} after the first fight.

%%* '''Implied''': ???

* '''Subverted''': Drake kills an EliteMook and immediately scoops up his flamethrower.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Drake initially fights human opponents who drop usable weapons - but after the zombie outbreak, his inhuman opponents fight with their bare hands, and don't drop usable weapons. When he reaches the headquarters of the organization responsible, his hammer breaks, and all his supplies must be looted from the corpses of his enemies.

* '''Downplayed''': Drake fights enemies which while tougher have vastly inferior equipment. They have spears, flintlocks, and muskets (and unreliable in the case of the black powder weapons) that neither he nor the player would want to use anyway when his even his Vibrohammer's weak infinite ammo sonic blaster is better.

* '''Exploited''': The [[EliteMook Elite Mooks]] attack Drake when he is carrying few or no weapons, knowing he won't somehow kill one of them and use their weapon.

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': Drake favors his [[DropTheHammer vibro-hammer]], so much so that he's not willing to use anything else. But he loses his hammer. It doesn't end well.
* '''Reconstructed''': Drake's [[EmpathicWeapon vibro-hammer]] powers up as he uses it, so he doesn't want to weaken his primary weapon by using his enemies' guns.

* '''Played For Laughs:''' The villains have state-of-the art [[SwissArmyWeapon multi-function weapons]] while Drake only has a pointy stick. And much to his chagrin, whenever Drake tries to take one of said weapons, they just [[EverythingFades dissolve into mist]].
* '''Played For Drama:''' Drake is barely scraping by, outmanned and outgunned by the vast forces of the enemy. Their weaponry is passcode-locked and thus impossible for him to use, forcing him to scrounge and search desperately for ''anything'' he ''can'' use.

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* '''Justified''': Enemies fight with parts of their bodies - Drake literally can't use them, as his biology is different from his that of his alien opponents.

* '''Inverted''': Enemies can disarm Drake and use his dropped weapons against him.

* '''Enforced''': The game-writers wanted better weaponry to be difficult to acquire, which is hard when he can just scoop up an {{Elite Mook}}'s doom-blaster after the first fight.

* '''Enforced''': Drake's ''only'' source of supplies is whatever his opponents drop.