There are a wide variety of weapons available in Fallout 3, ranging from standard pistols and rifles to plasma rifles and frag mines. Unlike many first-person shooters and role-playing games, the player has access to powerful weapons from the beginning of the game. However, many of them are broken or in need of repair, and the player character won't have the ability to make full use of them right away.IGN: Fallout 3 Week: Tools of Survival (September 22, 2008)

One weapon in particular, the Rock-It Launcher demo'd at the Microsoft E3 2008 press conference, can turn any random object found in the game world into a weapon.GameTrailers.com: Fallout 3 E3 2008: Microsoft Press Conference (Time: 7:52)

More standard weapons include pistols, submachine guns and sniper rifles. There are also sci-fi weapons, such as laser rifles and alien blasters, as well as grenades, mines and brass knuckles.Planet Fallout: Fallout 3 Weapons

• 10mm Pistol
• 10mm Submachine Gun
• Sydney's 10mm "Ultra" SMG
• Scoped .44 Magnum Revolver
• .32 Pistol
• Zhu-Rong v418 Chinese Pistol
• Assault Rifle
• BB Gun
• Chinese Assault Rifle
• Combat Shotgun
• The Terrible Shotgun
• Hunting Rifle
• Ol' Painless
• Sniper Rifle
• Reservist's Rifle
• Sawed-off Shotgun
• Lincoln Repeater
• Silenced Pistol

• Flamer
• Minigun
• Eugene
• Missile Launcher
• Fat Man

• Plasma Pistol
• Plasma Rifle
• Laser Pistol
• Smuggler's End
• Laser Rifle
• Gatling Laser
• Vengence
• Mesmetron
• Alien Blaster

• Baseball Bat
• Chinese Officer's Sword
• Vampires Edge
• Combat Knife
• Occam's Razor
• Lead Pipe
• Knife
• Ant's Sting
• Nail Board
• Police Baton
• Spear
• Super Sledge Hammer
• Switchblade
• The Ripper
• Tire Iron
• Highwayman's Friend

• Power Fist
• Fist
• Brass Knuckles
• Spiked Knuckles
• Fisto!
• Deathclaw Gauntlets

• Pulse Grenade
• Frag Grenade
• Frag Mine
• Pulse Mine
• Nuka Grenade
• Plasma Mine

• Railway Rifle
• Rock-it Launcher
• Shishkebob
• Nuka Grenade
• Bottle Cap Mine
• Cryolator
• DartgunPlanet Fallout: Fallout 3 Weapons