Random 'cutscene' moments are rather cool as well.

Used a police baton against a raider coming at me with a knife. Blocked their attack so they were stunned (blocking a melee attack makes them momentarily vulnerable as they would you if you're blocked) then smacked the knife out of their hand with a power attack (hold down attack and you pull back before charging at the enemy with a full swing) which then followed up with a slowmo view of me backhanding them across the face sending the head flying after they were disarmed.

Was expecting the disarm (always cool to swat weapons out of hand with melee weapons) but the automatic head bat was a nice touch.

Shishkabob is definately one of my favorite melee weapons of carnage and pretty easy to make after doing the Minefield survival mission (which scores you a sniper rifle to boot). The fact that its a flaming sword gives you two 'kill types' when you get a crit overkill. As a sword you chop and cut things like limbs off and as a fire type you can make things gib (aka fly into small unrecognizable chunks). Raider came at me when I was playing around with that weapon and after a block and powerattack I got the satisfying death slowmo of the person getting first cut to pieces (limbs and head flew in all directions) before gibbing (limbs, head, and body then exploded to turn into the much smaller pieces of gore). I had to search for quite a bit before I could find a piece of him large enough to loot (though how I got a full suit of armor, a bat, and some ammo off a piece of meat the size of my fist is beyond me).


What's 'stealth boy' anyhow? I could never get close enough to a hostile to do the pants explosion, but I've done it to random NPCs in town while bored (and after saving) just for giggles. Using different grenades are definately amusing like the pulse and nuka.