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The first gun available in the game is a Luger P08 pistol. Despite having an unthreaded barrel, it can later fit a screw-on suppressor; in a rather odd model glitch, the animation for this being attached has the toggle lock lag slightly behind the rest of the gun model, making it look like it is shaking from side to side.
The Colt M1911A1 first appears in the mission prior to the V2 sabotage, dropped by parachute in a small island across a lake, along with .45 caliber ammunition, which will come in handy for the player when he gets the Thompson as he picks up the M3 in the same level. In one level the player is given a pair of M1911A1 pistols to use, and can dual-wield them. Unusually, they are both reloaded entirely on-screen, rather than just releasing the magazines on-screen and then dropping them out of sight to avoid this as many games do.
The most common weapon used by German soldiers, as usual in fictional WW2 settings, and is the third weapon the player can pick up. Ammunition for the MP40 is extremely common throughout most of the game.
The Sten is presented as a silenced weapon using the same ammunition as the MP40, and must be fired in bursts to prevent it overheating; if it overheats, there is a brief pause when it can't fire and steam [?] escapes from the barrel shroud. On another note, the Elite Guards use this gun as thier standard weapon, which seems strange for the normal player, but those could be "Gerät Potsdam" weapons, identical bootleg copies of the Sten manufactured in Germany for infiltration and sabotage acts.
The player is given a M1A1 Thompson submachine gun by a local Resistance member in a village. The .45 ACP ammo for it is unfortunately extremely rare. However, this is balanced out by making it the most powerful submachine gun of the game, unable to overheat, but boasting about the same power as the Sten. It feeds from 30-round magazines, rather than the other SMGs using 32-round mags.
The first long-ranged weapon the player acquires is a Karabiner 98k. Later in the game a scope can be found for it to make it even more effective; it is sometimes seen in the hands of enemies, but is nothing like as common as the MP40. Oddly is depicted as a semi-automatic rifle with a integral 10 round magazine. (Not really, you can hear the bolt working, but you can´t see anything of it. Some rumors go that the K98k was supposed to be the M1 Garand in the beta version but got changed later, hence the strange reload where the player puts a clip into the integral magazine along with the stripper clip, which disappears after firing.)
Used by German paratroops and as per videogame norms is a supergun; the FG 42 combines the power of a rifle with reasonably fast fire [automatic, but at semi-auto speed] and a scope. In the late game it is more or less the default weapon the player will be using.
The M3 Carbine is presented in the game as an OSA-modified weapon called the "Snooper Rifle" fitted with a suppressor [the barrel is the same shape as the normal M3, however] and using special ammunition, it uses the same scope configuration as the M3, and, surprisingly, is depicted with a realistic black-and-white image rather than the normal red or green tint seen in movies and video games. Ammunition for this weapon is extremely rare, and hardly ever seen. The M3 was first used in the invasion of Okinawa in 1945, two years after the setting of this game.
The Winchester Model 1912 appears as "Shotgun" in the Xbox version of the game, called "Tides of War". It is modeled with an unrealistically long forend.
In several levels mounted MG42 machine guns are present. Like in Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, the rate of fire and distinct report are nowhere near accurate. They have unlimited ammuntion and feed from an invisible ammo source.
Around halway through the game, the player acquires a prototype of a fictional portable belt-fed gatling gun called the "Venom." The tech manual you pick up in the game says it uses 7.92mm saboted light armour piercing rounds. However, this is at odds with the 12.7mm (.50 cal) ammunition the gun uses in game. Like the Sten, it can also overheat when fired for longer periods of time, but thanks to the gatling-type design it takes longer (about 100-150 rounds in Multiplayer, 150-200 in Singleplayer) to do so.
The M2 Flamethrower is used by German troops after Chapter 3. It is a powerful CQC weapon, but finding "ammo" for it can be a problem. The M2 Flamethrower is a devastating weapon, dealing fire damage overtime, turning human enemies into ashes in no time. In MP, it is used by both factions.
Panzerfaust devices are the game's version of a rocket launcher; as usual, these are incorrectly depicted as launching rocket-assisted projectiles rather than being recoilless rifles.
The M18 smoke grenade is used by both Allied and Axis forces in the multiplayer part of the game. It is used to mark the position of a devastating airstrike, killing anything in its way. Only Lieutenants can use the M18 smoke grenade.
