I think out of all games SIN has the best pistols. It feels good to use and in episodes it 1 hit kills most enemies with a headshot. It makes me wonder why other games cant ever have good pistols. I was playing Doom 3 earlier and the pistol in that game is genuine garbage. Only good for zombies and even then its pretty bad. I am trying to think of other shooters that have genuinely good pistols you would want to use past the first level and the best I can think of is borderlands. I was going to say Borderlands has good pistols but the pestilent defiler is a revolver and not a pistol. I kinda like the FEAR pistols since you can duel wield them and they feel kinda good to use. I am just assuming that they dont want the player feeling too mighty at the start. Obviously you cannot have the player starting the game with a handheld nuke but I think its a real shame that it comes at the expense of making most pistols useless.