The best kind of Easter eggs are virtual – here are the best ones you can track down in video games
It’s always a treat when the developers of a game decide to hide a little something special for gamers to look out for along their gaming journey. Coming across well-designed Easter egg is the digital equivalent of finding money on the ground when you’re out for a walk – it just brightens your day.
With that in mind, it’s time to take a look at some of the best hidden secrets ever to be stashed away in some of our favourite games. Ready for the best kind of Easter egg hunt?
Contents:
- Easter egg – GTA: Vice City
- Turkey – Assassin’s Creed 3
- Arkham City blueprints – Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Indy’s remains – Fallout: New Vegas
- Heart of the City – GTA IV
- Cavemen – Halo 3
- Ice cream truck – Hitman: Absolution
- Megalodon – Battlefield 4
- Jar Jar Binks – Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
- Assassin – The Witcher 2
Easter egg – GTA: Vice City
The GTA series’ signature tongue-in-cheek style extends to every aspect of the game – including the Easter eggs. One of Vice City’s best secrets is a literal chocolate egg with “Happy Easter” written on it, which you can find by jumping straight through a solid wall into a hidden room.
Turkey – Assassin’s Creed 3
At the Davenport Homestead, if you press yourself against any surface and whistle, a turkey will appear seemingly out of nowhere. Enter the legendary Konami Code and your feathered friend will don an assassin’s hood. Yet another valiant brother joins the creed.
Arkham City blueprints – Batman: Arkham Asylum
This one was so well hidden that eventually the developers couldn’t keep it in any longer and actually told everyone where to find it! Blowing up a certain wall reveals a secret room with blueprints on the wall for a whole city, teasing the game’s sequel, Arkham City.
Indy’s remains – Fallout: New Vegas
Quite a few people were confused and annoyed by an infamous scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull where the hero survives a nuclear blast by hiding inside a refrigerator. The team at Bethesda decided to provide some satisfaction to fans who were upset about how unrealistic and cartoony this was by adding the charred remains of a man with a fedora inside a fridge to Fallout: New Vegas. Grim, but much more lifelike.
Heart of the City – GTA IV
To find this hidden gem, you have to let your curiosity take the wheel, as the developers themselves have tried to throw players off the scent. If you walk straight through a door at the base of the game’s Statue of Happiness marked “No hidden content this way” and climb a ladder up inside, you’ll discover a huge, beating heart complete with chains and arteries.
Cavemen – Halo 3
Tucked away amid some rocks in the mission “Sierra-117” is a little family of monkeys with unsettlingly human faces. They don’t move or say anything and you can’t kill them, although you do get an achievement for finding them. One of the little fellas is even holding a little cuddly toy. Isn’t that sweet?
Ice cream truck – Hitman: Absolution
The End of the Road mission sets you in the middle of the desert left to choose how to deal with your hapless victim Lenny. If you want to outsource the execution, simply shoot the 5 vultures dotted around the area and stand well back, as an ice cream truck will come ploughing through out of nowhere and flatten the poor fella.
Megalodon – Battlefield 4
For this easter egg, you’re gonna need some teammates. On the Nansha Strike map, if you can get together 10 players and gather on the buoy out on the water, you’ll be treated to quite a sight. An enormous shark will erupt out of the depths, propel itself into the air, and… come crashing down right on top of you and your courageous explorer friends. Totally worth it though!
Jar Jar Binks – Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Now this may surprise you, but not everyone was a huge fan of Jar Jar Binks when he made his appearance in the Phantom Menace. As a result, the developers of the Force Unleashed decided to pay a somewhat cruel tribute to the gungan generalissimo – by featuring him frozen in carbonite with a permanent look of fear etched on his ridiculous face.
Assassin – The Witcher 2
Crossovers in video games are always a blast, especially when they’re taking little digs at each other. In the Witcher 2, Geralt can find a haystack with an unfortunate character decked out in white robes lying next to it, to which he will comment “Guess they’ll never learn”. This is a clear reference to the iconic “leaps of faith” in the Assassin’s Creed series, which see you diving from spectacular heights and landing completely safely in a cart of hay. Guess this time his luck ran out.