Gaming "Easter Eggs"

[Cristo]

So I'm currently on a second playthrough of Hitman: Blood Money after re-installing it.

I started the tutorial mission (the theme park one), completed it and moved to the "Newspaper" bit after a mission is completed. I decided to read the whole thing for once and stumbled across this:

http://img105.imagevenue.com/loc906/th_25856_Himan_and_Kane_and_Lynch_122_906lo.jpg (http://img105.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=25856_Himan_and_Kane_and_Lynch_122_9 06lo.jpg)

It's funny because this is the exact storyline of Kane and Lynch and those are the character names and Eidos made it! Ho ho!

Anyway just something fun I wanted to share.

What other game "easter eggs" have you guys come across?

[JonC]

Oh man, I've seen some, but at this moment in time I cannot think of any. That is a good find though Cristo.

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[ArKaiN]

There's that one in Doom where you idclip into some wall on the last level and end up in a room where you can see one of the programmer's head impaled on a spike surrounded by blood.

[Cristo]

Oh man, I've seen some, but at this moment in time I cannot think of any. That is a good fine though Cristo.

Thanks, I was quite excited. It's always really fun finding stuff like this in games, I love it. WoW is a really good game for that, they have tonnes of references and easter eggs in it. Not that I ever played WoW >_>

[snap1o5]

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6131572/index.html
This has some pretty good ones.

[Far]

In city of heroes there are several hidden rooms that you can find though out. One of them is supposed to be the development offices and has cages and things like that.

[HappinessMan]

The Halo 3 Cavemen and the Final Grunt were some weirdass but funny Easter Eggs.

Cavemen:
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/halo/images/thumb/0/00/Monkeypeople.jpg/350px-Monkeypeople.jpg

Final Grunt (Spoilers??) (http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Final_Grunt)

[Hickabod]

On the cover of Kane and Lynch: Special edition there is an artistic picture of the Bank level. In the background is a stand with a poster that says:
"Is Death Sneaking Up On You?
*Picture of Agent47*
Check 101.DK (?) For Insurance Quotes"

Also in Kane and Lynch on the actual Bank Level, if you play as Lynch in Co-op, when he starts shooting all of the hostages one of the police outsides head is literally replaced with a Pig Head

The best place to find all of this sort of stuff is on www.eeggs.com

[Cristo]

The "Check 101.DK" I'm not sure what means.

I think it could be a monetary unit and currency seeing as the Danish currency is called Danske Kroner but that's written as DKr and not DK, so it's probably not money. The internet ending for Denmark is .dk so it might be a website.

[Pachycephelosaurus]

The Halo 3 Cavemen and the Final Grunt were some weirdass but funny Easter Eggs.

Cavemen:

What the hell? What is the context of that? How do you find it? What the hell?

[Matterialize]

I've found a couple in Hellgate: London. There are some NPCs that, although not really hidden, reference stuff.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b259/Matterialize/hgl-stewart.pnghttp://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b259/Matterialize/hgl-joanne.png

The first one is Patrick Stewart, a.k.a. Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek. He's wearing Starfleet colours, he's bald, and of course he has the same name. In the game, talking to him reveals how he received an artificial heart after losing his real one in a fight with some demons, just like Picard (except with aliens). :nerd:

The second one is J.K. Rowling. Although her hair and skin colours are different, in the game she talks about all these stories she's written (which are oddly similar to the Harry Potter novels) and is complaining about how she's lost her little pet imp, named Dobbers or something.

I haven't beaten the game yet, so there might be more I haven't come across.

[I_Smell]

Ratchet and Clank 2's Insomniac Museum.

There's this planet that has a part about half way through it with a fork in the road. If you kill all the enemies at this part and wait till 3am (actually playing the game at 3O'clock in the morning) A bell tower will chime. At this point you have to stand ontop of some water fountain and it'll turn into a teleporter that sends you to another planet with the Insomniacs Museum. Inside is all the shit they didn't use in the game, like bosses and weapons, enemies and vehicles. You can also walk about and listen to the developers talking about random stuff they never included while making the game.

There's even easter eggs inside the museum. It's top.

[Hickabod]

The "Check 101.DK" I'm not sure what means.

I think it could be a monetary unit and currency seeing as the Danish currency is called Danske Kroner but that's written as DKr and not DK, so it's probably not money. The internet ending for Denmark is .dk so it might be a website.

I think its surposed to be a web address, and after a lil research here is the image (http://www.aintitcool.com/images2007/KLFight.jpg). Maybe it says IO instead? Their the developers.

More Kane and Lynch, there are 47 Achievements, and an achievement for 47 headshots, an online map that has a shop called "Mr. 47's Dresser" or something like that (3 references to hitman). Also a level called "Freedom Fighters", Eidos have released a game under that title.

[Cristo]

Hahaha that's really really cool, I didn't know there'd be that many references in Kane and Lynch. You're pretty astute.

[BKS]

In Halo 3, on the level where you are in the base and all hell breaks loose, there is a door you can get to with a marine on one side yelling to the other. They are the voices from Red vs Blue and it's quite the humorous exchange.


In Warcraft 3, if you click on a wandering animal enough times, it explodes.

Also, if you use the Fog of War cheat in the Prologue, you can see an island in the corner with a few pirates on it and an item labeled "Phat Lewt"

More to come.

[peteaboda1]

In Halo 3, on the level where you are in the base and all hell breaks loose, there is a door you can get to with a marine on one side yelling to the other. They are the voices from Red vs Blue and it's quite the humorous exchange.

There are actually similar but different sequences for each difficulty of that.

I'm surprised Portal's the cake is a lie hasn't been mentioned. Or is that even considered an easter egg?

[Assassin]

Whoa, those cavemen are creepy. I haven't seen neither that or the Grunt.
Only thing I can think of are a couple things in Oblivion. Like that awesome tiger dude M'aiq that's full of references to the Bethesda forums or other stuff.
In Halo 3, on the level where you are in the base and all hell breaks loose, there is a door you can get to with a marine on one side yelling to the other. They are the voices from Red vs Blue and it's quite the humorous exchange.
Haha I love that part! "I REPEAT, I AM NOT A BRUTE!!"

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Is that the door where one of them is asking for the password? That made me laugh.

[takesoffhat]

Ratchet and Clank 2's Insomniac Museum.

There's this planet that has a part about half way through it with a fork in the road. If you kill all the enemies at this part and wait till 3am (actually playing the game at 3O'clock in the morning) A bell tower will chime. At this point you have to stand ontop of some water fountain and it'll turn into a teleporter that sends you to another planet with the Insomniacs Museum. Inside is all the shit they didn't use in the game, like bosses and weapons, enemies and vehicles. You can also walk about and listen to the developers talking about random stuff they never included while making the game.

There's even easter eggs inside the museum. It's top.

Pretty much the same thing happens in the third game. There's a planet with a bunch of roms that have balconies that you can go up to, one of them has a teleporter that says that it isn't working, but to come back later. If you go to it at 3 it takes you to the museum that has all sorts of crazy stuff, even lets you go on a race track they designed but didn't have enough time to put in the game.

[Spiffy13]

In Everquest there is a city called Qeynos. Everquest was originally created by a company named Verrent, which pretty much gives away that this easter egg wasn't intentional, but Verrent eventually sold Everquest to Sony. Qeynos=SonyEQ backwards.

Also, there is a kid in Hellgate: London who has a mechanical leg (referance to Wirt from Diablo 1).

[hardcoresk8r69]

In Golden Eye 64. On the first level when you pick up the sniper rifle and you press i think a 3 times consecutively(Maybe you do it another way but I did it like 6 years ago). You get a paintbrush that you can use to hit people with.

I believe there are multiple ways to get it because this guy did it a different way.

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/n64-goldeneye-007-tricks/878064840

[fionnrokz]

In fable for xbox, when you're in the jail and u get peoples heads off, they look like bill gates.. im not sure which enemy it is but its funny

[whangadude]

I love the one in GTA san Andreas were u go to the top of the gaint bridge and it has written up there "there are no easter eggs up here" best easter egg ive ever found

[Seriodor]

Ratchet and Clank 2's Insomniac Museum.

There's this planet that has a part about half way through it with a fork in the road. If you kill all the enemies at this part and wait till 3am (actually playing the game at 3O'clock in the morning) A bell tower will chime. At this point you have to stand ontop of some water fountain and it'll turn into a teleporter that sends you to another planet with the Insomniacs Museum. Inside is all the shit they didn't use in the game, like bosses and weapons, enemies and vehicles. You can also walk about and listen to the developers talking about random stuff they never included while making the game.

There's even easter eggs inside the museum. It's top.

Theres an easier way. On the same planet theres a grinding sequence, and when you get to the third rail where you have to dodge the electrical discharge from transistors, run right into one of the transistors, and use the jetpack to fly to the bit of land you see to the left (it shows up on the map as grey, unreachable land). Go to the only building on this land, and walk around on it, till you fall through the floor, go to the center, and jump up, you sill have to fight the 4 waves of enemies though.

Also, in Ratchet and Clank 1, if you go to the lady that lets you enter the first hoverboard race and start doing sideflips in front of her, her breasts get bigger and bigger. You can get them back to normal by crounching below her breasts.

[Mr. Owl]

Best easter egg I ever found was in Fable for xbox, in the big grave yard that is next to the cullis gate thing, in the center of the grave yard on of the tomb stones reads "Here lies Captain Jack Sparrow." Thought that was pretty fricken cool when I found it.

[iGavin]

Here's some Halo 3 easter eggs vids I found on Youtube. I liked 'em, hope you do too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjslCm27hcg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5QnDtMpoZY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM1xC1lNNPo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxkO_bgCtmY

[BKS]

Best easter egg I ever found was in Fable for xbox, in the big grave yard that is next to the cullis gate thing, in the center of the grave yard on of the tomb stones reads "Here lies Captain Jack Sparrow." Thought that was pretty fricken cool when I found it.

On terms of Fable, when you need to hit the talking rocks to open the Demon Door, in stead of Spelling out "H-I-T-S", hit in the the order of "S-H-I-T" and the game swears at you, then you get attacked by wolves.

[junglebunny]

There's that one in Doom where you idclip into some wall on the last level and end up in a room where you can see one of the programmer's head impaled on a spike surrounded by blood.

Yeah, and then you chainsaw him in the face and beat the game. I always thought thats how you win...

[Hickabod]

On the Streets of Japan level in Kane & Lynch there are some walls and boxes with the Hitman Contracts poster on them, their quite low resolution oddly enough.

Oh here is a good one too, God of War armour in Heavenly Sword
Link (http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/3657/25102007108dg3.jpg)

I also heard there are a couple of Lost Easter Eggs on Half Life 2: Episode 2. You all know how much I bum lost so expect pics soon!

[HappinessMan]

Here's some Halo 3 easter eggs vids I found on Youtube. I liked 'em, hope you do too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjslCm27hcg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5QnDtMpoZY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM1xC1lNNPo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxkO_bgCtmY

1. Not an easter egg, its a glitch.
2. Thank god those annoying voices are gone, the first video I saw with this had some idiots screaming into the mic.
3. Already posted.
4. Music is annoyin' but its pretty cool they added that much level of detail.

[Knight of Cydonia]

Here is one for all WII players. Start playing WII sports and click on tennis. Enter the game and then chose your character. When it tells you to press A and B press 1 and 2. Continue holding down until you are selecting what mode to play. This unlocks the blue training courts to play on.

[Besh]

Morrowind for PC possibly has the largest collection of easter eggs I have come across.
1. There is a place called Marrowaks Spine (Poke'mon)
2. There is a place called Weepinbell Hall (Poke'mon also)
3. There is a cactus named Marty who talks
4. There is a character called Mai'q the Liar who tells funny lies
5. There is a tomb with the body of Indiana Jones in it
6. There is a body of a dead argonian (lizard man thing) who's name is Pop Jeh, which is a reference to one of the producers of the game

[Skrunch2050]

Whoa, those cavemen are creepy. I haven't seen neither that or the Grunt.
Only thing I can think of are a couple things in Oblivion. Like that awesome tiger dude M'aiq that's full of references to the Bethesda forums or other stuff.

Haha I love that part! "I REPEAT, I AM NOT A BRUTE!!"
Lol as i read this i am talking to M'aiq and he just told me all about crossbows. Coincidence, I think not. *twang* (me shooting M'aiq with the crossbow he 'gave' me).

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[CreamScreamer]

In Team Fortress 2, in one of the spawn rooms on 2fort, there are shelves with stuff for each class on them. On the one for the pyro, there is a little purse with a flower on it. That's the only one that I can think of that hasn't been said yet.

[Desert]

At 2Fort, there's (oh, in Team Fortess 2 by the way) a zombie whatever thing from Half Life 2 by the fence at the bridge. And I forget who, in Half Life 2, talking about the 'device' from Portal.

[BKS]

In The Secret of Monkey Island, when Guybrush finds himself underwater, if you do not escape in 10 minutes, the length of time Guybrush can hold his breath, he dies. Another "death" occurs in the game is when you happen to come across a "rubber tree", you fall off the edge of the cliff. A restart/quit menu comes up, only to be interrupted by Guybrush flying back into the air due to the rubber tree's bouncy qualities.


One last Monkey Island one, Guybrush's trainer, who teaches him how to fight and what not, is named Cort, a reference to The Dark Tower by Stephen King. The names are the same, along with the scarred face and mangled body.




In World of Warcraft, there are billions of reference. However, there is a quest where you help a gnome named Tyrion, along with a bunch of Alliance NPCs called The Dark Watch, if I do recall. These are both references to the George R.R. Martin series "A Song of Ice and Fire"

[Assassin]

In the last Princess Barbies' Adventure when you go over the bridge of Bumblebee Castle in Sunflora County, if you look to the left you can see a vague reference to My Little Pony

[McDaniel_Boy10]

In GTA Vice city their is a heliport downtown and you jump from that into a window of a building next to the heliport. There you will find a chocolate egg that says "Happy Easter"! And in San Andreas you enter Zero's RC shop and there are toys of Tommy Vercetti from Vice City.

[Benjaman]

There are SO many in the Elder Scroll games. In Morrowind, Divath Fyr is the hero of Daggerfall (TES:2), because he has the amulet you get near the end of the game AND he was talking about events and how he was a hero and stuff. There's also a plant in Jabasha's Rare Books in Vivec named 'Charles the Plant'. Like someone posted above, there's ALOT of Pokemon references, like the dead adventurer whose name is 'Peke Atchoo'

In Oblivion, there's a statue of Clavicus Vile and his dog Burba (spelled something like that), and on the statue, in Daedric, is the phrase 'A Scamp Who Dealt With Orcs', which is referring to Creeper, the lovable merchant scamp who sold his wares in a Orc mansion in Morrowind. The Boots of Springheel Jack are also part of a quest with a man named 'Jackben Imble', who lives in the Imperial City Elven District. :facts:

[Rainbird]

I think its surposed to be a web address, and after a lil research here is the image (http://www.aintitcool.com/images2007/KLFight.jpg). Maybe it says IO instead? Their the developers.

More Kane and Lynch, there are 47 Achievements, and an achievement for 47 headshots, an online map that has a shop called "Mr. 47's Dresser" or something like that (3 references to hitman). Also a level called "Freedom Fighters", Eidos have released a game under that title.

It is definetly IOI.dk
The developers of K&L are IO Interactive, and they are danish (hence the .dk)
Oh, and Freedom Fighters was also developed by IO Interactive :)

[Cristo]

In World of Warcraft, there are billions of reference. However, there is a quest where you help a gnome named Tyrion, along with a bunch of Alliance NPCs called The Dark Watch, if I do recall. These are both references to the George R.R. Martin series "A Song of Ice and Fire"

It's The Night Watch and I think they patrol in Duskwood? But I remember that, thought it was quite funny.

The Boots of Springheel Jack are also part of a quest with a man named 'Jackben Imble', who lives in the Imperial City Elven District.

I'm going to assume that it's not a coincidence that Jackben Imble spells out Jack Be Nimble right? Since those boots give you better jumping stats.

[docmartens]

In Doom, one of the torture scenes you can find has a bunch of Commander Keen's hanging by nooses.

[Benjaman]

I'm going to assume that it's not a coincidence that Jackben Imble spells out Jack Be Nimble right? Since those boots give you better jumping stats.
That was the easter egg I was pointing out, I was hoping people would realize it was Jack Be Nimble, but thanks for pointing it out anyway.

[Couch]

I was just in the middle of a game of Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars when I spotted a certain someone (http://tinyurl.com/69ggor) on the hologram billboard. It's Havoc (http://tinyurl.com/6bsug7), from Command and Conquer Renegade!

[The-Other-Me]

What?

I've discovered several Easter Eggs in Portal, most of which involve getting stuck. But in one instance in one of the early test chambers, you can make clever use of the two storage cubes and with some tricky crouch-jumps or duck jumps you can place one on top of the other and get to the end of the level, and GLADoS speaks "You're not a good person, you know" which should have only been played nearer the end. I was chuffed with finding that.

Also in my noclip advantues, in one of the late test chambers, where you elarn the double fling, there is a half completed unused part of the map. Very strange.

Theres also the aperture science website which holds many trinkets.

In Half Life 2, it's not exactly an easter egg, but noclip is fun, especially during sequences with People on screen. You can learn a bit more than you should by taking a peek at these during episode one and two.

Also at the beginning of half life 2 if noclip out of the train, you can find a re-rendered version of the test chamber from the biginning of half life one, and a few other things, and you can kill breen, preventing any further announcements about city 17 until the next load, which is amusing..

Oh and in Manchester, in the UK, theres an easter egg, look:

Yes I admit I'm a HL2 nerd. (http://www.coachbarrow.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Manchester_shopping_Sept_2006_004.jpg)

[Asdf]

In most of the call of duty games, Captain Price seems to be an easter egg. He's been in World War 2, and the SAS, with his kick ass handlebar mustache. God damn immortal he is.

[Cristo]

Holy shit you're right asdf.

There's a mission in CoD2 (??) where you have to save him from a French chateau occupied by the Germans.

[Couch]

In most of the call of duty games, Captain Price seems to be an easter egg. He's been in World War 2, and the SAS, with his kick ass handlebar mustache. God damn immortal he is.

If you've finished the COD4 singleplayer, then you should know just how mortal he really is. :wail:

[MrDoctor]

In Gears of War on rooftops if you throw a smoke grenade through the broken windows right across from the hammer, you can see a dead guy taking a crap.

[tomeh_love]

Not sure if anyone mentioned it but...
There's an easter egg in Half Life 2: Episode 2.
After meeting with the Vort in the White Forest Base there's a little gap in the wall.
Look in and what do you find? A lovely little easter egg is what!
... The Lost station. With a Dharma/White Forest logo. Nothing much.

Also: Halo: Combat Evolved there's another grunt on the last level saying how hungry he is... etc etc.
Uhmm... Not sure about much else. I know I've seen like a million but cant think of them.

I know there's loads in Halo 3, though. Like... The jumping programmer in his undies. :D

[Prawnatron]

In Gears of War on rooftops if you throw a smoke grenade through the broken windows right across from the hammer, you can see a dead guy taking a crap.

Really?! I wanna see some evidence.

[/.\]

In God Hand for PS2, there's a miniboss early in the game called Mr. Gold and Mr. Silver. They're essentially two incredibly gay old guys who dance around in skimpy costumes and try to butt-bounce you. Now, in God Hand you have a move called the "Ball Buster," which does exactly what you think it does. however, it doesn't work on Mr. Silver for some reason.

If you examine his body after defeating him, the main character will say, "Looks like he's not packing any heat. He must've lost his balls in the war."

Best goddamm game ever.

[Dresden]

In the game Portal, if you look carefully at the random text and gibberish scrolling on computer screens, you'll notice hidden in it all the recipe for Cake. Yep.

Morrowind of course had so many Easter Eggs. M'aiq the Liar. Eltonbrand. The Fat Lute. The whole quest for the Spear of Bitter Mercy (ok, not an easter egg, but still frickin' weird).

Halo 3. Not easter eggs per say, but nobody that's not a Firefly fan would catch them. Nathan Fillion (Malcolm Reynolds) voiced one of the sergeants, and the character was even named Sergeant Reynolds. There are several other Firefly references made at times if you listen closely, made by him, Alan Tudyk (Wash) and Adam Baldwin (Jayne) who also did marine voices.

Half-Life 2... how about every instance where it's possible to see the G-Man outside of scenes where he's talking to you? Like one in particular, when in Nova Prospekt, you can look at one of the security monitors and see him walk up to a window next to a closed door and look through it for a second.

[Pieman]

In Gears of War on rooftops if you throw a smoke grenade through the broken windows right across from the hammer, you can see a dead guy taking a crap.

Its easier to just shoot near the guy with the hammer, its a much better view.
In the game Portal, if you look carefully at the random text and gibberish scrolling on computer screens, you'll notice hidden in it all the recipe for Cake. Yep.
Also at the end of the game when you're fighting GlaDOS and blowing the shit out of her with the missles, one of the balls that falls down starts reciting the cake recipe.

[Pelican Man]

Halo 3.

Has anyone else seen the Easter Egg in Crow's Nest or whatever it's called, where the soldier is at a door, and gets asked a password?

[Skrunch2050]

That was the easter egg I was pointing out, I was hoping people would realize it was Jack Be Nimble, but thanks for pointing it out anyway.
Holy crap and i've always wondered why that guy's name sounded familiar... I just can't believe i didn't pick that up, Benjaman; you're good, or you're overestimating our solving skills. :lol: