Hidden as real treasures waiting to be found by players with more advanced research skills. They are Easter eggs , little secrets generally with a comic touch that are capable of providing a personal vision of the programmer and the designer who decided to include it. Did you know these Easter eggs?
What is an Easter egg in a video game?
They are usually difficult to find, since they are far from the main plot of the game, but on many occasions more than one user has stumbled upon the odd detail that did not fit him too much. The eggs are small gifts with fun touches that developers have hidden in the game for some way and another, the players unexpectedly find.
They can usually be found without doing too much (you just have to look in the right place), and in others you need combinations or specific moments so that they can be seen, although there are some that simply hide between the lines of code in the form of a tribute, and there is no way to find it just by playing the game.
We are going to review some of the most curious Easter eggs that we can find in video games, since there are some that have transcended over time and is in the memory of many players.
The first Easter egg in history?
To know what is considered one of the first Easter eggs we must go back to 1979 to take a look at a game from Atari: Adventure. Among its labyrinthine passageways through which we had to carry a colored dot, there was a special route that led us to a screen where you could read a vertical text that said: “Created by Warren Robinett” The name of the creator of the video game .
John Romero’s face in DOOM 2
On many occasions, the Easter egg translates as a personal signature of one of the programmers who helped in the development of the game, and with DOOM 2’s Easter egg, it is more than sung.
It is a secret that can only be found if we activate the setting of being able to cross the walls of the mapping, since just at the final level of the game in which we have to end the demon, John Romero hid an image of his face behind the final enemy . It is something that cannot be seen playing without tricks, so it will be necessary to activate the classic no clipping to cross the walls.
Duke Nukem and Black Ops II tribute to the Simpsons
Both in Nuke Dukem and in Call of Duty Black Ops II , we will be able to come across a control table of a nuclear power plant in which we will quickly see something that will catch our attention, especially in the second case. In Duke Nuke there is a secret room called Sector 7-G where we can find several donut boxes on the controllers, while in Black Ops II, they show donuts with pink icing on the table of a nuclear power plant.
Newell in Half-Life
We have already seen that creators have their little hearts, and some do not just create a masterpiece. He also wants his public recognition, and for this Gary Newell placed his last name on one of the posters in the corridors of Half-Life, pretending to be Dr Newell.
A bad fall for Altair
Another very nice and slightly mocking Easter egg is the one we can find in The Witcher 2 . If we take a walk with Geralt through one of the regions of the game we can find a cart full of hay along with the corpse of a person dressed in a white robe, a clear reference to Altair’s leaps of faith in the Assassin’s Creed saga. It seems this time the trick didn’t work.
Halo 3 Caveman
Another example of hidden egocentrism is Halo 3 , since in one of the grottos in the game we can find a kind of representation of a family of caves in which we can find a series of quite recognizable faces. The image of the same corresponds to Marcus Lehto himself, who decided to show himself in public in said secret location.
Lost hatch
But if you want to see a really curious reference related to a television series, you will have to go to Just Cause 2 or GTA V . In the first, when you fly over the island over a specific point, your aircraft will explode for no apparent reason, with the exception that when you parachute just above the site of the explosion, you will find a hatch hidden in the jungle similar to the one that we could see in the Lost series.
This same hatch can also be found on the seabed of GTA V, although as many as hundreds of thousands of users want, unfortunately it does not hide anything inside.
The heart of the city of Grand Thef Auto 4
Surely you have ever heard the expression “the heart of the city”. It usually refers to a neighborhood or a local area where a lot of activity is generated, well, the term was represented as it is in Grand Thef Auto IV , since inside the Statue of the Libertas a peculiar heart that beat without stop. To find it, you just had to follow the indication sign “Content without hiding. Here”.
Crysis 2’s party elevator
Something that many players will not forget is the moment of the Crysis 2 elevator . In the game we could find an elevator that did not answer the call, but that after turning on a power panel, it came back to life with the incredible surprise inside. A party with all the letters!
Monkey Island Disc 22
The graphic adventures of before were full of jokes and jokes, so Easter eggs could not be missing. In Monkey Island there was one quite peculiar, since if we interacted with a special trunk, Guybrush invited us to insert disc 22 of the game. Something completely impossible, since Monkey Island was made up of only 4 floppy disks from before.