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It's nearly Easter! You know, the time where it's completely OK to gorge on cr�me eggs till your blood turns to chocolate, your eyes start secreting fondant filling and you keel over and collapse as a result of your euphoric chocolate eating frenzy.Easter Eggs aren't just chocolaty treats though. In games, they take different shapes. They could be a hidden reference to another game, a different developer or something else entirely unexpected.
Gaming Easter Eggs gift you with a brief moment of discovery as you piece the connection together. A spark occurs, and your smile spreads from ear to ear. "I know what this means!" you cry inside your own little head, feeling like the cleverest person in the world, but not wanting to outwardly express your joy for fear of seeming odd. Then, just like that, you're back in the game, shooting stuff, driving cars or slashing monsters.
Here's a brief list of some of our favourite video game Easter Eggs to keep your curious brains ticking across the holiday weekend. Obviously, there's hundreds of classic video games crammed with Easter Eggs, but they're all well catalogued, so we've decided to pick a few from recent games.
We're sure you've got hundreds to share with us, too, so leave them in the comments below for your fellow readers...
DEAD SPACEWarning: Spoilers ahead
Dead Space mostly had us soiling our pants, but did you ever notice the connection between chapter names?
An observant eye would've noticed that the first letter of each chapter spells out a rather ominous message: NICOLEISDEAD.
Of course, had you noticed that then you would have spoiled the game for yourself. Nicole was protagonist Isaac's beloved girlfriend, who - for the majority of Dead Space - you were led to believe was alive. That is until the game did a psychedelic twisting flip on you and revealed your gorgeous sweetheart had been dead the whole time; she topped herself before the events of the game had even started. Gutted, right?!
1 2 3 4 5 Next page Recommended Links From The Web Comments 12 comments so far... Post a comment Report this post Reply with quote tmulford on 6 Apr '12 said:No mention of secret cow levels?
Report this post Reply with quote Alasdaire on 6 Apr '12 said:Making the guards do handstands on the original Medal of Honour. You looked out of the window in the room where the guards were playing cards and looked at the two guards standing on the floor below. Pressing space made them do handstands....!!
Report this post Reply with quote BenThomasFoster on 6 Apr '12 said:all dem modern games. Dead Space yes, Fallout 3 yes, but the rest is a no.
They aren't spectacular enough easter eggs to be on the top 5. G-Man showing up in all levels of Half Life 2 etc etc now thats an easter egg
Report this post Reply with quote gmcb007 on 6 Apr '12 said: Ahh yes the amazing F3 Alien Gun. An absolute brute of the wastes. Thankfully the DLCs added much more ammo and guns.
But c'mon CVG how did you leave out Vice City's actual easter egg? Now that was a classic!
Report this post Reply with quote beemoh on 6 Apr '12 said:I wonder if the NICOLEISDEAD thing carries over to the game in other languages- obviously that text specifically might not work in foreign, and it might be that the equivalent words locally might not fit into the same number of letters, if the character is still called Nicole at all.
PAPADECEASED might work in France. It'd amuse some bilingual people working at Renault, anyway.
Report this post Reply with quote STE MO on 6 Apr '12 said:Rainbow 6 Vegas had one where you would shoot a coke can and an advert would appear on the screen above your head
Report this post Reply with quote stickyfiddle on 6 Apr '12 said: Skyrim- Temba Wide-Arm in Ivarstead.
Beats any flavour of pick-axe for me 
The top of the mountain with the pick axe isn't locked just hard to get to. Too much time on your hands and you can get there straight away going up the back of the mountain and around the blocks.
Report this post Reply with quote kreemi on 7 Apr '12 said:The top of the mountain with the pick axe isn't locked just hard to get to. Too much time on your hands and you can get there straight away going up the back of the mountain and around the blocks.
Ah, Memories.
Report this post Reply with quote MANYOO4EVA on 7 Apr '12 said:KOTOR is the best RPG ever and took me 80 hours to complete.
I want a HD remake of that game, as well as number 2 (which was ok) and then a full on third game.
Come on Bioware, you've finished ME3 (apart from DLC) now do KOTOR 3.
Probably never happen as they are now with EA.
Report this post Reply with quote evilhippo on 7 Apr '12 said: "...with a pickaxe named after Notch."
What does this mean? 
Report this post Reply with quote djreplay on 7 Apr '12 said: "...with a pickaxe named after Notch."
What does this mean?
Notch is the nickname of the guy who created Minecraft.
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