Ok, not the alternate universe, but the one we game in.

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No. 5 Resident Evil 2


Resident Evil games are known for their secret weapons and characters, but perhaps the coolest secret ever in an RE game has to do with the alternate play-through in Resident Evil 2. After completing the game as either Claire or Leon, you can then play a whole new scenario as the opposite character following in the footsteps of and occasionally crossing paths with your original character. This made for four totally unique gameplay experiences in an already awesome game, something that is still unprecedented today.


No. 4 GTA San Andreas/Tomb Raider – Hot Coffee mod, Nude Raider patch


Both of these cheats require a little bit of work on the part of the gamer, and as a result, only the horniest of gamers have ever gone to the trouble. But that doesn’t change the political storm that resulted from the discovery of these two cheats, one that unlocks a cartoony and relatively harmless sex mini game, and one that unclothes what was at one time the biggest sex symbol in gaming. It’s funny that people would take such great offense at a little bit of nakedness in lieu of the graphically violent and depraved cop-killing, gang-banging gameplay of GTA, but we live in a repressed nation. And as for Lara Croft, it’s not as if Tomb Raider was the success it was because of the gameplay.

No. 3 Metal Gear Solid – Psycho Mantis reads your mind

Every once in awhile a game will break the fourth wall and address the player directly, though never in such a bizarre and initially unnerving way as Psycho Mantis, a boss character in Metal Gear Solid. When you first encountered him, he says something about liking Castlevania and Suikoden, as well as making mention of how wise it was for saving often. It's completely weird until you realized that he “reads” this information off of your memory card. Just to be more of a jerk, he then proceeds to “read” your controller inputs, dodging your attacks nine times out of ten, although switching controller ports mixes him up and makes him a sitting duck.

No. 2 Metroid – Suitless Samus

How many young boy's were devastated after finding out that your bad tush missile-launching bounty hunter that just pwned the space pirates and rid the universe of Metroids was A CHICK! This kind of thing just didn’t happen, and the fact that there was no mention of it prior raised many a question, not the least of which was “Is it cool/fun to pretend to be a hot babe for a few hours out of the day?” How many tyrannies in their late twenties are there out in the world today that are still searching for the answer to this question, all thanks to Nintendo and Samus Aran? I believe that this reason that so many women's shoes come in size 13 now.

No. 1 Castlevania: Symphony of the Night – Castle Flip

A few sad losers may have missed this one, which would have resulted in missing out on half of the entire game. Essentially you have to equip an item called “holy glasses” before entering the final boss fight, which will allow you to see the evil force that is secretly controlling your enemy. Defeat this and you unlock an inverted version of the entirety of Dracula’s castle, which is really a marvel of modern game design to work both right side up and upside down without the player having ever guessed that it was built that way. The inverted castle is no repeat either, but rather, a more twisted version with different, tougher enemies and bosses to battle against. The day this secret was discovered, the collective nerdgasm was so powerful that the very Earth trembled, causing minor tremors worldwide and making a vase fall off the fireplace mantle at Bobby Wilcox’s mom’s house in Long Island, New York, which was, according to Bobby, “totally not his fault”