The whole purpose of cheating, you might think, is to gain an unfair advantage. Formerly passed off scraps of paper in classrooms up and down the country, but now readily available online for the masses to access and enjoy, it’s never been easier for players to gain the upper hand by more unscrupulous means.
However, some cheats are not designed to give players an advantage, but to make the game more varied, weirder or even more challenging. The accepted wisdom dictates that these handy little codes make life an absolute breeze, but plug in any of these combinations and prepare yourself for chaos, confusion and a much, much trickier time of things.
8 GTA 3 and Vice City make your public enemy number 1
Even on the vile streets of Vice of Liberty City, there’s not much danger as players explore the beautifully rendered vistas of two of Rockstar’s most iconic playgrounds. Whether it’s cruising as Tommy Vercetti along the Miami-inspired beach at high speeds or picking random fights outside the downtown bars as Claude Speed, the greatest danger in any game of GTAare you of course.
Not so when NobodyLikesMe is activated. To be used with extreme caution, NobodyLikesMe turns the entire town against the player, meaning men, women and probably children will now hunt Claude or Tommy as if they were a vigilante looking to bring a notorious criminal to justice quickly. Whether you’re run over in the street by furious drivers or hit in the back of the head by innocent-looking civilians, NobodyLikesMe makes players feel like the most hated person in the entire universe.
7 Saints Row 2 – Evil Cars turns the streets upside down
In the same vein as GTA‘s riot cheats sending the whole city into a frenzied collapse of destruction is Evil Cars Saints Row 2‘s way of ensuring that car chaos reigns supreme and chaos dominate the streets of Stilwater. Set out with the discerning and polite pedestrians that once populated the city, only to be replaced by lead-footed maniacs determined to push aside anyone who gets in their way.
If it sounds like a fun idea to turn the streets of Stilwater into your own personal racetrack, Evil Cars makes the game almost unplayable for anyone who actually wants to complete missions and progress through the story. Vehicles actively target the player with deadly intent, whether driving or on foot, making every journey a desperate struggle for survival.
6 King Animals from Age of Empires turns wild animals into Apex Predators
Anyone who has ever played before Age of Empires games will know the almost incomparable frustration that comes with losing a villager at a young age to an annoying predator when gathering resources or just exploring the map. The death of a worker at the hands of a wandering alligator or pesky lion can leave players seriously behind in the race to reach the military ages.
Turning these animals into their ‘king’ versions, in which the creatures become stronger, faster and more resilient, only expands this possibility. Typing in Grantlinkspence converts gazelles, lions, elephants, and alligators into their alpha forms, allowing players to encounter even more dangers in the early game. For more animal fun from the Age of Empires series, Age of Kings provides the pleasantly pointless “Natural Wonders” code that allows players to take control of only animal units. If beating the game’s AI is tricky enough with champions and paladins, the real test of a master is to do it with a herd of gazelles and some wild turkeys.
5 Red Dead Redemption 2 offers permanent drunken fun
The Red Dead Redemption 2 campaign is one of the most enjoyable, if lengthy, RPG story modes in recent memory, a mammoth epic that puts most of its AAA contemporaries firmly in the shadows. There are dozens of memorable moments to choose from across the street Red Dead 2‘s sprawling campaign, from series about electric train robberies to John Marston’s triumphant return for revenge at the game’s first climax.
In a campaign that can often be as melancholic as it is emotionally draining, there are welcome moments of levity amid the decline and fall of the Van der Linde gang. A mission where Lenny and Arthur get extremely drunk at a local watering hole leads to heartwarming antics between the pair, a happy place where we all wish we could return. However, thanks to the cheat A Fool on Command, Arthur can be made drunk on command, turning the game world from a bright, sharp recreation of the Old West to a hazy dreamscape of undulating colors and unwanted movement. Anyone who’s had a few too many knows it’s hard enough finding your way home from a night out, let alone conquering the Wild West.
4 Goldeneye 007’s DK mode is absurdly pointless
One of the most infamous cheat codes of all time is also one of the most useless. To this day, no one can tell exactly what the staff of British developer Rare were thinking when they decided to write the code for their now infamous “Donkey Kong” modification for the excellent FPS clutch. Golden Eye 007.
The DK mode cheat has the effect of giving each NPC and enemy an oversized skull and extra long arms, making everyone look like ape-human hybrids straight from The Island of Dr. Moreau. While it doesn’t have much of an effect on the actual gameplay, it’s a great diversion to immerse yourself in the role of the world’s most famous secret agent, all the while wondering what kind of horrific accident happened to kill Bond’s enemies in these bobble-headed monstrosities. An active impediment? Possibly not. Distracting? Definitely.
3 Ecco the dolphin’s deadly octopus kills a dangerous enemy
Games like Ecco the dolphin are not really made anymore, especially not in the mainstream market. First released on the Sega Genesis in 1992, the nautical-themed hit followed the adventures of the titular Ecco as he navigates his way through the ocean and travels in time to fight aliens that threaten Earth’s entire water supply. to harvest.
success at Ecco the dolphin relies on avoiding the various dangers, traps, and pitfalls of the game’s beautiful yet deadly nautical worlds. For players who want things to get even more dangerous, they can activate the Deadly Octopus “cheat” code that makes the large mollusk deadly to poor old Ecco. As if the ocean wasn’t scary enough.
2 Tomb Raider 2’s Exploding Lara Croft Punishes Cheats
Lara Croft is one of the most beloved and important figures in all games, an inspiration to young girls and still the object of desire of many young men who still have a somewhat obsessive fascination with the female Indiana Jones knock-off and a of the first faces of the original PlayStation. Watching Lara go down or eating one too many bullets is like losing a beloved family member for some.
Why anyone would want to use a cheat in which Lara explodes into a series of disembodied, blocky fragments for almost no apparent reason and for no useful purpose is beyond basic human understanding. Perhaps someone on the development team disapproved of Lara’s desecration of important historical artifacts, though many fans theorize that the explosive glitch was in fact a way of discouraging cheaters from even accessing the codes.
1 The Sims 4 lets players experience a volcanic eruption
No one in their right mind would want a living volcano to spew molten ash and lava on their real hometown. However, for those thrill seekers who want to experience natural disasters in a more controlled environment, there is always The Sims 4‘s volcanic cheat code to give an idea of what it would be like to experience the last days of Pompeii from the comfort of their own home.
Just type “volcanic_eruption” [small/large]in the game’s input box and chunks of molten lava will begin to rain down from the sky. In what is a pretty natural response to the Earth spewing fire on its inhabitants, people don’t like to be ravaged with red hot rocks, which means that most sims react negatively to events of such catastrophic magnitude.
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