We’ve gathered together over one thousand of the juiciest facts, figures and shocks from the world of playstation to educate your brain and tickle your funny bone. Topic 201-300.
201. The characters in Tekken Tag Tournament have fully modelled teeth, something director Katsuhiro Harada later considered was, “a total waste of polygons.”
202. The total time logged in Mass Effect 3’s single player campaign adds up to 88.3 million years.
203. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II’s Battle for Endor DLC let you kill Han Solo, Chewbacca and Princess Leia.
204. There’s an email in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag between Abstergo and Watch Dog’s Blume Corporation suggesting the two games exist in the same world.
205. Dissidia Final Fantasy was originally going to be a Kingdom Hearts game, but Disney didn’t like the idea of its characters fighting.
206. There’s a hidden Minecraft cave in Borderlands 2 filled with Creepers.
207. Four months after it had been released there had been 1.1 trillion shots fired in Call Of Duty: Black Ops’ multiplayer.
208. In 24 hours, more people were killed in COD: Black Ops than the total population of the US.
209. There were 28,337,269 headshots.
210. Enough explosive crossbow bolts were fired to run the length of the Great Wall Of China.
211. One of the first people to play a WIP (Work In Progress) build of Deus Ex was Valve’s Gabe Newell. He criticised its dull missions and poor upgrades, forcing the team to rethink much of the game.
212. Early versions of the first PlayStation controller featured square buttons and a single large button with three smaller ones underneath.
213. In Spyro 2, there’s an orange enemy wielding a wrench and a small robot, who seem to be an early version of Ratchet & Clank, also by developer Insomniac.
214. The ability to cancel and combo moves in Street Fighter II was originally a bug.
215. In GTA : San Andreas, CJ can’t start the jetpack missions if he’s too fat.
216. In inFamous: Second Son, Delsin’s ringtone is the Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time’s theme.
217. In Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, you can use the in-game phone to call Konami’s helpline where you will be told you are, “beyond even our help.”
218. LittleBigPlanet was delayed after it was discovered a song on the soundtrack contained lyrics that quoted from The Qur’an. The translated line said,”Every soul shall have the taste of death. All that is on Earth will perish,” and was removed shortly after.
219. In Spider-Man on PS2, a cheat code lets you play as Mary Jane, leading to a self-smooch situation when ‘Spider-Man’ and Mary Jane meet at the end.
220. In Fallout 3, the Fat Man RPG nuke was renamed in Japan as it took the title from the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The bell that rings when it reloads is actually the Bethesda Studios lunch bell.
221. There’s a door in Fallout 3 that doesn’t go anywhere. It just opens on to wall with ‘F*ck You’ painted on it.
222. Within a month of launch, PS4 accounted for 10% of all Twitch streams. A month later it was 20%.
223. There’s a hidden weapon in Red Faction: Armageddon called Mr Toots, a unicorn that farts rainbows.
224. There’s a hidden kill in Hitman: Absolution where shooting all the vultures in a level causes an ice cream truck to run your target over. Director Tore Blystad claims he was told about it but never found it before the game’s release in 2012.
225. PS4’s launch caused a staggering 90% growth in PS Plus subscriptions.
226. Chell’s screams in Portal are simply reused from female Half-Life 2 NPCs.
227. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 99 contains the pilot episode of South Park as a hidden and inaccessible video file.
228. The venom of the Brazilian wandering spider used by The Fear to poison Snake has an effect not mentioned in the game: uncontrollable erections.
229. In Ratchet & Clank, you can inflate the breasts of the hoverboard race host by performing flips.
230. Two developers started working on different Saints Row dubstep guns in secret before they found out about each other and merged their efforts.
231. Left-handed people have slightly better left/right brain communication, meaning they have an advantage when playing videogames.
232. Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune designed some of the first Street Fighter’s characters. The gig was actually his break into games development.
233. Final Fantasy’s iconic prelude theme, which appears in every game, was, “thrown together,” in five minutes according to series composer Nobuo Uematsu.
234. You can actually see Jack’s crashed plane from the first Bioshock in Bioshock 2.
235. In Red Faction: Guerrilla, the Geo-Mod destruction engine meant all the buildings had to be built according to real life architecture and physics or they collapsed.
236. Muammar al-Gaddafi’s son was a huge fan of The Prince Of Persia and had paintings of the character in his father’s palace.
Four of the top ten most expensive games to develop are Rockstar titles:
237. #1 – GTA V $270 million.
238. #4 – Max Payne 3 $105m.
239. #6 – GTA IV $100+ million.
240. #7 – Red Dead Redemption $100 million.
241. Tetris was the first game played in space.
242. Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro was heavily reworked after 9/11 due to its New York setting. Dialogue, levels and overall structure were changed after the attack.
243. The first Resident Evil was originally conceived as a first-person shooter.
244. Resident Evil Code: Veronica was meant to be the third game in the series on the then ‘next-gen’ Sega Saturn while Nemesis was due to be a current-gen PS1 spin off. Capcom made a deal with Sony however that meant Nemesis became Resi 3.
245. Trying to leave the mansion in Resident Evil 5’s Lost In Nightmares DLC three times lets you play the add-on with the original game’s fixed cameras.
246. In Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Vader’s apprentice Starkiller took his title from Luke Skywalker’s name in the original drafts of Star Wars.
247. Skylanders has sold over 175 million toys.
248. End to end, all those toys would stretch between LA and Melbourne.
249. Skylanders has generated $2 billion in revenue.
250. In Deus Ex Human Revolution, the aircraft used to transport Jensen originally had the number ‘800 B-EE’ on the side. It was changed to ‘B-EE 008 when it was realised it looked like the word ‘Boobee’.
251. Seymour, Fry’s fossilised dog in Futurama, makes an appearance in Fallout: New Vegas’ DLC, Lonesome Road.
252. MGS4 currently holds the world record for the longest single cutscene: 71 minutes.
253. Everyone you kill in Assassin’s Creed is a real person and their time and place of death matches historical records.
254. Enough flight time has been logged in Battlefield 4 to earn 90,000 pilot licences.
255. Christopher Randolph, the voice of Octacon, originally went for Snake’s part but got the other role because he looked like the character’s concept art.
256. The first letters of each chapter name in Dead Space spell out ‘N.I.C.O.L.E.I.S.D.E.A.D.’, referencing the twist that Isaac’s girlfriend died before the game started.
257. In Far Cry 3, there are several references to Abstergo that the hero Jason recognises, suggesting the game takes place in the same world as Assassin’s Creed.
258. 2001’s Ghost Recon was built around a fictional global crisis where Russian attacked, among other countries, Georgia and Ukraine.
259. Call Of Duty: Black Ops II has a Simpsons reference – a scattering of pink glazed donuts that can be found in a nuclear power plant.
260. Mr Burns’ lost teddy Bobo turns up in Far Cry 3.
261. In the original Alone In The Dark series the hero Edward Carnby’s inconsistent age between instalments was explained by saying it was a codename assigned to different people.
262. In Half-Life 2, the head crab zombies are saying, “Help! God, help! Help me!” in reverse.
263. Dark Souls had two previous names that were changed because of potentially negative connotations: Dark Ring and Dark Race.
264. If you let Ashley Williams die in Mass Effect 1, her ghost appears briefly in Mass Effect 3.
265. There’s a 300 reference in TES V: Skyrim where you can find a sabre cat in a narrow passage stabbed in the head with a spear.
266. Alundra 2 came in a double-sized CD case because the manual was so big. There was only one game disc.
267. In Red Faction: Guerrilla, there’s a one-off game over screen if Alec Mason kills his brother Dan. It says “WTF? You killed your brother!!!”
268. Borderlands 2’s BNK-3R boss’ voice is actually a heavily processed recording of sound designer Joshua Davidson shouting about tea.
269. Hitman’s Agent 47 was redesigned to look more like voice actor David Bateson after he got the role. IO saw him in an adjacent sound booth on another job during auditions and asked him to try for the part.
270. In Dead Rising 2, the costume ‘Tattered Clothing’ is Simon Pegg’s clothing from Shaun Of The Dead.
271. Agent 47’s barcode as it appears in the Absolution reveal trailer can be scanned and takes you to the Amazon product listing for a ‘Drawstring Double Dong Dildo Bag in Starry Night Blue’.
272. In an early version of Dead Island, the Gender War skill, which gave the female character Purna extra damage against male enemies, was actually called ‘Feminist Whore’. When it was found in the code Techland apologised and promised to punish the developer responsible.
273. Resident Evil 2 only ever had seven zombies on-screen at any one time.
274. During Batman: Arkham Asylum’s development, one person spent two years just working on the cape.
275. In six months the total distance driven by players in Just Cause 2 was equal to three times the distance between Earth and Mars.
276. The total play time equaled 3,000 years.
277. 403,783 scorpions were killed.
278. 1.5 billion soldiers died.
279. Two characters named Biggs and Wedge appear in several Final Fantasy games, as well as Chrono Trigger and Kingdom Hearts, because developer Yoshinori Kitase was a film buff and a fan of Star Wars.
280. Commander Shepard is named after Alan Shepard, the first American in space.
281. Core Design originally wanted a cheat code in Tomb Raider that would make heroine Lara naked. Creator Toby Gard refused.
282. Kathryn Beaumont, the original voice of Disney’s 1951 Alice In Wonderland when she was 13, reprised her role in 2002’s Kingdom Hearts at 63.
283. Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix’s visuals had to be rebuilt from scratch as the original art assets were lost.
284. Electronic Arts was originally going to be called Amazin’ Software but founder Trip Hawkins wanted something more serious and... well, artistic.
285. If you played Metal Gear Solid on a mono TV Snake is mocked for not having a stereo television during calls on the Codec.
286. On the planet Ontarom in Mass Effect 3, there’s a space cow that will steal your credits if you turn your back on it.
287. The different combinations in Brink mean it’s possible to create 100 quadrillion unique characters.
288. In Twisted Metal: Black, hidden messages from one of the characters imply the entire game is happening inside Needles Kane’s head.
289. Not only can you kill a MGS3 boss called The End by waiting a week for him to die of old age (or changing the clock), but he appears in an earlier level and can be sniped so the battle never happens.
290. A total of $9 trillion in loot was stolen in the Battlefield Hardline Beta.
291. Portal 2 originally featured no portals or GlaDOS.
292. The baby in Fallout 3 was voiced by director Todd Howard’s son.
293. At one point in development, God Of War’s cyclops had visible genitals because David Jaffe wanted them to appear more like wild animals.
294. Angry Birds’ enemies are pigs because the Swine Flu epidemic was happening during development. It’s also why they’re green: they’re meant to be sick.
295. Call Of Duty: Black Ops was the first Call Of Duty game Treyarch developed with 100% of the studio working on it with no other side projects.
296. Pac-Man was originally called Puck-Man until developers realised how easily that could be made into a bad word on the side of arcade cabinets.
297. Nine women have portrayed Lara Croft as a promotional model: Nathalie Cook (1996 to 1997), Rhona Mitra (1997 to 1998), Vanessa Demouy (1998), Nell McAndrew (1998 to 1999), Lara Weller (1999 to 2000), Lucy Clarkson (2000 to 2002), Jill de Jong (2002 to 2004), Karima Adebibe (2006 to 2008) and Alison Carroll (2008).
298. Shadow Of The Colossus was originally going to have 48 giants and concept art for many of those that were never featured has since been released.
299. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater was called Tony Hawk’s Skateboarding in countries where ‘skating’ was more associated with ice skating.
300. The original inFamous takes place over 21 days.