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Halo has been a bread and butter shooter game to many a gamer.
Strong competitive play combined with a great casual game made for quite a gem of a series.
And the folks over at Microsoft have made a habit of rewarding the most patient fans
with some pretty great Easter Eggs.
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But before you do that, get ready, it’s time for the Top 10 Halo Easter Eggs!
Number 10: Red vs. Blue Radios.
This was a brilliant bit of fan service in Halo 4’s Spartan Ops mode.
You can find these radios throughout the game, and if you shoot them you’ll hear the Red
vs. Blue theme song.
After you trigger this, parts of the dialogue in the chapter will be changed to include
lines by the cast of the show.
Link in script.
Number 9: Buck and Monkeyman.
This one from ODST is definitely the strangest one on the list.
In the epilogue when you see Major Johnson interrogating the alien, if you look to the
left at the right time you'll see Edward Buck eating a mite off some freaky monkey-looking
thing.
That seems to have the face of Mark Lehto (lay-doe), Bungie's creative art director.
And I can't tell if it's cute or deeply unsettling.
Number 8: Soccer time!
As a big ol’ soccer fan, I had to include this badboy from Halo 5.
In Meridian Station, if you walk past Sloan’s hologram to the left, you’ll find an orange
vending machine in front of a building.
Activate it a bunch of times until you hear a sports whistle, and a soccer ball will spawn.
And then…
it’s ON.
Score on the two traffic cone goals, and watch the fireworks.
Number 7: The Reversed Message from Halo 2.
There are a few reversed messages in the Halo series, and the one in the second game is
great.
If you reverse Destroyer's Invocation, it goes "...I have walked among men and angels
for three thousand years.
Time has no end...
no beginning...
no purpose.
I wander the earth, seeking forgiveness for my horrible crimes against God and man.
I live to see death and destruction, evil... over the light, but the light cannot be extinguished.
I live in a prison of my own device.
I am lost...in time.
It's uncertain who's saying this, some thing it's a Prophet or the Gravemind, but the consensus
is that it's Mendicant Bias.
Number 6: The thirsty grunt.
Oh man, this isn’t the juiciest easter egg in the world but it’s one of the funniest
lines I’ve ever heard in my life.
In the Maw level of Halo: Combat evolved, you can find a small passage to the right
of a tunnel.
Follow the correct path and you’ll come across a grunt that says, wait for it: “Good
thing that Food Nipple’s waiting for me at the starship ‘cause man, whew, have I
worked up a big, grunty thirst!”
Simply marvelous.
Number 5: Singing Grunt.
Gotta include another awesome Grunt easter egg because they’re hilarious.
In the Reunion level of Halo 5, you can see a single Grunt just singing along to his happy
little song.
Honestly, this is by far the most adorable I’ve seen a Grunt be, and it would have
been really hard to kill it.
But it has a skull.
So it has to die.
I wish I could include all the Grunt interactions in that game, there are so many great ones.
Number 4: Flipping an elephant.
Here’s one from Halo 3 that a lot of people probably know about, I know my friends and
I spent ages trying to do this back in the day.
As you may know, the Elephant is an enormous vehicle that should never, realistically,
flip over.
But if you manage to do this, generally in Forge Mode, and walk back up to it, you’ll
get the message “Press button to flip,, wait, what?
How did you do that?”
I achieved this once.
After 2 hours.
It was so worth it.
Number 3: Naked man!
Half-Naked guy, aka Lonely Soul, can actually be found in both Halo 2 and Halo 3.
In 2, if you do the Gravemind level on Legendary, you’ll see a cutscene with a bunch of grunts
battling.
Hidden there is the image of Jason Jones, the co-founder of Bungie, wearing only gym
shorts.
Or a towel.
The wiki says gym shorts but it looks like a towel.
It’s not important.
Then in the last level of Halo 3, you can find a secret area where a cardboard cut-out
of him is there, still in his shorts.
Or towel.
Still can’t tell.
You ready for a sick reference?
That’s the wrong magnum dude!
Get it?
Because it’s a modeling pose in Zoolander but also a gun in the game?
Number 2: Peeing Brute.
Here’s a legendary easter egg from Halo 3.
On the Ark level, you’ll pass by a bunch of sleeping baddies and come upon a grunt
doing what I always assumed they had to do but never expected to see: peeing.
He really gets into it, even putting his hands behind his head, finishing up with a little
zipping motion.
The best part is that it isn’t always the same rank, and if he’s a higher rank he
notices you sooner.
It’s perfection.
Number 1: The Hugging Elite.
This one’s a non-canon cutscene found in Combat Evolved and Anniversary after beating
the Maw on Legendary difficulty.
Sergeant Johnson and a Stealth Elite are fighting over a rifle, only to see the Pillar of Autumn
blowing up.
Johnson asks the Elite to hold him, then gets a bit frisky.
It’s even funnier in Anniversary; Johnson hugs a Zealot instead, but you can see the
Zealot lift its head when it notices the bum grab.
Move over Ross and Rachel, THIS is a love story.
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