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One of the pieces of content restored by the fan-made Restoration Project is a submarine belonging to a Shi faction leader in San Francisco, content that was built for the original game but never actually finished or shipped. It took over a decade after release for players to finally get to explore it.
MW2 is where the Tactical Nuke killstreak was born. String together 25 kills without dying and you could call one in, ending the match on the spot with your team taking the win while a mushroom cloud filled the screen. It became the single most bragged-about achievement in the whole series.
To stop the script leaking, the production circulated it under the fake title 'The Intimidation Game' — and this wasn't just a media decoy, cast members got sent scripts under that title too. Michael Caine apparently assumed he'd been sent a gangster movie. Before settling on Batman Begins, the project had also briefly gone by 'Batman 5' and 'Batman: The Frightening.'
Shi No Numa is where Tank Dempsey, Nikolai Belinski, Takeo Masaki and Edward Richtofen first show up together as the playable four-man crew - a lineup that would go on to anchor the Zombies storyline for years across Black Ops and beyond.
Long before sprinting became a genre-wide staple thanks to games like Call of Duty 4, and years before Bungie officially added it as an armour ability in Halo: Reach, the mechanic was actually prototyped for Halo 2. It got cut, but leftover animation files for it were still sitting in the game's code the whole time.
The Red Rocket truck stop that shows up in the episode 'The Radio' is a genuine easter egg for players, since it's the exact type of gas station where you first meet Dogmeat in Fallout 4. To pull it off, the crew transformed a real petrol station in Nyack, New York into the iconic red-and-white design in just three days.
That gut-punch of a scene where Sergeant Paul Jackson crawls out of a downed helicopter into a mushroom cloud wasn't just there for shock value. Critics have pointed out it deliberately strips away every bit of control the campaign spent hours building up, right before killing the character off outright, which is almost unheard of for a genre built on power fantasies.
This one picked up a spot in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, putting it alongside decades of games considered essential playing.
In its opening weekend the show hit number one on Netflix's chart in 84 countries at once, edging out the previous record of 83 that had been shared by Wednesday and Stranger Things Season 4.
