The Gone in 60 Seconds Garage
During the campaign, players can enter a garage containing a list of cars that's only visible under ultraviolet light, a clear homage to the target vehicle list from the heist film Gone in 60 Seconds.
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Polly's Voice Is Basically Ozzy Osbourne
Helen McCrory needed a rock-solid Birmingham accent to carry Aunt Polly, so she went straight to the source and studied hours of interview footage of Ozzy Osbourne to get the cadence right. Considering how iconic her performance became, it clearly worked.
Hopper's Cabin Is a Real Escape Room You Can Visit
The rustic cabin where Hopper gets attacked in Season 3 cost the production a grand total of one dollar to use, because it belongs to an Atlanta escape room company called Escape Woods. They later turned the actual cabin into one of their own attractions, letting fans try to outsmart their own version of the Mind Flayer on site.
Chernov's Secret Diary
Pvt. Chernov, one of the Soviet squadmates, secretly keeps a diary throughout the campaign. Reznov actually catches him writing in it at one point, snatches it away, and tells him to 'fight like a man' instead - a small character beat that a lot of players miss entirely.
Shum gro-Yarug Really Likes That Wine
Ask around Castle Skingrad about the Surilie vineyards and Shum gro-Yarug will tell you he 'helped him drink his wine, and he always has some mighty fine wine.' That's almost word for word from Three Dog Night's 'Joy to the World,' the one about Jeremiah the bullfrog. Slightly odd choice for an Orc, but it works.
The Showrunner Came From The West Wing And Daredevil
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich wasn't a fantasy specialist before taking this on. Her résumé includes writing and producing credits on The West Wing, Parenthood, and Marvel's Daredevil and The Defenders, a pretty different toolkit that she brought over to building the Continent.
Built Across Six Studios at Once
Just how big a production was Revelations? Big enough that Ubisoft had six different studios working on it simultaneously, a scale that dwarfed anything the series had attempted before it.
Anvil's Little Mermaid
Down by the docks in Anvil there's a statue in the water that's clearly scaled up from The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen harbour, easily the most photographed statue in Denmark. It's a small, quiet homage that most players sail straight past without noticing.
Why Skyrim?
Skyrim was chosen as the next game in The Elder Scrolls series after Oblivion, was because the most was known about the province of Skyrim.It gave Bethesda more to start with as they developed the game. Along with the fact that Skyrim was considered cool
Genji Quotes The Princess Bride
Genji has a voice line, 'You seem nice, I hate to kill you,' that's a pretty direct lift from Inigo Montoya's duel with the Dread Pirate Roberts in The Princess Bride. It fits Genji's whole honorable-swordsman thing a bit too perfectly to be a coincidence.