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Glide over to one of the tall floating docks out on the water and you'll spot a big pile of hay sitting on top. Take a closer look and you'll find Scarecrow's original burlap mask just lying there in it, with no explanation given whatsoever. Nobody quotes or references it, it's just there for anyone curious enough to check.
Long before he was barking orders in the SAS, Billy Murray, the voice behind Captain Price in the original trilogy, spent years playing Don Beech on The Bill and later Johnny Allen on EastEnders. He stuck with the role of Price all the way through the first three games.
Umbacano's second quest, Nothing You Can Possess, borrows its title straight from Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Belloq tells Indy 'there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away.' It's not just the name either - the whole setup of someone snatching away the relic you just risked your neck for is lifted from that exact scene.
Watch Brucie work out during one of his cutscenes and you can spot Chinese character tattoos covering his torso. On his chest is the character for 'I,' but the ones on his back translate to 'transsexual.' Given how much time Brucie spends bragging about his own masculinity, it's hard to believe this one was an accident.
That bus smashing backwards into the bank during the opening heist looked simple on screen but was a nightmare to actually pull off. The crew had to strip the bus down, reassemble it inside a disused post office behind a hidden false wall, then fire it backwards with an air cannon.
Rockstar has officially named six distinct areas that make up the state of Leonida: Vice City itself, the Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia, and Mount Kalaga National Park. An exact map size has never been published, so anything you see quoting square miles online is still just fan estimation.
Walk into the butcher's house in Fyresdal for the first time and he'll bellow 'Fresh Meat' the moment he spots you, the exact same line The Butcher shouts the first time you run into him in every Diablo game.
Down in the grim, waterlogged Underside area, there's a creepy little detail easy to miss entirely: a doll's head sitting under a loose floorboard. No explanation given, just one more unsettling prop dropped into an already unsettling place.
A handful of GTA IV's mission titles are lifted straight from literature if you know what to look for. 'The Master and the Molotov' is a play on Mikhail Bulgakov's 'The Master and Margarita', and 'Crime and Punishment' borrows its name directly from the Dostoevsky classic. Little nods for anyone paying more attention to the mission list than the actual shooting.
