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Blizzard spent years insisting 'there is no cow level,' a running joke going back to the original Diablo. For Diablo's 20th anniversary they finally caved, at least in WoW: killing a Treasure Goblin in the Broken Isles could pull you into a farmer's field crawling with axe-wielding cows and a boss called the Cow King, who'd hand out a toy guitar that plays Tristram's theme song.
When Halo 3 launched on September 25, 2007, it didn't just break gaming records, it outsold the opening weekends of major Hollywood films. Reports at the time put day-one earnings north of $170 million, with roughly 3.3 million copies sold in the first week alone, edging past openings like Spider-Man 3 and the release of the final Harry Potter novel.
This was actually a first for the studio in a different way too, it's the first time Naughty Dog ever pushed one of its own franchises to a fifth mainline entry, since their earlier series either stopped after one game or got handed off to other developers.
One of the largest single cash stashes in the game, $25,000, sits on top of a wrecked submarine deep underwater, next to the vessel's entrance hatch, rewarding players willing to dive for it.
A lot of people picture Jack Sparrow himself duelling atop the giant rolling wheel, but in the actual film it's Will and Norrington fighting up there while Jack just gets tossed around inside it. The image everyone remembers of Jack on top of the wheel is actually from the parody film Epic Movie, not this one at all.
The field chosen for the Battle of the Pelennor Fields turned out to be riddled with rabbit warrens. Before any horses could gallop across it, the whole terrain had to be swept and every hole filled in for safety.
Camel figurines scattered across Uldum usually just crumble to dust when examined, but rarely one will teleport you to a hidden area called the Steam Pools. There you'll face a huge ettin, Dormus, who drops the Reins of the Grey Riding Camel mount and a matching title if defeated.
Tucked around the open-world Western Ghats section are eleven Hoysala Tokens, and hunting down every last one rewards players who fully explore the map rather than just racing to the next story beat.
There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment where Ice King's computer screen shows off his actual browser history, and it's full of pathetic, oddly specific searches about handling princesses and strange health questions. It's a tiny detail but it adds a whole extra layer of sadness to how lonely the guy really is underneath the jokes.
