10 Video Game Mistakes (That Were Totally Intentional)
These gaming "blunders" were actually totally on purpose.
The perfect video game simply doesn't exist - so much mind-boggling work goes into even a simple, low-budget game that it's only inevitable that accidents and mistakes are going to happen.
And the bigger a game is, with a larger budget and more populous development team, the likelier it becomes for glaring issues to slip through the cracks and be discovered by players after release.
Yet not all mistakes are created equal, and some of them aren't even mistakes at all, in fact.
It's certainly reasonable to take an apparent bug, glitch, or exploit at face value, yet in the case of these 10 video games, each mistake was actually intentionally included in the game by the developers.
Perhaps they wanted to poke fun at a prior glitch in the series, dupe players into thinking they'd discovered a bug, or just flat-out screw with people - whatever the reason, these deliberate gameplay flourishes were all dressed up as mistakes the devs failed to catch.
While using intent to cover up one's mistakes is as transparent a trick as they come, in the case of these 10 games, they seemed to be telling the truth...
10. "Allan, Please Add More Detail!" - Many Hitman Games
In the Hitman: Absolution level "Birdie's Gift," you need to take part in a target shooting mini-game in order to get your precious Silverballer pistols back, and in the event your score ends up being 666, you'll be greeted with the message, "Allan, please add more detail!"
Oops, did IO Interactive accidentally leave a note in the game intended for one of the developers to flesh out some of the flavour-text? Not quite.
This is actually a reference to a mistake from the previous Hitman game, Blood Money, where in the mission "A Dance with the Devil," players who pick up a crate of lobster and read the flavour-text will see "Allan please add details," as one of the dev team seemingly forgot to remove this note to one of the series' 3D artists, Allan Hansen.
Absolution is far from the only game in the series to intentionally reference this gaffe, though - in 2016's Hitman reboot, a post-it note asking Allan to add more details can be found next to a computer, and the HD remaster of Blood Money even hilariously changed the original message to, "Any details yet, Allan?" Brilliant.