10 GENIUS Ways Video Games Fought Cheaters

10. Making Modded Cars Explode Upon Entry - Grand Theft Auto Online

Trust Rockstar Games to come up with a totally hilarious way to flip the bird at cheating players.

The Duke O'Death is an armoured muscle car in Grand Theft Auto V which was originally only available to those who upgraded from the PS3/Xbox 360 versions of the game to the PS4/Xbox One ones.

And more to the point, it could only be officially used in the single-player portion of the game - not Grand Theft Auto Online.

However, in 2015 players found a way to hack the Duke O'Death into GTA Online, but rather than merely ban offending players, Rockstar came up with an altogether more emphatic way to give them a telling off.

Basically, Rockstar patched GTA Online to ensure that the Duke O'Death would instantly explode the moment that any player set foot in it, killing them instantly.

On one hand it was an iron-clad way to stop players from circumventing a restriction, and on the other it sent a rather firm-yet-playful message to offending players that cheating wouldn't be tolerated.