10 Hidden Areas In Video Games You Weren't Supposed To Find

3. Citadel - GoldenEye 007

Even though the entries in this list were never meant to be witnessed by anyone but the programmers, you'd think it wouldn't take that long for someone to discover them. By studying the code or using a cheat device, it shouldn't be that hard for gaming experts to locate every hidden file.

But that wasn't the case for GoldenEye 007. Though veterans meticulously pooled over the N64 shooter to find every secret imaginable, the top-secret Citadel went undiscovered for six years.

Although the Citadel was speculated years prior, many images of this complex were proven to be fake. As such, it was believed the Citadel was a hoax, (much like the All Bonds Mode cheat that many GoldenEye 007 owners fell for). 

But by using a GameShark code, the Citadel was revealed to be legit in 2004. 

According one of the developers, "Citadel was a very rough test level designed during the early stages of multiplayer mode. It's not in the finished game in any shape or form." (That last part proved to be untrue.)

There isn't much to explore, but it's reassuring for GoldenEye purists to learn this long-rumoured level was real all along.