8 Insane Random Events In Video Games You Need To See

8. Exploding Cows - Fallout 2

When it comes to franchises packed to the rafters with special and rare encounters, the Fallout series is like a vast cellar, filled with vintage wine. Everywhere you look is another brilliant and well-scripted moment, and thus picking from this selection actually proved to be a very difficult task.

Then I remembered the exploding cows from Fallout 2, and this entry basically wrote itself.

The early Fallout games operate on a tile-based world, with the player moving from grid to grid as they make their way through The Wasteland, point to point. As each tile is loaded in, the game can randomly switch out sections with brand new scenarios making for some tense and downright bizarre experiences. One such encounter, as I've mentioned, focuses on a group of exploding Brahmin, who will walk towards the player very slowly before erupting into a concussive blast of gore.

While it might be a little annoying to be killed so quickly, you're likely going to be greeting Peter at the pearly gates with a smile on your face for how ridiculous this moment was.

It turns out that this encounter is a reference to a previous special encounter in Fallout 1, where the player could find a group of cows that spoke with human voices!