10 Insane Video Game Secrets You Had To Cheat To Unlock

2016 FPS Homefront: The Revolution will likely either be remembered as a pretty middling affair in its own right or, rather strangely, as the most up-to-date way to play a much older, all-time classic.

When you reach the Restricted Zone, the game will take you to the ramshackle safe house The Bourse. On the second floor is a dusty old arcade machine that, when examined, will pause the revolution and let the player get some nostalgic kicks playing through two stages of 2002 FPS legend TimeSplitters 2.

It took five years before the truth behind this Easter Egg came out though when developer Matt Phillips admitted in 2021 that there was more to this TimeSplitters port. A lot more. Like, “the rest of the game” kind of more. However, it was all locked behind a cheat code that he had unfortunately completely forgotten, due to how complex it was.

Originally, he had given the cheat to a friend to leak onto a Discord server but in a hilarious twist of fate said friend had been banned for dealing out phoney info. However, in the wake of the news, that friend (who turned out to be Xbox software engineer Stephen Perreault) re-emerged with the code after all this time.

Considering the lack of official rereleases for TimeSplitters 2, this may well be one of the best unlockable surprises for long-time fans of the genre.