10 Secret Video Game Areas You Weren't Meant To Find
1. Glitching Past The Boundaries In The Original Saints Row Demo
Remember when it was the norm for games to have publicly-available demos? Those demo discs you could get in magazines are a relic of the past now, and even digital demos have become a welcome rarity.
Back in the day, the original Saints Row received a demo of its own, allowing players to explore a cordoned-off section of the map, as well as take part in a select handful of missions. It was a decent enough taster, but players who wanted to explore even further could actually break past the demo's boundaries and run around a much larger portion of the game's map.
Amusingly (and in wacky Saints Row fashion), players could glitch past those borders by standing in front of an NPC's car and kicking it, forcing it to accelerate forwards and ram your character into the off-limits part of the map. It's also possible to jump through the boundary while in the middle of the "exiting a car" animation.
While outside the boundaries - and bearing in mind that this area wasn't finished off by the developers - players can walk through walls, fall through the map, watch NPCs fall through the map, and even jump on top of a train as it takes you round the whole map. Not too shabby for a free demo.
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