10 Things Video Games REALLY Didn't Want You To See
2. The Secret Debug Menu - Marvel's Spider-Man 2
As basically seems like a miracle for AAA games these days, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 had a largely smooth launch, yet Insomniac Games ended up dropping an unexpected clanger in early March, more than four months after the game hit stores.
Players soon discovered that the game's 1.002 patch, released on March 7th, accidentally added a debug menu to Spider-Man 2 only intended to be used by the developers.
This menu allowed players to skip to any chapter they want, activate cheats, view performance data, access scrapped levels, play as Venom anywhere in the game's open world, and even find hints at future DLC drops.
It provided players with a fascinating and all-too-rare glimpse behind the curtain of a AAA behemoth, though Insomniac understandably weren't too keen on players getting this unauthorised all-access peek, and so quickly patched Spider-Man 2 to block access to the menu.
Unsurprisingly though, some players attempted to find workarounds to maintain access to the debug menu, such as cutting their PS5 off from the Internet before the new update was delivered.