10 Unintentionally Creepy Video Game Characters

7. The Statue of Happiness - GTA IV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8wi_SQJOAY Easily one of the strangest and most inventive easter eggs in the history of video games also makes for one of the unexpectedly creepiest moments. Why yes, it's Rockstar up to their usual tricks again with GTA IV, whereby if you get inside the Statue of Happiness - obviously a rip-off of the Statue of Liberty - you can see that it has a gigantic, beating heart. What's more, the heart is wrapped in chains, a relatively eerie suggestion that has made countless gamers - this one included - vastly over-think what Rockstar were trying to say when they put this in their game, when really, they were probably saying nothing at all and just wanted to freak us out. Rockstar have never spoken a word about it, presumably just to make the whole deal even weirder, and boy, did it work. The fact it's just standing there, clearly something living inside, adds a strange, mystical element to a game that is otherwise the most realistic and "gritty" in the series. So we're glad they didn't totally abandon their roots, then...
 
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