5 Totally Insane Video Game Bonus Levels

2. Modern Warfare 2: The Museum

At the end of the MW2's grand finale, you would be right to say that you may feel unnerved by the ending, in which the protagonist John "Soap" MacTavish suffers a gruesome injury - even if he goes on to survive it in the next game.

Shortly after you dispatch the traitorous General Shephard, you are taken through an interesting ending sequence that depicts several set pieces from different levels in a giant museum - you have scenes from a Brazilian Favela shanty-town, the rocky outpost in which the game's ending battle was fought, and the snowy mountains from which the game began. While a nice touch, this seemed perfectly innocent until the credits ended, and you were IN the museum.

You could go around and view different character models in each exhibit, and admire the detail in the rooms, looking over different scenes from different levels and it seemed like a normal Easter Egg, until you arrived in a lobby that contained EVERY weapon in the game. Why do you need weapons in an Easter Egg you ask? In an adjacent room to the armory, was this innocuous little button.

Once you pressed the red button on the desk, the 40 or so HEAVILY armed soldiers and a pack of attack dogs came barreling from their exhibits, guns blazing - at you. Examine that for a moment. You, with whatever guns you picked up (if you didn't get a LMG, you were dead, just a tip), against a force of forty, armed with... everything.

So, you at this point take your (hopefully sufficient) weapons, and fend off the waves of belligerent attackers for... nothing really. As soon as you've mowed down Price, Soap, and the last of the Juggernauts, the level resets. Not much of a reward, but a creative one, at least.