8 Most Spiteful Video Game Easter Eggs Ever

6. Call Of Duty Is Full Of "Special Ops Douchebags" (Battlefield: Bad Company 2)

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EA's Battlefield franchise has played second-fiddle to Call Of Duty for well over a decade at this point. That's not to say Battlefield doesn't perform well critically and commercially - of course it does - it's just that CoD is way more popular.

Following the release of Modern Warfare in 2007 and Modern Warfare 2 in 2009, Activision's series secured its place as gaming's premiere FPS franchise, a fact that the creators of Battlefield were seemingly quite bitter about.

In 2010's Bad Company 2, a cutscene part way through the game sees the rag-tag group of soldiers discussing their current mission, only for Private Sweetwater to pipe up with the exquisite line "special ops douchebags with p*ssy-ass heartbeat monitors on their guns". Eat your heart out Shakespeare.

Then, during the campaign mission No One Gets Left Behind, the squad hops on some quad bikes, and decides to race each other to a nearby chopper base. During the race, Sweetwater boasts "if this was a snowmobile race, I'd take you down!" only for Haggard to respond "it's not a snowmobile... snowmobiles are for sissies!"

Many players will have undoubtedly clocked that both chunks of dialogue are direct insults aimed at CoD, Battlefield's main rival. Modern Warfare 2 is all about an elite spec-ops team that does indeed use heartbeat monitors on its guns - and in one famous mission, this team hops on some snowmobiles for a high-speed mountain chase. What a load of sissies.

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