8 Secret Campaigns Hidden In Video Games

It's a mad world that we live in when Shadow The Hedgehog is a video game even more utterly off-the-rails than even the absolute disaster-piece that is Sonic '06, but here we are.

Where to even begin with this monster? How about the fact that the game begins with an alien invasion or the fact that Shadow is now a gun-toting edge-lord? Or how he might be an android clone, or that he's got amnesia and can choose to work with the Big Evil to doom the world?

There's so much insanity going on in this game's opening sections than most titles fit into forty hours! And that's to say nothing of the stunning realization that this game has ten different endings, and you're going to need to see them all in order to unlock the final campaign mission.

Here, after what must be countless hours of gameplay and enough crisscrossing of timelines to confuse even a theoretical physicist, you see Black Doom use Chaos control to bring a Black Comet to Earth. You then need to stop the villain from using every human on the planet to power the alien race. and further their conquest of the galaxy.

What follows is arguably the best section of the game, in which you have to battle against a huge alien force, riding a flying worm for a while, turning the game into an on-rails shooter.

It's utter insanity, but The Final Story truly is the game running on pure banter mode.