8 Terrifying Monsters Hiding In Open World Video Games

3. A Chort - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Witcher 3's release across 2015 was legendary. Singlehandedly giving us hope for the generation after a 2014 dogged by buggy half-baked toss like Watch Dogs, it was CDPR to the rescue, designing a fantasy world millions of us are still enamoured with, and crafting a world of characters and consequence you could get completely lost in.

Enter, then, the Chorts - creatures that pose the strongest threat in the entire game, that spawn if you kill too many cows at once.

Why? Because CDPR recognised that players were getting far too carried away slaughtering the local livestock and making a ton of money on the side. Think South Park's Make Love, Not War episode in a darker fantasy land, and you're pretty much there.

Chorts now spawn in Witcher 3 after a random amount of cows are killed in quick succession, the monster wiping out all but the most skilled players as a warning to not abuse the system.