9 Mysterious Creatures Hidden In Famous Video Games

5. A Megalodon Shark - Battlefield 4

Battlefield 4 Megalodon Shark
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Who doesn't love giant sharks? Every game should have a giant shark in it. Borderlands 3. Doom Eternal. The Last Of Us Part II. Sadly they probably won't, but one game that does have a giant shark is 2013's Battlefield 4, thanks to an easter egg that took fans several months to uncover.

The existence of this secret was first teased by DICE's Aleksander Grøndal in October 2013, who stated that the shooter contained something that would make everyone in the lobby exclaim "what the f*** was that". And this - along with some other hints that Grøndal was referring to a shark - compelled players to search the game's watery areas for clues, and in spring 2014, the megalodon shark finally became common knowledge.

A total of ten players are required to draw the megalodon from its hidey-hole, which can be found near the lone buoy on the Nansha Strike map. With all ten players close by, the shark will spawn, leaping out of the water Free Willy-style, flattening anyone unfortunate enough to be caught underneath it.

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