Highlights
- Grand Theft Auto games are filled with weird and bizarre easter eggs, such as alien invasions, shooting the moon, and ghost encounters.
- The inclusion of these easter eggs showcases Rockstar Games' creativity and adds unanswered questions and mysteries to the game.
- These strange easter eggs in Grand Theft Auto history provoke players to think about their significance and contribute to the overall enjoyment of the game.
The Grand Theft Auto series is filled with easter eggs. Whether it’s fourth-wall-breaking moments, crude pop culture references, or literal aliens. The best easter eggs in Grand Theft Auto history are the ones that are unapologetically weird and bizarre, allowing Rockstar Games to express their creativity and flair for the random, and provide players with unanswered questions and mysteries that still haunt players to this day.
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With decades of Grand Theft Auto games, there is an abundance of easter eggs to enjoy. It begs the question of how far Rockstar Games will go with the potential easter eggs in Grand Theft Auto6. However, whilst players wait for that day, they can look back fondly at the array of weird easter eggs in Grand Theft Auto history.
6 Alien Invasion (Grand Theft Auto 5)
The illusive and long-rumored alien DLC from Grand Theft Auto 5 has some ground considering the abundance of alien easter eggs in the game. Players can find multiple easter eggs dedicated to aliens in GTA 5. There’s a destroyed alien ship at the bottom of the ocean, there’s even an alien encased in ice during the prologue mission. Aliens seem to be absolutely everywhere in Grand Theft Auto 5, begging the question of why.
There are also multiple UFOs that can be found after players have obtained 100% completion in the main story. Players cannot enter these UFOs in the classic GTA style of stealing them, and getting too close will actually injure the players. Nevertheless, it’s very weird indeed to have alien invaders feature in GTA 5.
5 Shooting The Moon (Grand Theft Auto 3)
In many of the 3D GTA games, players can use a sniper rifle, or any weapon with a first-person scope, to shoot at the Moon. When players do such a thing, the Moon will grow in size, or shrink. Although no one seems to acknowledge the fact that a single bullet has the capability of growing the Moon to double in size as before, it’s still a fun and weird visual easter egg.
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This easter egg started in Grand Theft Auto 3 and has stuck around ever since. Players can’t mess with the tides or the NPCs around the map, but they can certainly mess with themselves and the game by shooting the Moon, creating a silly effect for the world’s backdrop.
4 The Heart Of Liberty City (Grand Theft Auto 4)
Deep inside the Statue of Happiness, which in itself is a blatant reference to New York City’s Statue of Liberty, players can enter into the center, and discover something disturbing awaiting them inside. Players won’t find a might of treasure, but they will uncover a secret that will cause them to gasp in horror, for a large, beating heart of the statue lies inside, coated in chains to keep this statue immovable.
The fact that the Statue of Happiness in Grand Theft Auto 4 is alive, is a mystery, and a weird one at that. Hopefully, there’s not going to be a Ghostbusters 2 situation, in which this grand copper statue comes to life. Yet, it would be equally disastrous if the loud thumping and beating heart stopped.
3 Zombie Laboratory (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
Heading into the Downtown district of San Fierro in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, players will find a distinct building, with a sign-out front that doesn’t exactly hide the disturbing business inside the inaccessible building. Players will find the Zombotech Corporation, which welcomes visitors and lets them be aware that their experiments are literally to create “sinister zombies” and “virus research”.
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Hopefully, this is just a front, but if not, it makes for a truly weird GTA easter egg that deserves more recognition, and the potential for zombies in Grand Theft Auto would be a joy to many, especially after players have already enjoyed Red Dead Redemption’s zombie DLC, Undead Nightmare.
2 Hillary Clinton (Grand Theft Auto 4)
Politics and video games do not mix, and politicians have often petitioned and made clear that they want regulations and even bans on certain video games. That’s probably why Rockstar Games spared no expense in their ruthless recreating Hillary Clinton’s likeness for the Statue of Happiness. At the time of GTA 4, Hillary Clinton was the U.S. Secretary of State.
Grand Theft Auto is not void of controversy in the slightest, and it probably never will be. However, it’s most likely that the reason Hillary Clinton is the face of the Statue of Happiness in GTA 4 boils down to the fact that she tried to take Rockstar Games to court over the infamous Hot Coffee scenes of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
1 The Ghosts Of Los Santos (Grand Theft Auto 5)
Aliens and ghosts? It seems that the only thing that Grand Theft Auto 5 is missing is zombies. Ghosts are not just a fictional myth that lurks in the circles of conversation in Los Santos, and as the protagonists of GTA 5 will learn, they are very real, and players can actually encounter Jolene Cranley-Evan’s Ghost.
There have been many reports of ghosts in Grand Theft Auto history, but this one in GTA 5 was the first time it was confirmed true. Players could find this ghost at the bottom of Mount Gordo between 11 PM and 12 AM, so long as they aim through a scope to see it. Even weirder, players can hear whispers and screams once they look at the ghost.