
Woe betide the player who enters that very same code when playing Tomb Raider II. It’s a handy code to use, and a good one to remember if you feel like barreling through the game with minimal resistance. In the original Tomb Raider, you could enter a code that would fill out your inventory with every weapon in the game, each with maxed-out ammo.

A word of advice: Don’t mess with the cows. It’s a giant monster with way more attack and defense power than any low-level witcher could hope to handle. Once the developers realized players were serial killing cows for cash, they added a new enemy that shows up if you start taking advantage of the exploit. If you did that enough times and sold all of the hides you collected, you could amass a small fortune very quickly. Once you did that, you could meditate to fast forward game time, causing the cows to respawn, at which point you could kill and skin them again. When it first launched, one of the best ways to make money early in the game was to kill and skin all of the cows that hung out in a particular field. And oh, how people have exploited The Witcher 3. The Witcher 3: Wild HuntĪny time you have an enormous game with as many collectible and sellable items as The Witcher 3, someone’s going to find a way to exploit the system. Most developers simply ban cheaters from playing their games, but some have concocted hilarious and inventive ways to give cheaters what’s coming to them.

Whichever kind of cheating you do, it’s on the developers to mete out punishment if they feel it’s warranted. And then there are people who cheat in online games against other people, which is almost always an unfair, crappy thing to do. Other times, like when you use exploits to “break” a single-player game, it’s more of a gray area. Sometimes cheating in video games is a harmless and fun way to experience the game in a way you wouldn’t be able to otherwise.
