Summary
Easter eggs are commonplace in roleplaying games, especially inGrand Theft Auto 5and previous games in the franchise. One can find references to pop culture inGTA 5, like the iconic jacket fromDriveand even the Nakatomi Plaza fromDie Hard. There are also callbacks to real-life events like the 2011 London Riots and the Occupy Wall Street protests in the same year. One of the more interesting Easter eggs in the game could be referencing the TV dramaLost, and it’s just as mysterious as the show.
Grand Theft Auto 5is an action-adventure game with a fictional world that closely resembles reality. Its setting, San Andreas, is heavily based on the Southern California region of the United States. Its capital city, Los Santos, is a carbon copy of Los Angeles. It also borrows storylines from current events and existing works of fiction. Fans and game reviewers claim thatGTA 5is heavily inspired byHeatbecause of its armored car heist mission. Plus, one of its protagonists, Michael De Santa, is a dead ringer for Neil McCauley, Robert De Niro’s character. Easter eggs like these are scattered throughout the game. They make Los Santos feel more relatable, real, and animated all at the same time.
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How to Access the Underwater Hatch in GTA 5
Players can get tothe hatch inGrand Theft Auto 5by swimming off the East Coast of the map, and then submerging their character via submarine or scuba diving kit. One can easily find the hatch despite its depth. This is because it has a small window with a patch of light that players can easily see. The hatch is located on the seabed just outside the game’s kill zone. As such, when one tries to move closer using their scuba gear, their character dies due to the immense pressure of such a depth.
While players cannot go near the underwater hatch inGTA 5in any way, they can still get something out of it by listening to the sounds it makes. Some players have reported hearing tapping noises emanating from the hatch. People from the GTA Forums, a message board dedicated to the game franchise, also tried to decode what it means. One might think that it’s Morse code, but it’s a different kind of cipher called tap code. Users say that it translates to “Hey, you never call. How’d you fancy going bowling?” This is a reference toGTA 4’s Roman Bellic, who always asks his cousin, the protagonist Niko, to hang out with him. It’s a fun callback to an iconic line in the previous game.
What the Underwater Hatch in GTA 5 References
Keen players have figured out that the underwater hatch is a reference to The Hatch fromDamon Lindelof’s famous TV showLost. This structure led to an underground facility called The Swan. It was built on the island during the 1970s to study the unique electromagnetic fluctuations in the area. The main characters of the show used it as a place to hide from a hostile group of people chasing them down. They used The Hatch from time to time to enter and exit The Swan until its implosion in season two.
Despite being destroyed, the characters often find themselves coming back to The Hatch throughout the latter seasons. This is because of its significance to the mystery of the island. TheGTA 5underwater hatchis much less interesting, containing only a funny gag. It would be fun to see it come back inGTA 6, with the developers and designers going all in with a mission that references a momentous event inLost, just like they did with the heist that referencedHeat.
Grand Theft Auto 5is available now on PC, PS3, PS4, PS5, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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