In the hit PC shooter games Call of Duty and Call of Duty 2, to enable cheats one must use the command console to set the value of the variable 'ThereIsACow' to 1337. There is no spoon: what exists is only Neo's idea of the spoon. This phrase in turn has been interpreted as a reference to the Buddhist concept of dependent origination. When the protagonist of the movie, Neo, meets a young boy with telekinetic abilities bending a spoon with his mind, the boy explains "There is no spoon." This is also a cheat in Warcraft III. In Warcraft III, players were able to access a secret level by locating a number of flaming sheep and killing them.Ĭuriously, the phrase bears resemblance to a famous quote in the movie The Matrix. The line lives on in the hearts of long-time Blizzard fans and as an occasional loading screen tip in World of Warcraft. For example, it was the cheat code in StarCraft used to skip the current level. Not helping rumors is the fact that there actually is a Cow Level in Diablo II, and there have also been numerous other cow jokes and "there is no cow level" jokes hidden in Blizzard's other games. The fact that, taken out of context, this comment just sounds bizarre and practically invites one to look for a cow level because someone felt it was important enough to deny something so bizarre has probably contributed a large part to its spreading as a saying among fans. So prevalent were claims by fans to have found the "secret cow level" in any number of Blizzard's games that their repeated, pithy response became a common utterance for fans:
(If you clicked a mysteriously-spawned cow several times, it supposedly opened a portal that led to a secret area, hence the name.) Descriptions vary from report to report of what exactly a "cow level" is, but they are generally accepted to be secret areas that contain significant numbers of bovines (sometimes including powerful, magic-wielding bovines) and little else. The content of this article is not part of official Warcraft lore, but has nevertheless become part of the World of Warcraft culture or community.īlizzard has, for years, been denying allegations of hiding secret "cow levels" in their games, especially the original Diablo, where the rumors first began.
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