Whether you’re watching a good movie, television 🍸show, or simply sitting back and enjoying a game, it’s always fun to feel our eyes pop out of our head when we see or hear a seemingly random celebrity make an appearance🌄.
My favorite cameos across all mediums include Bill Murray’s hilariously over-the-top performance in Zombieland, Bob Barker picking a fight with Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore, and Liam Neeson playing your father in Fallout 3.
And truthfully, the list of cameos are endless when it comes to movies, television, and video games. The💃 problem with games (and cartoons), however, ꦰis that it’s always a lot harder to decipher which celebrity is actually involved, and it’s even harder when the star is just providing their voice.
I can’t tell you the number of times ♑I was doing research for this list only to experience a minor freak out upon discovering some of my favorite video game characters were voiced by my favorite celebrities. It’s sort of like🐭 seeing something you can’t unsee, because once you find out, you almost won’t look at a game the same way ever again.
It even gets better when you’re scratching your head wondering the headspace that some celebrities were 🍌in when they agreed to work on games. And it even gets better when the veil is ripped down and you realize that a lot of already cool celebrities are also gamers.
So today, we’re going to explore over 25 different cameos in our favorite games that you may or may not have overlooked. Hopefully, you’ll have a newfound respect for these celebrities and a new perception on some of🍸 our favorite games.
25 ﷺ Halo 4: Conan O’Brien And Andy Richter
Our first cameo comes from Halo 4 and features the legendary comedic late-night duo of Conan O’Brien and Andy Richter. Conan is no stranger to games, as his segment “Clueless Gamer” has garnered tons༺ of popularity over the years.
Hearing these two do their schtick in a Halo game is the best kind of fourth-wall breaking humor.
You can find them both at the beginning of the mission 🥃“Shutdown,” where you’ll find two marines in the loading bay guarding crates. And trust us, these two don’t pull any ꩲpunches when it comes to meta-jokes.
24 True Crime: Streets Of LA: Snoop Dogg 🌜 🌠
Not only did Snoop Dogg provide some of his biggest tracks to True Crime: Streets of LA, but he even 🎶made a cameo in the game. Snoop is a hidden character in the game that, if you discover him, can help you get rid o💜f crime in Los Angeles.
The best part is that Snoop also comes equipped with his own mini-game and he rolls around town in his custom convertible. Trul♉y, Activision wanted the in-game version of Snoop to live up to his wellไ-known reputation.
23 𒁏 CO🎃D: Infinite Warfare: Kit Harington And Conor McGregor
Being a gamer that quit on Call of Duty a long, long time ago (Black Ops 2 days), I would’ve been clueless as to Kit Harington’s and Conor McGregor’s guest appearances in COD: Infinite Warfare.
The Game of Thrones star and UFC champ both appear in the campaign for Infinite Warfare, and Harington takes 🅺the role of the game’s main antagonist. What I do love about both of these cameos is just seeing how far technology has come in games as the video game versions of Harington and McGregor look like carbon copies of the stars.
22 ಌ Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson making an appearance in a GTA game is something that was bound to happen eventually. Grand Theft Auto being the ultra-violent game that it ﷺis, and Jackson being one of the most successful stars in ultra-violent movies like Quentin Tarantino films, this just seems like a match made in heaven. Rockstar definitely knows how to utilize Jackson’s talents.
Jackson plays the main antagonist in the game as Officer Frank Tenpenny, and let’s just saꦯy that he’🦄s a little over the top. Jackson uses some of his most “creative” language here.
21 🐟 WWE 2K16: Arnold Schwarzenegger 🌳
We tried our best to keep cameos from major sports games out of this or else you’d just be staring at a list featuring Justin Bieber and Kevin Hart in 2K.
But Schwarzenegger’s appearance in WWE 2K16 is just too good for us to pass up, especially since he reprises his role as the Te𝓰rminator. It might be a game, but WWE 2K16 might be good enough for us to call it the best thing featuring Terminator lore in almost three decades (yeah, it has been that long).
20 🎃 Space Channel 5: Michael Jacksꦉon
Even the King of Pop himself made his gaming debut, even though it may be a game that many are sure to not recognize, and that’s for good reason. Space Channel 5 is by no means a bad game, it’s just a really we𒈔ird o♉ne.
The game plays out like Sega’s version of PaRappa the Rapper, that’s also🍌 set in space. Oh, and no ra✱pping. But it’s a rhythm-based game nonetheless and gained a cult following and a lot of mainstream attention for featuring Michael Jackson.
19 𒆙 Fight Club: Fred Durst
Trust me, I was confused at first too. The g💙ame released back in 200🧔4, and if you guessed that you haven’t heard of it because it’s absolutely the worst, then you’d be 1000% right!
Fight Club is a fighter that does a really good job of messing up the message that the movie so masterfully built.
And perhaps the funniest part is that Limp Bizkit൩ singer Fred Durst makes an actual 🦹appearance as a fighter. Durst says he had seen the film “about 28 times,” but obviously not enough to stay away from this dumpster fire of a game.
18 Posta🍸l 2: Gary Coleman
You know I’d easily name this one of the strangest cameos on this list if it weren’t for it appearing in Postal 2. If you’ve ever played Postal 2 then you know the edginess, brutality, 🌠and psychopathic fourth-wall breaking humor that is this game.
So Gary Coleman making an appearance is really no shocker in a game like Postal 2.
What is weird is seeing Gary Coleman fight off police with an M16 he has on him in the middle of his book signing. And y💝es, this happens in the MAIN storyline.
17 GTA Vice City Stories: Phil Collins 🌃 ℱ
Phil Collins has released some of the most mesmerizing pop songs of all time. That’s why it was hilarious to see him pop up in a GTA game. Collins is actually featured in a fu🧔ll-fledged mission where you have to protect him while he plays the entirety of his smash hit song “In The Air Tonight.”
It’s easily one of my favorite missions from the game, but the absolute best part gets a little 🔥morbid. If you fail to protect Phil, the rafters fall onto him and the developers couldn’t help but stick a pun in.
16 ༒ Brütal Legend: Ozzy Osbourne ⭕
While we’d love to include Jack Black here, it’s fairly obvious that he’s in the game as we’re pretty sure that’s half the appeal to Brütal Legend. The real surprise cameo comeཧs from the lead singer of Black Sabbath, Ozzy Os🍸bourne.
Osbourne’s inclusion in this game is one that sent me back in my chair because the developers handled it unbelievably well. You meet Osbourne in the Underworld, and he first g♈reets you by saying “It’s about time!”