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The Top 7... toughest opening levels

Oooh. It's a bit hard, isn't it?

Words: Dave Meikleham, GamesRadar UK
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ELpork  - 1 year 28 days ago 
Ghaaaaa, I hated that driver level.
Defguru7777  - 1 year 28 days ago 
ZOMG!!! They're crushing my spine!!!!!
Rasy2kG  - 1 year 28 days ago 
Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts pissed me off back in the day, that's a hard-ass game to beat
danerdy1  - 1 year 28 days ago 
God knows I agree with Mega Man 9 being #1. That game is the Devil!
kubesson  - 1 year 28 days ago 
i agree with the driver one...that made me want to scream with anger and spit on tanners blocky face (even tho he couldnt get out of a car). What about Devil May Cry 3? the first level was just stupidly hard with the crazy boss at the end...that made me hate dante forever!
LionheartAce  - 1 year 28 days ago 
Yes! Mega Man 9 make's you it's bitch with those fucking elephants... God.
Themis  - 1 year 27 days ago 
DMC 3 does deserve an honourable mention - not because it's harder than any in this list, but just for the way it lets you cruise through the first level 'till you get to the boss at which point you die instantly the first time, only for the game to seemingly bait you by asking if you would like to switch to easy mode.

Cheeky.
CrippleMrOnion  - 1 year 27 days ago 
You forgot about the training level of Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness. Die 3 times and take back to shop.
NullG7  - 1 year 27 days ago 
What no mario everyone has to have seen that one guy getting pissed at that first ever-changing invisible platform of doom?
kurkosdr  - 1 year 27 days ago 
So, glad I am not the only one to think that "tutorial" in Driver was way to hard. It's not the moves you have to perform. It's the time limit, the "don't scratch the ride" limitation, AND the moves you have to perform. Oh, and you can't change the control settings unless you get past this.

The publishing company itself had to put up a detailed guide in it's "support" section to help players get past the tutorial. It basically tells you how to do the moves. Must be done in a particular order, in a certain way, as the guide tells so, if want to have any serious chances in playing the game.

Then you get to play some ridiculously easy levels, and then, bang! the final level is a showstoper again.
Shifty1001  - 1 year 27 days ago 
Pretty good article and all, but I feel the need to say this one thing: You really, really, REALLY like alliteration, don't you?
noobeater  - 1 year 27 days ago 
well iv never played these but 3 gaming moments i just cannot do.
1)cod 4 level in the plane on hardest setting.i did it easy on all other settings but i cannot do it, the closest to completion is 4 secs. done everything else.
2)the last set of missions on blast corps are impossible
3)i love resident evil 4 but i couldnt even get out of the first alleyway on resident evil 2 tho i was only little
lol great article
georgeguy  - 1 year 27 days ago 
god i got the demo for the mega man and i just get pwned by the fricken elephants...

but then again... maybe i just suck
Scott1121  - 1 year 27 days ago 
those elephants in mega man 9 kicked the crap out of me so many time
foarthelulz  - 1 year 27 days ago 
the opening lvl for alien hominid is SO EASY how do u have trouble w/ it
TrippyMan  - 1 year 27 days ago 
The ELEPHANTS? I though they were tough but they deserved to be #7, not #1! Maybe I just a Megaman master, but I thought that nunchuck bastard from Ninja Gaiden is hardest on the list.
Christrigg1  - 1 year 27 days ago 
lol. driver seems the hardest. i mean cmon! why should we figure out this load of monkey dung ourselves? id rather stick a hot iron ripe in my pants and land on it when jumping off a freaking lit bbq while barefoot!
Humblemumble  - 1 year 27 days ago 
I don't mean to sound arrogant or anything, but I found the opening level in Alien Hominid incredibly easy. Some of those levels did get hard later. Way later. I'm not like an uber player either, I'm basically average at video games.
mozaralio  - 1 year 27 days ago 
heck i beat alien homonid that was decently easy but i agree most of the other games you have talked about were damn near impossible
DisgruntledTable  - 1 year 27 days ago 
WHERE IS IKARUGA?
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