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The Top 7...Big Bosses

We count off the most gigantic goons we've ever gutted

Words: Ben Schroder

5.  Ugh-Zan III, Serious Sam: The First Encounter (PC, 2001)

One of the rules of first-person shooters developed in Eastern Europe seems to be "Include a stupidly big boss." While Painkiller's monstrous hey-where'd-the-horizon-go baddie almost muscled its way into the list, we reckon it was the first Serious Sam's end-boss that started the trend.

Above: If you look really closely, you might be able to make out a 300 foot-tall demon in the distance.

When the game's waves of cannon fodder suddenly stop battering themselves against you like exploding bugs across a windshield you know something big's coming - but you're not prepared for just how big Ugh-Zan III is. Technically he's only three hundred feet tall, but at the time you'll have little time for measuring.


 
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ZoSo4  - 1 year 1 month ago 
yay teh first isme..... ev1 must naow watch red vs blue n pure pwnage, smoke weed n b happsy
Manny-Faces  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Lol Shadow of Colossos is always a fun game to replay luv those giants :D
Manny-Faces  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Can't wait for Resistence 2 to come out wanna fight the sears tower high super alien levianthin
GuardianOfOrzon  - 1 year 1 month ago 
You missed two big bosses here: The heartless in KH2 in the Lion King world and (this one is just so obvious!?!) the final boss from Rogue Galaxy (this thing is bigger then a couple of the others you mentioned and is awesome-looking.
pimlicosound  - 1 year 1 month ago 
How about the Death Star from the end of Star Wars (the original Arcade version). What boss could be bigger than a planet?

A bit easy and lacking in personality, though.
GamesRadarJoeMcNeilly  - 1 year 1 month ago 
LOL @ Death Star
oryandymackie  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Big bosses are easy... anybody remember beating the big cheese after his body had split and he was hanging from the rafters of the burning barn? That, was hard
SaulFidgeonGuy  - 1 year 1 month ago 
woohoo! shadow of the colossus!!! yeah, i always feel guilty after killing a colossus... except the last one, he was just just an evil bastard. but where was kingdom hearts in this list for darkness(that giant heartless u fight at the start and the end of the game) and the huge heartless monster that ansem transforms into at the end?
Smeggs  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Last colossus is biggest.
jakeroks  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Ganon in ocarina of time
gatornation1254  - 1 year 14 days ago 
I never had the pleasure of playing shadow of the colossus. For some reason i never got around to playing it. I'm kind of regretting it after seeing that massive colossus.
Black_X_1111  - 1 year 10 days ago 
You forgetted that wooden giant thing in Phantom Hourglass. The one you kill with a hammer.
Satanshadow94  - 1 year 9 days ago 
I'm glad god of war got on the list but they should have put the minoture machine thing in the temple I kept my ps2 because of shadow colosus
pyro9393  - 11 months 25 days ago 
wat about the skyscraper boss on devil may cry 2
AA95mp  - 11 months 19 days ago 
yeah they should have the heartless from kh2
pjbuhl  - 10 months 3 days ago 
not just the heartless from kh2 but the final boss when your flying
charley235  - 9 months 20 days ago 
i love big bosses i find them funner to fight and more rewarding plus more intimidating-kingdom hearts pwns
Synster  - 9 months 20 days ago 
Dude. Shadow of the Colossus was just plain /Win/. In every sense of the term. You'd think from the start "Oh Jeez! It can only get bigger!" But then they throw all sorts of sizes at you, and all you have is a Petty Sword and a Bow. Not including the Time attack stuff. That stuff is damn near impossible at that too.

I still think God of War has done bigger than the Hydras, though that's technically what started it for the God of War Series. The Colossus of Rhodes was just plain Huge. You walked around /inside of it/.
nato0519  - 9 months 20 days ago 
I sure wish I saw Sin from FFX on this list. That was a biggg boss.
sakboy97  - 9 months 20 days ago 
the leviathan in R2?
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