The Top 7...Big Bosses

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

Words: on November 14, 2006

Ah, bosses! How we love their layered life bars, cheap super-attacks and exposed weak points. It's the rules that games have to have them, so in this roll-call we look at seven titans that really threw their weight around.

These are some of the biggest of the big, deserving of their boss status by barely fitting on the screen, let alone playing unfair.

7.  The Hydra, God of War, (PS2, 2005)

In a game that does everything big, you expect some mighty bosses, but what you don't expect is one to show its gigantic face - well, three faces - five minutes into God of War's opening stretch.

You're constantly reminded of the Hydra's presence throughout the level and yet you'll probably still stifle a nervous whimper when you clamber up the final shipwreck for the showdown.



Above: With two more heads and massive mouths where this one came from, the Hydra just won't quit.

Luckily, avenging badass Kratos is made of sterner stuff and doesn't raise an eyebrow in the process of prising his way out of its jaws, nailing two of its heads to the deck and impaling the final one on a broken mast.

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  • CommandantOreo

    CommandantOreo  - 10 months, 1 week ago  - Report

    Cleopatra from DI??? lol

    Recaptcha: Ifeedi Two. I don't have enough food to feedi two people!
  • Chaoscoolperson

    Chaoscoolperson  - 1 year, 3 months ago  - Report

    Plants vs. zombies dr. Zomboss.

    Biggest zombie ever in giant robot suit and you half to kill him with watermelons and jalepenos and cabbage and corn and frozen mushrooms.
  • someguy125

    someguy125  - 1 year, 8 months ago  - Report

    i want to make a colossi sanctuary and seperate one for the with the beard.
  • narutofreak1

    narutofreak1  - 1 year, 12 months ago  - Report

    WTF what about that city sinker from GoW 2? that thing was massive it took me like 30 min just to saw off the arteries around its heart???
  • martinlindved

    martinlindved  - 1 year, 12 months ago  - Report

    to me, it is really lazy to put sotc as number 1. yeah, they were big, but not all of them. and wouldnt Atlas from gow2 be an honourable mention?
    they should make a list of the biggest colossi in the game!:)
  • Kytl

    Kytl  - 2 years, 1 month ago  - Report

    Monster Hunter bosses
  • kare123ty

    kare123ty  - 2 years, 2 months ago  - Report

    What about Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon? There was one boss so big in that game that you had to find tons of enemies on top of it. It doesn't fit on any screen at all. The boss is HUGE.
  • jackthemenace

    jackthemenace  - 2 years, 2 months ago  - Report

    where's the leviathon from GoW2? or the final boss thing from Jak 3? or- god forbid- even the weird saviour thing from DMC4?
  • breener96

    breener96  - 2 years, 2 months ago  - Report

    Big Boss should've got an honourable mention!
  • Black_X_1111

    Black_X_1111  - 3 years, 2 months ago  - Report

    You forgetted that wooden giant thing in Phantom Hourglass. The one you kill with a hammer.
  • jakeroks

    jakeroks  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    Ganon in ocarina of time
  • Smeggs

    Smeggs  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    Last colossus is biggest.
  • SaulFidgeonGuy

    SaulFidgeonGuy  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    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?
  • oryandymackie

    oryandymackie  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    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
  • GamesRadarJoeMcNeilly

    GamesRadarJoeMcNeilly  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    LOL @ Death Star
  • Manny-Faces

    Manny-Faces  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    Lol Shadow of Colossos is always a fun game to replay luv those giants :D
  • pyro9393

    pyro9393  - 3 years, 2 months ago  - Report

    wat about the skyscraper boss on devil may cry 2
  • Satanshadow94

    Satanshadow94  - 3 years, 2 months ago  - Report

    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
  • gatornation1254

    gatornation1254  - 3 years, 2 months ago  - Report

    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.
  • pimlicosound

    pimlicosound  - 3 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    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.
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