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The Top 7...Big Bosses

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

Words: Ben Schroder

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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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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

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Manny-Faces - 1 year 1 month ago

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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GamesRadarJoeMcNeilly - 1 year 1 month ago

LOL @ Death Star

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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

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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?

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Smeggs - 1 year 1 month ago

Last colossus is biggest.

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jakeroks - 1 year 1 month ago

Ganon in ocarina of time

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gatornation1254 - 1 year 11 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.

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Black_X_1111 - 1 year 7 days ago

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

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Satanshadow94 - 1 year 5 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

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pyro9393 - 11 months 22 days ago

wat about the skyscraper boss on devil may cry 2

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AA95mp - 11 months 16 days ago

yeah they should have the heartless from kh2

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pjbuhl - 10 months 2 hours ago

not just the heartless from kh2 but the final boss when your flying

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charley235 - 9 months 17 days ago

i love big bosses i find them funner to fight and more rewarding plus more intimidating-kingdom hearts pwns

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Synster - 9 months 17 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/.

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nato0519 - 9 months 16 days ago

I sure wish I saw Sin from FFX on this list. That was a biggg boss.

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