10 Video Game Levels We Hate

10. Plants vs. Zombies - The Fog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1IKUfDIffxI Plants vs. Zombies is a great game, and one of those little surprises that just seemed to come out of nowhere and blow everyone away. However, that doesn't mean we're going to let it get away with its despicable set of fog-based levels, which beleaguer the player with a cheap handicap to make things more difficult. Basically, fog obscures half of your field of vision, meaning that you can't really see what's coming after your plants half the time, but it's not a clever or fiendish way to challenge the player - it's lazy and uninspired. Any game could just blank out half the screen and it'd be a lot harder; how about coming up with something intelligent that forces the player to re-think their strategy? Instead, we have to suffer through these levels with a sheepish grin on our faces, but at least they don't sour the experience for too long, if still long enough...
 
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