10 Video Game Levels We Hate

9. Alone in the Dark - Central Park

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2EOvBwYQw Now, the Alone in the Dark reboot was far from a great or even particularly passable game as it stands, but the Central Park section of the game showed a particularly enthusiastic contempt for the player. After getting to grips with the crappy controls, clunky camera and promising but flawed inventory system, you fight your way through an initial sequence and make it to Central Park, where you're essentially stuck for the majority of the game, making this "level" quite the buzz-kill indeed. The art direction is some of the most maddeningly dull and uninspired ever put to screen; it just looks drab and repetitive, and due to dire combat mechanics, not even some action can help enliven things. From a design perspective, the driving sections are probably the most infuriating, with embarrassingly poor physics, and far too many trees for the player to smash into. Simply, this is the gamble of making your game essentially one big level; if it sucks, so does your entire game.
 
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