10 Video Games With The Most Epic Boss Line-Ups Of All Time

Psycho Mantis, Sniper Wolf and Liquid Snake - how do you top that?

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Konami

Any gamer has a story to tell about thwarting a particular boss. The ones that made you cry, the ones that made you scream, the ones that made you clench your buttocks from sheer stress as you get to within one hit away of defeating them after 20 attempts...

But now it's time to send all those legendary bosses back to their places of origin, and see which games featured the greatest boss rosters of them all, putting us through battle after epic battle that kept us on our toes from both sheer toughness, and through a spine-tingling presentation. 

A solid line-up of boss battles in a game, united by their mechanical brilliance and formidable presence, can raise it from being fun to all-time greatness, and here are 10 games whose boss battles enshrined them in our memories forever.

10. God Of War III​

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Sony

Not everyone warmed to the final entry in the God of War series. But then again, warmth and sweetness aren't really needed in a game about all-out war between Titans, arrogant Greek gods and an apoplectic Spartan called Kratos.

God of War III wasn't a subtle game. It screamed epicness, hitting you over the head with it until your skull caved in. This is perfectly embodied in the game's boss battles, as you take on Zeus, Poseidon and co. in a series of majestic, operatic encounters.

Each battle is a healthy mixture of the series' classic combo-based gameplay and quick-time events, but what really defines them is their sheer scale. Breaking free from between the fingertips of the Titan Cronos, taking on the God of the Sea while scaling Mount Olympus aback a Titan, and ultimately tackling Zeus himself in an apocalyptic showdown - it's epic in the truly mythological, classical sense of the word (as well as in the the tacky, gamer-community sense too).

It's the majestic presentation as much as the gameplay that earns this most divisive of God of War games a place on this list.

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