10 Best Stealth Video Game Missions (According To The Internet)

10. Confronting Mr Freeze - Batman: Arkham City

Score breakdown: 3 appearances in 16 critic lists (5 series appearances) and winning a fan poll for best of series by 49% out of 67 votes. Best mission decided by critic list appearance.

Arkham City may seem a strange choice for this list. Batman is, after all, less ghost and more predator, ploughing through crowds of gun-toting, knife-wielding mooks like the proverbial Texas tornado; stealth is entirely optional. But not against Mr Freeze.

This is an encounter where fisticuffs is a one-way ticket to a game over screen and staying out of sight is paramount. So if sneaking isn’t your thing it was time to learn a new style, and fast.

Worse, up until that point City had been quite happy to indulge you. Like swooping down from gargoyles? Go ahead. Prefer popping out of vents like some pointy-eared chest-burster? Peachy. But against Freeze once you burned your favourite move, that was it, you’re not using it again. This fight planted you firmly on the ground, taking you out of your comfort zone and forcing you think very carefully about where you moved and how you did it.

As a stealth mission it is perfection, a tense, entertaining brain-teaser that requires quick thinking and quicker reflexes, all employed against a tough, challenging opponent.