10 Brutally Hard Areas Hidden In Video Games

10. Area 51? - Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped

If the original Crash Bandicoot is often cited as one of the most deceptively difficult platformers of all time, the two immediate sequels were generally far more forgiving, especially Crash 3: Warped.

But Crash 3 nevertheless offers up a disc-snappingly difficult secret level which can be accessed by first acquiring 15 time trial relics and then entering the secret warp room (which is first accessed by receiving five relics).

The secret warp room's third level is "Area 51?," another of the game's already-infamous motorcycle stages, with the added difficulty that you're racing against a speedy UFO and doing so in the middle of the night with extremely limited visibility.

Though the N. Sane Trilogy version of the level has had its difficulty nerfed somewhat, the original PS1 article was more or less an exercise in rote memorisation through repeated failure - and an absolutely infuriating one at that.

As much as players rightly complain about how fiddly and annoying the regular motorbike levels are in Crash 3, this bonus one is a piss-taker on a biblical scale.