10 Intense Video Game Levels NO ONE Beat First Time

7. Omaha Beach - Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault

Next year Medal of Honor: Allied Assault turns 20 years old. Do you feel ancient yet?

The groundbreaking cinematic FPS is fondly remembered for delivering one of the most iconic levels in the genre's history - the unforgettable Omaha Beach.

In layman's terms, Omaha Beach was basically a video game version of the Normandy landing sequence from the start of Saving Private Ryan.

You play one of the many soldiers arriving on the shore via Higgins boat, tasked with crossing the beach head and fighting off the embedded German machine-gunners.

From the moment the boat opens its doors, this level is a sweaty-palmed vision of hell: bullets whizz around you, wiping out your AI squadmates at random, and if you put one foot wrong while crossing the beach, you'll either catch a bullet or a mortar to the face.

At the time of its release, the FPS had never delivered something so cinematic yet so nerve-wracking in its interactivity.

It remains arguably gaming's definitive depiction of war as hell, and once those tricky nests full of German machine-gunners were disposed of, most everyone let out a long sigh of relief.

We're surely overdue a remaster of Allied Assault at this point, no?