10 Video Game Difficulty Modes That Are Utterly BROKEN

10. Veteran Difficulty - Call Of Duty: World At War

In the vast majority of the Call of Duty games, Veteran difficulty represents the absolute highest level of challenge, and while most entries into the series manage to offer a Veteran experience that's tough-but-fair, 2008's World at War took the concept to a level of infuriating self-parody.

The big problem that breaks World at War's Veteran mode is that enemy soldiers are programmed to effectively spam the player with grenades during any prolonged combat encounter, more often than not causing the player's death.

There's no attempt here by developers Treyarch to establish a convincing line-of-sight between the player and the AI: just an unrelenting shower of explosives until you need to start from the latest checkpoint.

Beyond that, AI spawns are extremely fast, ensuring that moving forward through a level feels like a near-Sisyphean feat, and your own braindead AI teammates generally won't offer up much assistance.

The infamous level "The Heart of the Reich" is by far the greatest indicator of how broken Veteran truly is - an endurance trial of raining grenades and brutally unfair checkpointing, which all but the most committed Call of Duty players never made it past.