10 Video Game Levels That Gave You Anxiety

10. Metal Gear Solid 4 - Microwave Corridor

Konami's Metal Gear Solid 4 is one of wonderment, insane action and even wackier plot threads. It can twist and turn one minute, confuse the next, before wowing players with some insane robot-on-robot carnage the next. Seriously, that Rex vs. Ray showdown at Shadow Moses is a corker to behold.

Anxious moments aren't few and far between in this series, but still, when it comes to guiding the frankly battered Old Solid Snake through a microwave-emitting corridor in the game's final act, we weren't ready.

Yet unlike the torture sequences, this moment drags on for what feels like forever.

At first, it just seems like an arduous slog. Snake is old and dying, because nanomachines and whatnot, but he's still on his feet. Interspersed are scenes of his teammates battling, which alone makes it an anxious feat.

But the further he gets, the more the emitters take their toll on Snake. Soon he's resigned to literally crawling like a snake, as players frantically hammer the triangle button in a digital attempt to spur him on.

It's tense, it's stressful, and it feels like it's going on forever.