8 Back-Breaking Video Game DLC Bosses

8. The Assassin - XCOM 2: War Of The Chosen

So let's get the record straight right off the bat, when it comes to delivering a well-thought-out, lovingly crafted and fundamentally challenging expansion, XCOM 2's War Of The Chosen is right up there as some of the best DLC that money can quite literally buy. It's an astoundingly deep addition, providing the player with new units, new powers, and of course new enemies which take the form of three uber-bosses The Hunter, The Warlock, and the Assassin.

However, let's also make clear from the jump another salient point. f**k the Assassin right in the exhaust port because fighting against her feels like trying to pass razor blades through my tear ducts as it's reducing me to bloody tears.

Seriously, fighting against the Assassin feels like the devs looked at the XCOM difficulty memes floating about the internet and felt pressured to one-up them, as here you'll find your well-orchestrated plans ruined in moments by this shimmering shade arriving in your back lines and dazing, binding and kidnapping your team.

Plus with skills like Shadowstep, she can completely remove your ability to counterattack, and with the Planewalker ability, she can teleport about the map each time she's hit making it impossible to focus fire her off the board.

And remember, she's not alone, so you have to deal with all the ADVENT units on top of potentially being one-shotted by her melee attack that, I forgot to mention, never ever misses. COOL.