6. Syndicate 1993
When someone talks about how hard games are these days, my first thought is how doomed we are if God of War 3 is considered difficult (The game TELLS you which buttons to push!). The second thought is that this child wasnt around for games like Syndicate (also known as: Youll Never See The Ending), the most infuriatingly hard game Ive ever loved to absolute death. Tom Clancys Shadow Watch would have made this list, but Syndicate fits better in terms of the subject overall. The moment I heard that this title was to receive an update, and then that said update would be just another FPS I never even bothered. Syndicate was one of the few games that allowed players to experience turn based, strategic action without muscular little people, fey creatures and dragons. But it also featured a take on capitalism if followed to its seemingly obvious conclusion, a conclusion that sucks admittedly. In the future, corporations have risen to control the entire world not from behind the scenes but right out in the open. Syndicates fight for control of the populous in the streets as well as the boardroom. The players job is to win at the business war by killing everyone, with the goal of winning Super Hyper Turbo Death Monopoly Alpha.... 2!!! (Brownie points to anyone that gets that)