10 Hardest Video Game Levels That Required Incredible Skill

9. Challenge Of The Gods (God Of War)

The God of War games are built on rigid control systems that even after so many instalments, have barely changed. Last iteration God of War: Ascension only tweaked established animations, rather than introducing anything particularly groundbreaking. Back in the first game when original creator Davd Jaffe was behind the project, he knew how to crank up the intensity of what was on offer by playing with the world around you more than the combat itself; thus the 'Challenge of the Gods' were born. Taking place as a set of menu-selected bonus arenas that get steadily harder across their ten levels, any who played nearly always had a different 'hardest one'. For the sake of this list though it's numbers eight and ten that we're going to look at, as the former unleashed multiple petrifying Gorgons on you, which if they turned you to stone meant any other enemy could shatter you within seconds. Exactly what you want when you're on your 100th try. Level ten though is where many just had to give up and scream "Eff this game!", as the playing area itself is drastically reduced and you're forced to fight a large number of enemies in a very small space, with both Kratos' roll and his defence-break animations meaning he'd easily fall off. It was absolute torture, but with a character who controlled as symbiotically as everyone's favourite Spartan, nine times out of ten it was always our fault if we put a step wrong and plummeted into the depths below.