10 Infuriating Video Game Levels You Forgot You Hated

3. Any Real-Time Strategy Level - Brutal Legend

Never has their been a game with such a perfect idea shown in a string of pre-release trailers that then completely missed out on capitalising on any of it, thanks to feeling completely different once fans got stuck in. (Well, almost never).

If you've got Jack Black, the license to use any heavy metal song you like from throughout the golden eras of both the 80s and 90s and you've got Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Halford and Lemmy as characters who'll pop up regularly, how in the blue hell do you then move away from the hack n' slashing approach fans couldn't shut up about, and into that of real-time strategy played out on the field with a variety of button shortcuts?

That's sadly the route Brutal Legend took, and in doing so royally peed away any semblance of fun alongside, as suddenly you couldn't enjoy the combat, visual aesthetic or the music - you were too busy running to and fro like a headless chicken guarding embattlements from always-impending destruction, forever fighting off waves of troops by yourself that you'd otherwise be managing with a variety of stat boosts and cool-down meters.

Brutal Legend remains a potentially cool idea on paper, but in its execution was one of the most deflating and unnecessarily difficult experiences going, especially past the halfway mark when the focus was almost entirely on the areas that felt the least satisfying.