10 Notoriously Difficult Levels In Video Games

4. Through The Fire And Flames - Guitar Hero III

Guitar Hero fuelled everyone's 'rock God' fever dreams, allowing those who didn't have the musical capacity to master a real guitar to experience what it was like rocking out to their favourite songs. And everyone remembers the ending to Guitar Hero III as you play 'Through The Fire and The Flames' as the credits roll. Easy for most of us, but for those playing on Expert...

You had one of the most cramp-inducing challenges gaming has ever seen. Having to master the song down to a tee - a song that moves incredibly fast by the way - and play it near flawlessly, players who completed the song on Expert mode quickly rose as the true deities of Guitar Hero.

It was hard enough on hard and medium with the song barely punishing you, but expert mode required you to have a complete mastery of some ludicrously tight timing windows, almost like mastering some lightning-fast guitar solos of the 80s.