10 Terrible Levels That Haunt Otherwise Perfect Video Games

7. Wrong Side Of The Tracks - GTA: San Andreas

GTA San Andreas CJ
Rockstar Games

"All we had to do, was follow the damn train, CJ!"

If you've never experienced this damning inditement first hand then it probably means one of two things; either you're a godlike Grand Theft Auto player who's never once failed a mission or, as is more likely, you've just never played GTA: San Andreas.

That said, if you're not in that group of four people, chances are you've had Big Smoke bark those words at you and walk off in disgust as you failed to kill the Vagos members staking out on top of a train. In that case you know how painfully annoying it is, not least because the mission itself is an absolute nightmare.

Keeping up with the train is made difficult thanks to San Andreas' pretty liberal approach to motorcycle handling, but on the occasions where you do manage it you can still fail anyway. Big Smoke shoots with all the accuracy of Arsenal reject Yaya Sanogo, meaning that you have to try to do that part as well. This is certainly a mission that Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas could have done without.

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