10 Unexpected Video Game Difficulty Spikes That Brutalised Players

So what do Dark Souls and Driver have in common? Very little you might think, seeing as one is about a gothic horror slog against overwhelming odds and the other is an undercover cop title. However, both share common ground in the fact that their opening sections absolutely brutalized players.

Very few tutorials can claim to be as hard as Driver's and while the list of things you need to do is clearly stated on a checklist, the time limit, cramped location, and unfamiliarity with the controls is likely to lead to a fair few restarts. It's especially cruel because sometimes the game won't register what is clearly a slalom because you didn't finish or start it in the exact (and unmarked) spot that was requested.

What this resulted in was a game whose bar to entry was much higher than it's late-game content would ever reach!