10 Video Games That Pissed Off Gamers Right Away

You knew it was coming. Possibly the single most poorly thought-out opening to any video game in history.

Driver is an extremely fun action driving game... if you're able to make it past a tutorial designed to grind your soul to dust.

The infamously challenging tutorial tasks players with completing a laundry list of vehicular manoeuvres within a butt-clenchingly tight time limit, ensuring that younger players in particular were basically unable to start the game proper.

After all, how many eight year olds know what a "slalom" is? As a result many a child spent literally hours figuring this thing out - if not letting an older family member or friend figure it out for them - somehow made even worse by the insanely bland setting of an underground car park.

On the flip side, it does effectively trivialise the rest of the game - save for the tricky final mission - which seems laughably easy by comparison.