10 Worst Parts Of 5-Star Video Games
9. Wrong Side Of The Tracks - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
"All we had to do was follow the damn train, CJ!"
It's a statement chiselled into the mind of anyone - everyone - who picked up a copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Wrong Side Of The Tracks is the sixteenth main mission in the title and indisputably GTA's most rage-quit-inducing. It's a simple concept, driving Big Smoke via motorcycle as he chases a group of Vagos aboard a train. It was too simple to be that easy, though; nobody completed it on their first attempt and those who ultimately finished it seriously considered lobbing their console out the window. The mission was an arduous, distressing task that put players off the game's missions and into a frenzied, five-star wanted level state of mind across San Andreas.
The joke is that following "the damn train" was impossible, given the relatively slow speed of the motorcycle in comparison. That the moving Vagos were on top of the train, as opposed to roaming through its carriages, added unnecessary pain to players. Riding alongside the train, as was common practice for the mission, restricted Big Smoke's aim, meaning players had to find higher ground before even contemplating the mission's completion.
It almost made you wish CJ had never known Big Smoke, simply so that he wouldn't have been roped in as the driver.