13 Terrible Levels In Otherwise Awesome Video Games

4. Fairplay - Mafia

Mafia Fairplay
Illusion Softworks

Because the superbly cinematic action game Mafia really, really needed a racing level, here it is. The player is tasked with partaking in the Lost Heaven Grand Prix, in a brutally unfair mission that's ironically named "Fairplay".

The problem here is that the car handles like a milk float, and reaching first place is made additionally difficult due to the challenging AI.

The mission was so complained-about that the developer eventually released a patch that hugely toned the difficulty down, but it was ultimately too little, too late for those poor souls among us who suffered through it the hard way.

Mafia isn't an especially easy game at the best of times, but this level was straight-up bulls***.

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