15 Most Infuriating Video Game Boss Battles Of The 2000s

6. Ancient Wu's Flying Flaming Skulls - True Crime: Streets Of L.A.

Remember this madness? Following GTA III's appearance in the industry it was open season on copycat crime games to get in on the action. True Crime was such a title - and one of the better clones to emerge across the 2000s - but one section that sticks out as being not only random and inconsistent, but maddeningly annoying, is the sudden appearance of both zombies and flying flaming demon skulls. It's as daft as it sounds, and although the difficulty inherent to overcoming this section was as simple as knowing when to dodge-roll and return fire (you had to blast them in the eye), the scene itself makes this list through being so out of place tonally, that if you did get taken down by something as dumb as a flying skull, it was the most deflating thing possible. Imagine having the alien sequence in GTA V not be a drug-induced hallucination, being forced to accept that it actually happened, to your main character, and you were now playing through an alien sequence in the middle of an otherwise realistically framed game. That's how stupid True Crime's underground section is, and it became a frequently talked-about scene for all the wrong reasons.