15 Most Infuriating Video Game Boss Battles Of The 2000s

13. General RAMM - Gears Of War

Speaking of stop n' pop cover systems, the first Gears of War was a revolution in game design, perfecting a third-person action formula that everyone from James Bond to Harry Potter would then implement in various ways across their games. Come the close of that first GoW though, Epic needed something that would shake the foundations down the core, giving you a showdown against the hulking General RAMM and a setup that should you peak out from behind your once-safe cover, would get your squad eviscerated on the spot. See, RAMM had with him a horde of vicious flying Kryll; small bat-like creatures who were essentially flying razorblades. Taking him down meant creating a break in the shield they formed around him, and to do so you'd have to perfect when to leap out from cover and back into the next, where to fire and when to back off. One wrong move spelt instant death and a trip back to the previous checkpoint (annoyingly just before the fight, not at the beginning of it) as this marked the one and only time Gears' gameplay didn't play to its strengths.