11. Opening Tutorial - Driver
Reflections InteractiveMost of us skip tutorials in video games, right? The majority of the time most players will be able to pick up what they need to know on the fly, so why waste time being babysat when you can dive right into the carnage? Driver didn't give players much of a choice, forcing them to take part in a brutally difficult tutorial, which required them to perform 9 key driving maneuvers inside of a 60-second time limit. Now, for starters, when playing this game as a kid, who the Hell is going to know what terms like "burnout", "handbrake" and especially "slalom" mean? How many of us out there had to ask our parents what they meant or go look in the dictionary? Then there's the absurdly unforgiving time limit, which is tight even if you're a skilled player, making this pretty much the hardest mission in the entire game, and that's saying something. On the other hand, it does leave you pretty prepared for everything the game has to throw at you thereafter, even if we'd prefer to have been eased into it rather than forced into this dementedly difficult driving lesson.