8 Imposing Video Game Bosses (That Secretly Suck)

4. Atlas - Bioshock

Come on, of course this big bald bulkhead was going to feature on the list as a) I absolutely love Bioshock and b) the battle with Atlas might well be one of the most frustrating boss encounters in the entire franchise. And yes I am including The Siren in this as well. And that was ABSOLUTELY terrible.

From the wave based boredom that Atlas hides behind to the fact that this is meant to be the super powered ascension of man but gets knackered after a short jog, Frank Fontaine is just a pretender to the throne and his boss battle feels like a tacked on waste. The build to this point had posited him as being the most powerful being in Rapture, a man who would bring the entire city to ruin if it made him a quick buck, and now with unlimited access to ADAM is a threat unrivaled.

Yet his bland design, the complete shift to brawn over brain and a hollow "rinse and repeat" three stabs to the chest to beat him challenge turns something as deep as the Atlantic Ocean to something as shallow as a puddle of p*ss. A real shame.