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** Aztec, the first bonus level and penultimate one of the entire game. Tellingly, it's actually ''harder'' than the final level of the game, whose only real difficulty is [[Trial and Error Gameplay|figuring out the safe path]] in the Golden Gun room. Even the official ''[[Guide Dang It|Player's Guide]]'' says this is a [[Luck Based Mission]]. Aztec is hard even on the easiest difficulty, but set the difficulty to [[Nintendo Hard|00 Agent]], and let's count the ways:

** You're Elvis, which means you have to aim much higher than you're used to in order to get [[Boom Headshot|headshots]].

*** Deep Sea: Nullify Threat. Let's see, it's pitch black for most of the level, and you have to fight your way through a bunch of cloaked guards running all over the place while you have only a [[Short Range Shotgun|shotgun]]. Next you have to [[Escort Mission|protect Elvis]] while you two disable the Cetan weapon. After that, you have to fight off endless waves of little Skedar, Mr. Blondes and still more of those damned red-uniformed guards before the ending sequence, which gives you [[Always Close|one minute to escape the ship before it explodes]].

** You want a level that is really hard in that game? Try "[[Nintendo Hard|Atom Smasher]]" on Normal or Hard. Playing this level on any of those difficulties is equal to playing "Mansion" in [[Time Splitters]] but almost worse. There are snipers everywhere, hardly any health or armor, henchmen wielding [[AKA 47|Soviet S47s]] and [[Hollywood Silencer|silenced pistols]] that can chew through your armor (if you have any), checkpoints that are few and far between, sentry guns with cameras (on one occasion you have to destroy one up close), and short detonation times<ref>You have to defuse some bombs during this level, usually by having a scientist defuse one nearby</ref> means you'll be bald after completing the level after so many damn times. The [http://tsmusicbox.com/music/ts2/Atomsmasher.mp3 BGM] for this level means "You are [[Oh Crap|screwed]]."

** Levels 16 and 18 of Spear of Destiny put anything in the original game to shame. The [[Game Mod]] Spear Resurrection ups the ante even further with its level 13, The Great Escape, which would have already been an extremely long and difficult level but gives you the additional problem of [[No Gear Level|not having weapons]] in the early part of the map.

** For clarification, the sniper rifle is the one non-explosive weapon in the game that ''you can't block with the lightsaber''. The only way to avoid damage from them is taking cover (which is suddenly nonexistent once you're actually in their territory) or hoping that both you have a full Force bar and they only [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|fire one beam at a time]] when they shoot you (Kyle will auto-dodge using Force Speed if both conditions are met. ''[[Luck Based Mission|Sometimes.]]'').

** While not exactly that one level for the most part the level Hunted in ''Modern Warfare'' makes up for the rest of the level in one 'short' part involving a helicopter. During this one part you have to take out a bunch of people and then get into a barn to be able to advance, now overall this really isn't all that hard, even on veteran. But what makes it hard is they give the helicopter a gun. To put it lightly the helicopter is a [[Game Breaker|bitch]]. On veteran it will kill you in about a second if you are not constantly in cover. Now if this still sounds easy, [[It Got Worse|think again]], the helicopter will move to make sure that you never have very good cover. And then there is the part where you have to leave cover to get to the barn, which you can't just charge into otherwise you will die. So you have to patiently sit outside the barn while the helicopter kills you and you do the whole thing all over again. [[Luck Based Mission|Really it comes down to whether the helicopter decides to be stupid and move behind the barn]].

** The beginning of "Shock and Awe" had you manning the helicopter's mounted Mark 19 grenade launcher while you approach the city. A minute into the mission you come to the bridge with enemy infantry and anti-aircraft gun nests a little farther on. Having a very limited angle at which you can turn the weapon as well as the necessity of watching an overheat meter while shooting in rapid succession, you will realize you die repeatedly exactly at the same moment simply because you can not aim at the hostiles who are just a hair outside the gun's operating area even if you try (and try you will). While during other strenuous missions you are able to switch tactics, in this assignment you are either bound to succeed or taking a cold shower. On [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels|Veteran]] this quickly comes down to being infuriated at seeing the same scripted stretch of desert as you approach the same spot again. And again. And again. The hint? {{spoiler|[[Luck Based Mission|Pray for enemies to miss the helicopter right away ]] and try to shoot the nearby vehicles in hopes of catching the infantry within the blast radius or at least giving you time to get within the cannon's range.}}

** While "All Ghillied Up" is overall an awesome mission, there's one part that's hell. It's the part where you go prone in an open field while a convoy passes right next to you. There's one soldier in the convoy that almost acts as if he is programmed specifically to head right for you and discover you. If you lay down anywhere other than ''right behind'' MacMillan ([[Luck Based Mission|sometimes]] even ''when'' you lay down there), he discovers you and you die.

** "Loose Ends" is the definitive [[That One Level]] on veteran, the defense of the house itself turns out to be pretty easy if you find the right position to camp (although it's easily this if you don't), but the true nightmare comes when you have to escape; there are tons of enemies from every angle, and they spawn when you are out in the open (so there's very little chance to thin their numbers). So, in the end, pretty much all you can do is keep running and using flashbangs it until you [[Luck Based Mission|hit the point where the scripted sequence]] that ends the level starts. That everything after the house defense was all for naught just makes it worse.

** The last level at Armacham. The entire Armacham mission arc is more or less made up of nothing but a series of those one levels for various reasons, such as having scarce resources, high numbers of enemies, labyrinthine design and no map, or having to face many [[Boss in Mook Clothing|walker]] [[Mini Mecha|units]]. The last one is unique pain because you are already weakend from the previous missions, but you still have to press on. There isn't much health or ammunition, and to top it all off, you face a rather long section full of nothing except for [[Goddamn Bats|flying robotic drones which are small, hard to hit, have flawless accuracy, do a good amount of damage, take a fair amount to kill, and don't give you anything back.]]

** From ''Vegas 2'', the Nevada Desert level. Even with your teammates being [[Artificial Stupidity|incredibly retarded]], at least they were good at attracting bullets otherwise meant for you. Here, you have none of that - your only support is an NSA agent who isn't even physically with you and is [[Stop Helping Me|entirely useless]]. Your ability to call in thermal scans to see where enemies are is gone. You cannot stealthily pick them off - kill one and everybody's instantly alert to your presence.

* [[Payday the Heist]] has, for Easy Difficulty, Heat Street, which will more likely than not result in somebody getting downed a few times the first few times it's done on easy. Most people will then figure out where the best cover is and then it loses it's edge on Normal. Green Bridge, the last mission available on Normal, is Heat Street but much more difficult, requiring you to make a mad dash to one location THROUGH AN ENDLESS ASSAULT to survive. Even on Normal, people can get screwed over by the [[Luck Based Mission|Luck-Based]] plane pickup section (If you get it on the first balloon, you are in for a lot of problems.) Both of the two Hard/Overkill missions have already been beaten on Overkill, complete with video proof. Neither of these two, as of this writing, been cleared on Overkill on-camera.