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** Gravemind. This is not only the hardest Legendary level in H2, but the hardest on Heroic as well. [[Check Point Starvation|Lack of checkpoints]], lack of ammo for good weapons, long battles with large numbers of enemies at a time, lack of cover, frequent [[Melee a Trois]] events, culminating in the big [[Multi Mook Melee]] in the Mausoleum. At least it doesn't have the Flood, which High Charity adds in.

** Speaking of High Charity... There's a reason Flood don't use sniper rifles in Halo 3.

*** [[It Got Worse|It Gets Worse.]]{{spoiler|1=On Mythic, the cruiser's health is increased, so now it take '''TWO''' shots from the mass driver to defeat it. [http://halo.bungie.org/gameplay/reach_mythic/poa.html?p=2 The MOST GRIZZLED of veteran Mythic gamers have said this challenge is all luck-based!]}}

** Tip of the Spear, HOLY CHRIST. Especially when you go to destroy that second Anti Air Turret; A pair of Hunters guard the door, and by this time it's INCREDIBLY likely that you're running low on ammo, and the only things the nearby grunts have are Needlers and Plasma Pistols. That's right, you're very likely to have to kill Hunters using small arms weapons. God help you if you wasted the plasma launcher from earlier.

** 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:

*** The very start is a deathtrap with three guards with grenades and assault rifles against you with a pistol. If one throws a grenade, it's a question of whether you decide to hit restart or just die. Your survival is entirely based on what they decide to do.

*** The [[Air Vent Passageway|vent screens]], [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|which you cannot see through but your enemies can]], making it very hard to next to impossible to get through the level with the health that you need to survive the final part of the level mentioned below.

*** There are multiple drone guns (six in all) which you must destroy without being sighted by them, sometimes by firing blindly. If you get hit, [[For Massive Damage|they will do massive damage.]]

* Return to Castle Wolfenstein has two stealth levels. The first is an infiltration mission, where you have to sneak into a Nazi base by following a supply truck to a compound in the middle of a forest. This takes place after you mow down enemies in the few levels preceding this level. Now here is the hard part. You have to ensure no alarms are set off in order to infiltrate the base, which can be done by smashing them. The fun part? It's rather easy to get detected while stalking the supply truck because there are sniper towers strewn throughout, as well as guards patrolling about. The same thing can also happen once you get into the compound, because there is a chance a Nazi guard may be around, and there is a sniper post inside the compound. The next stealth level is an assassination mission. You're pitted into a village, and your objective is to kill off five important Nazi officers inside the village. The same conditions as the previous stealth level apply to this one: Ensure that no alarms are set off. The hard part? It's easier to get detected in the village than in the forest, and there are always going to be at least a guard or more walking about. Heck, there can also be a few guards patrolling around certain areas of the village, and the paths in the village are linear.

* Wolfenstein 3d has E6m1. Imagine a level made up mostly of long hallways, with perpendicular niches. Now imagine that nearly all of those niches contain an "Officer" who will likely step out and block your path (likely shooting you for [[Massive Damage]] if you are reckless) unless you take a perfectly straight line through the halls, dead-center and just run for it. [[Sarcasm Mode|Have fun beating it if you're into hundred percent completion.]] Not a super-hard level but just so uninspired. Also, the music may drive you nuts; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MquBuwBW-Q4 See and hear for yourself.]

** 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.

* ''[[Quake III Arena (Video Game)|Quake III Arena]]'' (and by extension, ''Quake Live'') have space stages like The Longest Yard and Space Chamber. You will lose a point if you fall off or are knocked off the stage by another player.

*** The last level is a combination between this and [[Best Level Ever]]. On one hand, you get to use the APC's turret to mow down the Replica, who have been making your life miserable since almost the beginning. On the other hand, the final fight is [[Mind Screw|trippy]] to [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Eva]] levels. Oh, and it features an enemy who can multiply exponentially the longer you take to win.

* The Kamchatka levels in ''[[Soldier of Fortune]] II: Double Helix'' certainly qualify. The enemies have armor-piercing bullets, the grenades they lob come out of nowhere, and many times in the outdoor areas you can't ''see'' the bad guys until its too late.

* The final level of ''[[Condemned]] 2: Bloodshot'' is just all-around annoying, what with [[Mook|Mooks]] everywhere, limited health pickups, a frigging helicopter you have to fight and enemies with special powers who cause your screen to go blurry as Ethan (your main character) holds his head in agony as a shrill, irritating noise rings in your ears.

** In addition, Black Lake Lodge post the bear sequence seems to fit this trope for a lot of gamers, as it abandons the normal horror gameplay for a little while in favor of disarming bombs and busting caps in SWAT guys Tom Clancy-style.

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