Top 10 Video Game Final Stages
All great things must come to an end... but these games saved the best for last. Join http://www.watchmojo.com as we count down our picks for the Top 10 Video Game Final Stages.
To be perfectly clear, we're talking about the last level of game, we're not talking about final bosses nor are we talking about endings, because those are for completely different lists. Once again, for the sake of diversity, we're limiting our picks to one game per franchise, and as these are final stages, expect spoilers to pop up in quite a few entries.
Top 10 Video Game Final Stages
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All great things must come to an end... but these games saved the best for last. Welcome to Watchmojo.com and today, we're counting up our picks for the top 10 video game final stages. To be perfectly clear, we're talking about the last level of game, we’re not talking about final bosses nor are we talking about endings, because those are for completely different lists. Once again, for the sake of diversity, we're limiting our picks to one game per franchise, and as these are final stages, expect spoilers to pop up in quite a few entries.
#10: Halo “Halo 3” (2007)
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Kicking up our list is the dashing escape of the self-destructing Halo. After prematurely lighting the Halo ring causing it to slowly implode, you have to drive your way back to a ship while the whole place literally falls apart, while the Arbiter provides cover fire from remaining Flood. You have to make sure to not drive off the collapsing structure, while listening to the franchise’s epic score helping signify the end of the trilogy. Still, it seems weird that a monumental FPS trilogy would end with a driving section, hence why it’s only number 10.
#9: Aircraft Carrier “Crysis” (2007)
You probably knew that the game wasn’t really over, because you were still playing, but that doesn’t make this level aboard the aircraft carrier any more intense. Once all hell breaks lose, you have to navigate the claustrophobic hallways and save the ship from an alien attack. With water flooding the varioust sections and aliens tearing through the walls, you get a pretty good case of “panic” feeling.
#8: Act 4 “Diablo 2” (2000)
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Some might talk of final levels as being hell, but in this case, it's literal. To confront the lord of terror, you must venture in his sanctum in the depths of hell. What makes this last section so memorable is the buildup: after crossing a river of fire you enter the final sanctuary and have to release 3 seals before you can face titular monster himself. Once the last seal goes the ground shakes and you finally hear Diablo’s voice, letting you know your final challenge has begun.
#7: Cradle “GoldenEye 007” (1994)
An old classic, this level gets you moving right from the start with the alarm sounding signaling that very antenna you’re standing on about to align itself. After that, it’s a game of cat and mouse as you have to chase down MI6 traitor Alec Trevelyan while he constantly lobs grenades, takes random potshots at you, and taunts you the entire time. And just like the film its based on, the finale takes place on a narrow platform as you get to shoot Sean Bean off the side, making him fall to his death. He really does die in everything.
#6: Citadel “Half-Life 2” (2004)
This level threw quite a curve ball on you by making you lose all your regular weaponry as you entered it’s confiscation chamber. However, you get an upgraded version of the gravity gun, which finally lets you grab the one thing you couldn’t before: other people. This is a massive power trip, only slightly hampered by Big Brother wannabe Dr. Breen talking to you through the monitors on your way your way up, trying to change your mind. Good luck with that buddy.
#5: The World That Never Was “Kingdom Hearts 2” (2006)
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For a game which featured Disney characters, Kingdom Hearts sure had several dark settings, one of which being this dark city, filled with black skyscrapers and lit by a heart shaped moon. As its name implies, this world was made of nothingness and it's inhabitants, an organization of black hooded figures, wish to become whole by acquiring other people's hearts. And that’s not even taking into account all the other story details happening all at once, so many that’s impossible to describe them all in such a short time. Let’s just say things really come to a major climax here.
#4: Rainbow Road “Mario Kart" series (1992-)
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No matter which Mario kart game you’ve play, there is one universal truth: The last track will be this colorful but precariously placed road. Overall wondrous effects and the ever present possibility to plunge off the edge is always certain. Weather you’re on the barrier free SNES original, the super long N64 version or … well pretty much every other incarnation of this track, you’d better be ready to bring best driving skills here, and you’re probably going over the edge at least once.
#3: Eggmanland “Sonic Unleashed” (2008)
This level got its place on this list for being quite a difficult stage. It requires a lot of practice and an impeccable timing to be able to go through it. Here, you switch back and fourth between Normal and Werehog Sonic throughout this dark amusement park, As normal Sonic, not only do you have to deal with the sensory overload from tight turns on the running paths with traps galore, you have ride down a halfpipe in a robotic foot. Then as Werehog Sonic, you have to deal with ledge grab jumping sections across treacherous locations. Hope you’re not too eager to see the last cutscene, cause you will die quite a bit here.
#2: World 8-4 “Super Mario Bros.” (1985)
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For our younger viewers, this might an unusual choice, but for those who played this classic game, they’d know it as the fortress of doom where the biggest danger is the time limit. You have to navigate through Bowser’s maze to find the correct pipe to go down, but take a wrong turn and it takes you back to the start. The level tests you on everything you’ve learned in the game up to this point, from finding secret coin blocks, to dodging flying fish and even an unexpected swimming section. This is a textbook example of how to do a final level right. Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions. Tourian “Super Metroid” (1994) Airport chase “Max Payne 3” (2012) Kefka's tower “Final fantasy VI” (1994) Ganon's castle “The Legend of Zelda : Ocarina of time” (1998)
#1: The Suicide Mission “Mass Effect 2” (2010)
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Topping our list is Commander Shepard's heroic assault on the Collector Base. The whole game is built up to this very moment and its outcome will vary on how well you prepared, as once again the level tests everything you’ve learned. If you send a teammate to do a task they can’t handle under pressure, someone will die. That is a fact. So if you’re planning on transferring your progress to the 3rd game, you’d better get to know your crew very well. After all, it’s not called a suicide mission for nothing. Do you agree with our list? What final level really prepped you for the final boss? For more deadly top 10’s published daily, be sure to subscribe to Watchmojo.com.
