Tuesday17 October 2006
Ah, bosses! How we love your meter-long life bars, cheap super-attacks and exp♐osed weak points. It's The Rules that games have to have them, so in this roll-call we look at eight titans that really threw their weights around.

These are some of the biggest of the big, deserving of their boss status by barely fitting on the screen,👍 let alone playing unfair.

The Hydra, God of War
In a game that does everything bi🎃g, you expect some mighty bosses, but what you don't expect is one to show its gigantic face - well, three faces - five minutes into✃ God of War's opening stretch.

You're constantly reminded of t🐽he Hydra's presence throughout the level and yet you'll probably still stifle a nervous whimper when yo🔯u clamber up the final shipwreck for the showdown.

Above: With two more heads and massive mouths where this one came from, the Hydra just won't quit

Luckily, avenging badass Kra🅠tos is made of sterner stuff and doesn't raise an eyebrow in the process of prising his way out of its jaws, nailing two of its heads to the deck and impaling the final one on a broken mast.