Favorite Level

[XavierMcV]

Duke Nukem 3D - Hotel Hell. Had some great death matches there.
For single player, it have to be The Abyss or Dark Side.

 

[Quistnix]

Anathema from the second Hitman game. First time I played te game I just kept doing that one over and over, finding new possibilities every time.

Portal - last chapters. i really felt like i was breaking the game...like, the designers didn't actually intend for me to escape...
Deus Ex - ahh shit i can't decide on one...ahhh.

And the Cathedral in Fallout, and all of Planescape: Torment.

But the Hitman 2 level takes the cake, nothing compares to that one.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Rez, Area 5. That is all.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

Zelda: OoT's Fire Temple comes to mind. It's got some huge sprawling areas that are especially nice to look at in the steamy filter that permeates the entire level. I also managed to get the original version that has the holy chant.

I always loved some of the great level designs and music from the first 2 Megaman X games- Magna Centipede's computer center actually introduces some modicium of stealth into the series that forces you to use the background layers to hide. Plus, there's a spot where the number of times you are detected affects how strong and fast the 2nd Mini-Boss is. That one and Crystal Snail's cave had amazing visuals for their time.

 

[SimpleReally]

Warcraft 3 had so many absolutely epic levels, like the one where you had to kill 100 villagers before the enemy did, or the tug of war level where you only controlled your heroes during a huge battle, or that epic final battle in the night elf campaign.
my favorites were the truly near impossible ones in the expansion pack:
the 1st mission in the undead campaign where you had to defend 3 exits and prevent the peasants from escaping
and the last mission in that campaign where you had to open the 4 portals, damn that was the hardest battle in any video game i ever played.

 

[OneHP]

HL: We've got hostiles, trip-mines and radio squawks really built the tension before you get your first glimpse of the soldiers.

Deus Ex: Hong Kong, after all the intense combat it was great to be in what seemed like a real living city.

 

[Fire Daemon]

Assualt on the Control room in Halo: CE

The first time I played that mission I was blown away.

 

[portuga-man]

There's a level in max payne 2 where you control mona sax, and have to cover max payne with your sniper rifle. i don't know the name of it, but i remember this part in particular:

Mona: "on three"
Mona: "one, two, three"
Max: "And he's off!" (runs out of his hiding spot)
Mona: "The crowd goes wild..."

I played this game years ago, but that quote is still on my mind

Also, oot's inside the great deku tree, rainbow ride and tick tock clock both from mario64, and metal harbor from sonic advenure 2

 

[GenHellspawn]

The asylum level in Thief (forget which one)

Man, that place was creepy

 

[Takhisis]

The Two Worlds in Unreal Tounament.....CTF + Sniper Rifle at a high vantage point = 50+ GODLIKE Kills on Hard mode

 

[OneHP]

Assualt on the Control room in Halo: CE

The first time I played that mission I was blown away.

That mission and the one where you play backwards through it were by far my favorites in CE.

 

[Iron_will]

Portal's last level, gotta love that core-thingy that asks questions.

"Whats that? What is that? Ooh whats that? Is that a gun? Are you coming back?" soooo adorable.

 

[Red Rum]

The mission in Bully where Jimmy was riding on the back of a bicycle and he had to use his slingshot to snipe away his attackers.

 

[HizerKyte]

The atrium area in the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.quote]

1) Given that the whole game was gorgeous it's tricky... but I prefer the prison and the hall of learning to that one
2) The bonus campaign in WCIII: Frozen Throne with the Champion of the Horde; Rexxar
3) Plunge in UT:2004, and any other incarnations of three towers in low gravity in the series
4) And finally...

The Aslyum Grounds in Medievil. Anyone else remember that beauty?

 

[Anton P. Nym]

The level "Halo" in Halo 1, and in Halo 3. I just don't get that same sense of awe and majesty anywhere else. I also love the big "furball" between Hornets and Banshees in Halo 3's "Covenant" level.

Level 5 in RezHD, and the boss fight on Level 4. I literally shouted in delight the first time through each. (Though "fear is the mind-killer" does get a bit tired after a while... damned Bene Gesserit witches [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litany_against_Fear].)

"The Milkman Conspiracy" from Psychonauts. Made my brane hert guud. Also, "Goggalor". edited: er, I meant, "Lungfishopolis"...

The raid on Cydonia in X-Com.

There are probably many others, but I've run out of time to ponder them.

-- Steve

 

[shadow skill]

Level six in the first Tenchu game. (the one with the snow.)

 

[Sniper_Zegai]

"The Silent Cartographer" from Halo : Combat Evolved.

 

[TomNook]

The Alamo in RA2, good times...