Best video game levels of all time thread

[DeumReaper]

I remember that part too; wasn't that the internet level where the Web was represented as a Vegas-style light city?

[exp(x)]

DeumReaper said:

I remember that part too; wasn't that the internet level where the Web was represented as a Vegas-style light city?

Pretty much, yeah. I loved how there were so many different layers to the "sky" moving in different directions.

[Psyrus]

In no particular order:

Doom - E2M4, E2M6, E3M7
Doom 64 - Dark Citadel, Unholy Temple
SMB3 - all of world 7
Sonic 3 - Hydrocity Zone, Marble Garden Zone
Sonic & Knuckles - Lava Reef Zone
Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Fire Temple, Shadow Temple (these were tough to decide)
Zelda: Majora's Mask - Great Bay Temple

[Job]

Pretty much all of Super Castlevania IV comes to mind. I rather liked the asylum level in Pain Killer. If I had to list all of my fave/"best" video game levels of all time, this would be an insanely long post.

Also, I did like Watch Your Step and some of the human levels in Doom 64. Spiral was good too.

[Tango]

Epyo said:

and um, the 2 music levels, Planet Sonata I believe, in Ristar were funderful.

My gosh, I forgot about that game. Those levels or the water levels were awesome.
Oh yeah, and the levels in Vectorman and Vectorman 2 were fantastic.

[caco_killer]

-Super Metroid: Any level. I thought they had a dark, creepy, atmosphere.

-Metroid Prime 2: Hydrodynamo Station, for the same reasons as Super Metroid's levels.

-Perfect Dark: The first level on Perfect Agent difficulty. I love how you have to sneak around to avoid alerting guards, and the lobby shootout at the end was awesome.

-Doom 64: Even Simpler on Watch Me Die! difficulty. This level is so intense. You have to move constantly, or else you die in seconds.

[Janderson]

Not in order :
Sonic 2 - End Bosses.

Sonic (and knuckles) 3 - Lava Zone.

MGS - Fisticuffs with Liquid on metal gear roof.

MGS2 - Tanker on European Extreme.

MGS3 - The End's sniper battle. If there's a game that has a better sniper battle I wanna hear of it.

Doom3 - The suspence based levels.

Doom - E1M8.

Trolls - Toy land.

James Pond 2 Robocod - the food based levels.

WoW - Anything in the undead areas.

[Planky]

The winter level in spy hunter

[dmdr]

That level in Evilution - 'Stronghold' I believe it was called - which just had the zombies and imps.

Wholesale chaingun slaughter - great fun.

[Job]

I said:

Pretty much all of Super Castlevania IV comes to mind. I rather liked the asylum level in Pain Killer. If I had to list all of my fave/"best" video game levels of all time, this would be an insanely long post.

Also, I did like Watch Your Step and some of the human levels in Doom 64. Spiral was good too.

I forgot to mention that a good number of Nightmare Creatures levels were very good. I preferred the ones that took place in Autumn and during the rain. Though I really liked them all - very ambient.

[leileilol]

MENACING!!! from lemmings

[Skeletor]

i liked barrels 'o fun.

and in icewind dale, i had lots of fun clearing out the lizardfolk cave.

[Sporku]

Doom related level design awesomeness:
Doom - E1M7 (Computer Station)
Doom 2 - MAP29 (The Living End)
Plutonia - MAP16 (The Omen)
Evilution - MAP22 (Habitat (haha, just kidding. all of Evilution sucks))
PSX Doom - Twilight Descends
Doom 64 - Blood Keep
Doom 3 - Hell
Doom 3 Resurrection of Evil - DeltaX

Other games with awesome level design:
Super Metroid
Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime 2
Metal Slug 3
(...can't think of any more off the top of my head. I'll probably add more later)

The Most Horrid Level Design in a (popular) Video Game award goes to Halo, for using more copy/paste than I've seen in any other game.

[Use]

exp(x) said:

There was this one level in Tron 2.0 that was so beautiful, I had to stop and just stare at the screen. I don't remember the name, but it was when you first get to the internet in order to find a compiler.

Ooo I remember that one, cause it had the same effect on me!

[Piezo]

E2M5 of Blood. The house was very atmospheric.

[jallamann]

C&C: That GDI mission where you start with two mammoths in the upper left corner.
C&C Red Alert: A Path Beyond
Diablo II: Diablo's cathedral
Doom: E1M4
Doom II: Map29
Doom 3: Hell (just like everybody else)
Goldeneye 007: Surface
Half-Life 2: Nova Prospekt
Super Mario 64: Little Big World or whatever it's called
TES4: Oblivion: Beyond the first oblivion gate outside Kvatch.
Tomb Raider II: The Venice levels
World of Warcraft: Upper Blackrock Spire