Boss Battles

Subjective, I’ll concede, but another favorite aspect of the series. The boss confrontations are distinctive, enjoyable and frequently thoroughly unhinged. Chasing a tank with hand grenades? Gray Fox in the lab, featuring a huge geek pissing himself? Hulking man-beast Vulcan Raven casually sporting a gun traditionally mounted on an airplane’s ass? Fatman’s rollerskates-and-bombs shenanigans? Flamethrowing astronaut crazies? Perhaps one of gaming’s most memorable menageries, all told. Particularly with regards to the first title to bear the Solid moniker, each antagonist was lent a significant personality. A welcome foil to the ubiquitous guards themselves, who sport all the character of a stubborn skidmark. With the opponent/body count expanded to obscene levels in Revengeance, will this fine juxtaposition and invention remain?

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