The Nightmare, Max Payne (2001)
When hard-boiled misery-guts Max Payne isn't standing about in the rain monologuing to himself, he's having jarring surrealist nightmares in which he tip-toes across a blood trail while his murdered child cries in the background. In writer Sam Lake's script this was no doubt abundant with figurative symbolism, but as a level in a video game it's an exasperating pain in the arsehole, because if you stray from the trail by even a nanopixel, you fall to your death. Brilliant!
