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right
we're neck-deep into December which
means that Texas winter has finally
begun that means half the trees still
think it's spring you think about
putting on a jacket on any given day and
if you're like me you grew up in Texas
and always long frame winter wonderland
like what you see in video games
hey I'm never sick for screwattack's top
ten snow ones number ten I'm not a huge
fan of FPS games but call of duty modern
warfare twos campaign was just some good
dumb fun like the rest of em dub deuce
cliffhanger is a big action set piece
that you get to play through and it's
all the more awesome for it it's a
stealth mission that goes south and your
partner soap MacTavish gets surrounded
by enemy Russians that's when you hit
the Michael Bay button and go hop on a
pop-up hop it up put it up on a pop-up
and let these snowmobile dudes to them
and you murder them and you take their
snowmobiles and you still go bah boppa
like a hundred miles an hour well it
still puts a genuine smile on my face
and your flooring it well while you're
going downhill you're still flooring it
you swerve around the trees it's kind of
Star Wars but it's snow and it's
downhill and then you jump that insanely
huge gorge at the bottom well it's only
number 10 on our list but I'm already
thinking I'm gonna need to go back and
replay that mission a pit-stop dead
number 9
most great snow levels are all about the
cheery holiday time side of winter and
then there's fender onna drifts metroid
primes harsh icy environment is a quiet
frozen wasteland with nothing to keep
you company but that lonely piano
soundtrack oh that and all the babies
she gots you brutally blast apart
speaking of which remember that one time
Sam is committed infanticide right in
front of the mother she got and then
orphan to the babies that were left that
was colder than whatever temperature
this planets at but hey you get a cool
wave beam out of it number eight animal
Crossing's not exactly the most exciting
game in the world but I still get a
little giddy when I know that winter is
on the way is this a level does this
count as a world technically yeah
whatever games are so nonlinear these
days and I'm just gonna say it counts
and why not it's easily the best time of
the year in Animal Crossing anyway
there's something so peaceful about
seeing that first snowfall in your town
which is especially pleasant for me
because you know Texas and with that
white blanket covering your hood comes
the winter fishing tournament Christmas
toy day and the countdown to the new
year all season long you can also build
up snowmen to get rare furniture or just
give sentience to the most cruelly
designed creature since the blobfish
yeah it's gotta hurt just being that
thing you know winter and Animal
Crossing is like all of the best parts
of the season without having to leave
your toasty living room to enjoy it and
now that I'm talking about it I meet
animal crossing on my switch like
yesterday number seven what even is a
Mario game since 1988 without a good old
snow level heck Mario 64 gave us two of
them yeah I know there's snowman's land
but the big snowman's in a hold water is
in a hold the bully's in a hole the
entire level is just a huge snowy a hole
but cool cool Mountain is a delight from
the peak you start out on all the way
down to the cliff you sacrifice the baby
penguin at I come on we all did it and
that's not even mentioning the other
penguin you can race for a cool star and
later rematch for a bigger challenge
but if you want a real objective cool
cool mountain is perfect for the green
demon challenge you get the extra life
to chase you and you've got to get all
eight red coins and the star before it
catches you it ain't easy but it's worth
revisiting the old snowy peak form and
also to throw more baby penguins to
their do number six
who knew that Star Wars The Empire
Strikes Back Battle of Hoth could not
only be a great action scene but a top
ten worthy level two shadows of the
Empire's
opening level was one of the first times
we actually got to participate in that
famous Star Wars battle gunning down 80s
T's in your snow speeder was fun and all
but nothing compared to the thrill of
wrapping up the 8080 walkers with your
tow cable for those who play that back
in 1996 shadows of the Empire's Battle
of Hoth stands out it's one of the most
memorable first levels ever but it's a
shame the rest of the game didn't follow
suit god I freaking hate that speeder
bike level car number five I don't know
about you but I think that some of the
best modern mario kart tracks are the
segmented ones that don't do laps
you know like Mario Kart 7 Rainbow Road
the the the woohoo island tracks and
relevant for this list are you car dates
found Wario no that's not a command
that's the name of one of the best
tracks in the entire game it starts off
by dumping 12 go karts out of the back
of a helicopter onto an icy Alpine slope
that takes you to a cave system
ski-resort the woods and more and did
you ever notice how the music times out
perfectly with every transition to a new
section of the track I'm telling you the
only way you'll see a more beautiful
sight than this schmuck is by heading to
Mount Wario for yourself no that's still
not a command unless you want it to be
number four now I know that the idea of
having to do puzzles with an AI
character sounds annoying but uncharted
2's heart of ice chapter knocks it out
of the park probably because you barely
have to be with the AI partner at all
you'll find no shortage of cool ancient
puzzles and set pieces in this series
but the underground network of oversized
switches and machinery was awe-inspiring
nonetheless I mean yeah none of it's
actually real but the sense of adventure
you get exploring this mechanical wonder
with Tenzin is unmatched on this list
but things turned into a gun fight for
your lives at the end when these diamond
Yeti things show up and I know Nathan's
got impossibly strong fingers that let
him climb all the stuff that he does but
do the guy's fingers ever get cold or at
least tired number three am I alone in
thinking that The Legend of Zelda
Twilight Princess was a great looking
game for the time I still kind of wish
they'd go for another dark looking Zelda
someday but I know it's not an unpopular
opinion to say that snow-peak ruins was
one of the highlights of this game this
isn't just a great snow level it's one
of the best Zelda dungeons ever made the
first time I followed a Yeti down that
hill into his house I didn't even
realize it was an actual dungeon to feed
his wife who gives you a map and you're
like oh are we doing that I like just
about every other dungeon and Zelda
history snow-peak ruins doesn't give you
hearts you can only refill your health
with yeto soup even cooler snow-peak
ruins clean to tells its own story the
nice mrs. Getty who gave you the map
earlier tells you that she's not been
feeling well lately and it's all because
of that corruptive mirror shard that
you're after in fact by the end of the
dungeon the shard crux her so much that
she ends
becoming a fun boss for you to free at
the end in more ways than one snow-peak
ruins is the coolest Zelda dungeon I've
ever played haha
winter jokes number two as I'm recording
this top 10 there's like 25 million of
you out there with switches and not
nearly enough of you have donkey kong
country tropical freeze it is one of the
best modern platformers one of my
favorite platformers period and it's
also got an incredibly beautiful snow
level cliffside slide is such a gorgeous
and epic level it's the final
silhouetted stage in the game when DK
scales the blizzard coated mountain of
his home island structures fall apart
and dinosaur bones crumble beneath you
but with that killer score by david wise
you feel like a king coming back to take
his rightful place on the throne
and god help whatever decides to get in
your way besides being a terrific piece
of eye and ear candy it's one of those
levels that i've loved so much that i
don't even know how many times I've
replayed it just for fun it's number 1
as far as I'm concerned
winter is nature's way of building up to
the best holiday of the year
Groundhog Day I got enough punch time he
fells gonna see a shadow or not second
best winter holiday Christmas hands-down
one of the few snow levels that went
all-in on one of my favorite holidays
also just so happens to be from one of
my favorite games banjo kazooie's freeze
easy peek is pure magic from the moment
you warp in
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you decorate a Christmas tree yet
climate science snowman you deliver
presents to a neglectful poor there's
kids and then beat him twice in a sled
race which is the exact thing he ditched
his kids to be the best at this bear is
such a Woo's and I think that music by
grant kirkhope would instantly bring
anyone back to a time of childlike
wonder even if they didn't grow up with
banjo this music is so good that I'm
gonna risk a copyright claim I'm playing
a second sample all right that's it
that's all you getting we don't want to
incur the wrath of the YouTube police to
this very day no matter what time of
year it may be freezes epeak instantly
puts me into that winter Christmassy
spirit and what a great level for our
secret number 11 let's go back to
Windows 3.1 for everybody's favorite I'm
board game ski free nobody knows where
this mountain takes place but you can
set trees on fire knock down other
skiers and die at the hands of a Yeti
if only childhood me knew that you could
press F on the keyboard outrun those
things save me a lot of stress
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