There was this Mech simulator for the old Xbox, called Steel Battalion, it was insanely hardcore.
First, to play the game, you need to buy this gigantic controller which consists of a two-piece unit that has two joysticks, a throttle, one analog thumb pad, a radio dial, some switches, more than 30 buttons (that light up), and three foot pedals. The controller and the game together cost over 200$. It takes forever to learn how to use it.
When you start the game, it get's even worse. After starting the mech through a complicated process, you go into battle against other mechs. When your mech get's destroyed, you must quickly eject, or else your pilot will die, and the game will delete all your savegames under the pilot's name. I'm not joking. This is true.
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/action/steelbattalion/index.html?tag=result;title;2
No games are more hardcore than this. It's impossible. It can't happen. Unless it's Steel Battalion 2. Any other way, it doesn't exist.
Warfighter3000
I actually own a Steel Battalion set with the blue-button controller and pedals, original game, and Line of Contact, but I just didn't think of bringing it up. Come to think of it, Line of Contact is one of the most hardcore games out there. The community is small, but they're quite skilled, and while they're certainly not bad people by any stretch personality-wise (don't expect the immaturity you'd find in games like Counter-Strike and Halo), they will show you no mercy in the heat of battle. It got to the point where I had to quit playing because I got so frustrated and thus went psycho because I have bad frustration tolerance skills. I've thought about giving it another chance, but I haven't bothered to set up the Xbox to do so.
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