The first God of Warfeatured a duel between the 7-foot-tall protagonist, Kratos, and a massive Hydra. Giant creatures are a staple of the God of War series, and there are other Titans in this game, which depicts their mythological war with the Greek gods. When God of War III comes out on Tuesday, March 16, for the PlayStation 3, gaming will have its own Burj Khalifa-Kronos, the 1600-foot-tall boss. In games like 2005's Shadows of the Colossus and 2008's Resistance 2, bosses measure in the hundreds of feet, with increasingly realistic in-game physics to govern their virtual mass. Remember King Koopa, the princess-kidnapping, turtle-like despot of Super Mario Bros? He might have topped out at 12 or 13 feet on a good day. When they're the enemy, these digital heirs to the Krakens and Leviathans of classic mythology are called bosses. In the video-game world, the most impressive architecture is the living, breathing kind vast monsters that dwarf your on-screen protagonist. It has been launched into space and threatens to blot out the sun. For size-conscious architects, the gauntlet hasn't been thrown. At 2717 feet it towers above the competition-it's more than two and a half times the size of the Chrysler tower, and while the previous top five highest buildings were all within a couple of hundred feet of each other, the 160-story Burj Khalifa beats the old world-record-holder, the Taipei 101, by some 900 feet. When the Burj Khalifa was completed earlier this year in Dubai, it became more than just the tallest building in the world.

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