up.. hard as hell..
honestly, I was actually wondering if it was humanly possible to beat it.. I got... quite a bit of the way through it before I modified the hell out of it to be able to cheat...
it just got WAY too hard... and I don't like being frustrated

even with the cheats I used, it was tough
(before you ask about cheats - you gotta patch the software, burn it to a dvd-r, run it with a modchip.. pain in the ass)