The 12 Best Video Game Openings Of All Time

Complex - I have a soft spot for the opening to the original Mass Effect, just because I felt the text introduction was well written and matched brilliantly to the score.

[SpaceSquirrel]

The Uncharted 2 opening was spectacular.

[CommonSense]

it was okay....although the second time you have to do it all over again in chapter 15 was pretty annoying.

personally, i think the person that made this list just doesn't go back far enough. Halo: CE had a great opening. How about the opening for goldeneye? getting the info, then running for your life and jumping off the dam.

i'll tell you a game with a great opening...Resident Evil. or Amnesia. there are so many. just seems like the list is limited to the last generation or so.

Another good example is the way he mentioned Half Life 2...yeah Half Life 2 is one of the best games of all time (if not the best), but Half Life 1 had an even more memorable opening. I will give you God of War 3 though...that opening was great...in fact, it's the best part of the whole game.

[vishant101]

i was wondering does the opening race of forza 3 count cause that was pretty Awesome opening imo what better way to open a racing game then a race and zelda game generally tend to have great openings

[rabidpancakeburglar]

Pretty damn good list but I wouldn't have put FFIV ahead of most of those openings.

[l2dusk]

Blasphemy! Terra's Theme alone beat all the other intros :p

[Pozzle]

Especially considering how amazing many of the later FF openings were.

Say what you want about FFVIII and FFX, but they had two of the most epic games openings ever, imo.

[Cheeseknight28]

God of War III might should've been higher seeing how you could argue that the beginning of the game was the game's best. Fighting Poseidon was just amazingly epic. I'd put it at #3, if I made no other revisions to this list.

[HeavenlySnipes]

has the most epic usage of the start button ever.

[ReservoirDog316]

Haha, seriously. It does.

[beastgamer]

oh what a nice town, less press start.
HOLY SH*T
people are jumping, shit is flying, bright white lights wtf!

haha that was an amazing start

[nnotdead]

haha forgot about that. loving 2 by the way.

[DeFySMOK3]

I forgot all about the MGS4 opening. "War has changed."

[CommonSense]

"war never changes"

[CoLD FiRE]

"Or does it?"

[thor]

The slogan from fallout is pointing out that war is basically all the same, just a petty dispute leading to a needless great loss of life.

In MGS4 war has become the largest economy, propping up everything else. It's no longer about nations but PMCs. However later in the game you find that it's really no different and was just part of the petty dispute between Zero and Big Boss.

[CommonSense]

werd

[Bolts]

War has changed sounds like a Fallout rip off.

[caseh]

Correct me if im wrong, but MGS4 was released before Fallout. :)

[Bolts]

Released before Fallout 3? Yes. Released before Fallout, no.

"War never change" is the catch phrase of every Fallout intro.

[Ducky]

DevilMayCry and Onimusha3 had some pretty sick openings.

[CobraKai]

Onimusha 3 was jaw dropping.

[Relientk77]

The Uncharted 2 opening is sick.

I love most of the Final Fantasy openings

[darkdoom3000]

Yeah, especially loved 8 and 10's openinings, probably due to the accoiated music.

[Kon]

Mass Effect 2. I've never experienced such opening. A true masterpiece. Watching Shepard die in the space was something that i won't forget so soon

@mezzo

your fault, nobody asked you to come here on a Video game openings article, you arew asking for spoilers

[-Mezzo-]

WTF man, who suggested you to give out spoilers, i still haven't played the game.

I doubt it's True.

[ReservoirDog316]

Haha, just play the demo to get an idea about ME2's opening scene.

[CoLD FiRE]

While I agree with ME2 having a great opening. It kinda gets annoying when you're starting another playthrough and you can't skip the long opening.

[Breadisgood]

No Onimusha 3....I am disappoint.

[CobraKai]

For me all MGS titles had spectacular openings. From Solid Snake bungie jumping off the George Washington bridge in MGS2 to Naked Snake making the first official H.A.L.O jump, I was floored each time.

[Chnswdchldrn]

Fuck yea point insertion!

[user8397144]

God of War 3! GTA Vice City, Uncharted 2, God of War 2!
Mass Effect 2 wasn't that good, it was ok but not that good.

[DrRichtofen]

I remember getting goose bumps the first time I saw Killzone 2's intro
portal 2 also had a really good opening

[KiWi1711]

Though I don't disagree with FF:VI being on the list, I can't help but feel Uncharted, or MGS4 should've taken the top spot.

Those were much more powerful pieces to me.

[rlm41]

No Half Life 1?? That games train ride at the start was probably the best introduction for a game I've seen, it set up the atmosphere perfectly.

[outwar6010]

onimusha 3 had the best opening of ALL time

[WhiteLightning]

Final Fantasy 6....

Great game I love it but come on FF8 had the best opening :) Just one of the many great things about the game.