Great gaming intros

ksl19

The Wipeout intros were very stylish
Gran Turismo 1 had class music.
Halo, with all the people blowing up around you.

Big Chief

Originally posted by shurl
Splinter Cell anyone?

yes should have put this into my list aswell.. good stuff for pointing that out

Red ALert 2.

Generals, I thought, could have been an excellent intro if they expanded on it.

savemejebus

actually thinking about it more, i think the intro to RE Nemesis is the best i can remember, just seeing the cops get destroyed by all dem zombies, way cool

rainbow kirby

Love the Wind Waker intro, its very simple but cool and i LOVE the music.
The SSBM intro is good too.

Kiith

actually, now that i think about i'd go with system shock. Shodan's voice in the intro is really bloody freaky. brilliant game.

User45701

Originally posted by utility_
Red ALert 2.

Generals, I thought, could have been an excellent intro if they expanded on it.

I am fond of the Ra2 intro but it is very unpopular by the masses because there is no way to skip it if you have just re-installed the game (many ods dont come with uninstalls so re-instaling the whole game is often necessary)

fixXxer

Mgs 2: sol
How can u not love the choir bit at the end? So epic i wanted to stand and salute.

FF8
The sword fighting, the flying over the fields.....it all set the tone perfectly. I really liked this game, apart from the whole time compression thing which was a bit vague.

The intro to return of te king is pretty good. I like how it drops u straight from movie and cuts directly into the game without a pause.

Creamy Goodness

Half-Life
FF VII
Hidden and Dangerous 2
Max Payne 1 & 2

User45701

Dominion wars had a nice long intro, full of action

po0k

Dunno if it was mentioned before (cba reading back), but Elite II: Frontier and Frontier: First Encounters had great and good intros respectively.

Gummy Panda

I have to say I'm very impressed with FFXI intro. Reminds me of the attack on Helm's Deep in LOTR.

I love seeing those little mages cast their spells in the intro.

There is some streaming footage here

[CrimsonGhost]

The intro to X-Com: Terror of the Deep. Very short, but totally captured the feel of the game, I felt anyway.

Civilian_Target

Half-Life

I got the game a month before it was released because it was bundled with my shiny new Voodoo Banshee card. Put it in my ulta-powerful PII 233 with a whopping 64mb of RAM.

Loaded up the game, and it looked and felt like you were there. There were real people and pretty graphics and proper lighting, and Q2's brown graphics were put to shame.

Compared to anything that went before, it was mindblowing.

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User45701

The HL intro is good but when you are completing HL for like the 6th time it will drive you insane

regeneration

Originally posted by User45701
The HL intro is good but when you are completing HL for like the 6th time it will drive you insane

Don't like the intro...?
Open up the console and type:
/map c0a0
If I recall correctly, that will load up the gantry area where the tram stops.

sparkite

chess "please choose black or white" legend!

Washout

one of my favorites has always been the video intro to Age of Empires...pure classic

User45701

Originally posted by regeneration
Don't like the intro...?
Open up the console and type:
/map c0a0
If I recall correctly, that will load up the gantry area where the tram stops.

Yep i only discoverd that a year or 2 ago when i was completing HL again, but thanx anyway cause i had forgotten it

orangerooster

Freespace one and two-at the time those battles looked utterly epic.
The Homeworld games intros are immaculatly presented.
Max Payne 1&2 also very slick.

My all time favourite is the intro for Baldurs Gate-Sarevok is just to damned cool.

Gonzo

Quake 2 (this amazing intro looks alot better on software mode for some reason)
Half-Life
Starfox (snes)
Max Payne 2
Unreal (the castle slowly rotating around and around, amazing at the time)

ixoy

Ohh I just remembered: Shadow of the Beast 2! C'mon, someone here must remember the Amiga Screen Gems pack? The ad on TV? That was so awesome [at the time] and took my breath away.

ykt0di9url7bc3

anything by Blizzard....

Klingon Academy....

Colony Wars and Colony Wars Vengence...

G-Police...

Deadwing

I loved shadow of the beast..but i could never defeat the last boss

Project zero had a great into..really creepy..and the black and white section really set a nice tone of unimaginable terror for the rest of the game

RobertFoster

"Paris in the fall, the last months of the year and the end of the millenium.

The city holds many memories for me, of cafés, of music, of love...and of death."

Broken Sword intro.

Don't blame me for draging up and old topic, blame weemcd

the_obsolete

Ooh there's so many!

GTA3
Quake 2
Resident Evil 1-4(I mean Code Veronica...just in case anybody missed that)
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2
Fighting Vipers
Last Bronx
FFVll & Vlll
Silent Hill
Zone Of The Enders
Enemy Zero (I know it's pretty much a carbon copy of Alien, but I still love it!)
Syndicate Wars...loved how they did it!
Max Payne
Blood Omen: Legacy Of Kain...his voice just creeped the crap outta me!
Dungeon Keeper was a bit on the funny side I thought