10 Brutal Video Game Opening Levels That GUARANTEED Game Over
6. Chapter 1-1 - Resident Evil 5
The Resident Evil games have certainly had a habit of getting down to business quickly, and Resident Evil 5 might offer up the most glaringly intense opening sequence of any game in the series to date.
RE5 opens in Africa with an outbreak of the Las Plagas parasite, forcing player character Chris Redfield and his logically-impaired A.I. teammate - if played solo, that is - Sheva Alomar fending off a seemingly endless fleet of the ferocious, infected Majini.
It's a tricky sequence because the game throws so, so many enemies at the player, at one point even within a terrifyingly confined shack.
That's before the Executioner Majini shows up - a gigantic, hulking beast of a man who can make short work of inattentive players.
Basically, you're just fending the enemies off until an invisible timer counts down and you're rescued, which for more casual Resident Evil fans in particular made for a frustratingly tough opening level.