10 Greatest Second Levels In Video Games
9. Crew Expendable - Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty 4 remains one of the most iconic and important FPS games of all time, and it wasted no time at all in demonstrating its gorgeously cinematic potential.
After a short opening training level ("F.N.G."), players are thrown headlong into a deliriously atmospheric mission in which your SAS squad attempts to recover a suspected nuclear device from an Estonian freighter.
Presentationally this thing is absolutely beautiful, delivering a level of immersion quite unlike anything the military shooter had ever seen before at this point.
Though it's a relatively on-rails affair for the most part, "Crew Expendable" truly made the player feel like a badass SAS operator. That climactic dash from the sinking ship is just the pulse-racing start the game needed.