10 Most Replayable Opening Sequences In Video Game History

2. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty

Most people that had a PS2 in its early days will fondly recall sneaking around a tanker as Solid Snake, taking soldiers hostage and channeling their inner-sadist by seeing how many bullets they can take before they die in a bloody heap on the floor. MGS2's Tanker mission has one basic advantage over the rest of the game: it stars Solid Snake. That's not to say the game's main protagonist Raiden is bad (even if he is a bit of a whiny man-child), but he pales in comparison to the only guy that can manage to remain cool while having a codename that sounds like a euphemism for an erection. Thanks to Snake being front-and-centre, MGS2 feels most like a sequel to its predecessor in its opening. It's here where the game's many new gameplay mechanics (hanging, first-person aiming, peeking around corners, storing bodies in lockers etc.) are experienced first. The tanker was a perfect playground for stealthy shenanigans, whether that meant hiding in a locker full of posters of strangely attractive asian women, or shooting fire extinguishers in guards faces just to see what would happen.