10 Seriously Underrated Video Game Intros That Deserve Another Look

When a video game places you in the role of Batman, you expect to be a badass incarnate. What you don’t expect is to hear Batman screaming in pain, see him tied to a chair in a cell, or to find that the villain who put him there knows his secret identity, and you certainly don’t expect that villain to be a psychiatrist named Hugo Strange.

And yet Arkham City does exactly this. Even though chances are you’d never heard of Strange before, in starting the game as they do Rocksteady quickly establish him as a cunning and dangerous opponent and, by association, render his as yet unexplained plan equally ominous.

The remainder of the intro does a fantastic job of restoring Bruce Wayne’s apex predator status, with him kicking the stuffing out of Penguin’s goons even while handcuffed, but it is the initial shock of seeing Batman in such a vulnerable position that really sets the tone, planting a lasting seed of doubt in the player’s mind and keeping the tension high all the way through to the game’s thrilling conclusion.