10 Video Games With The Best Opening Sequences

Some titles don’t require much in the way of a preamble and 2016’s reboot of Doom is certainly one of them. There is a story there and actually some excellent worldbuilding but this all mostly serves as a mechanism to give the player an excuse to massacre hordes of demons with some fast-paced gunplay.

Doom gets a gun into the hands of the player within seconds and the high-octane shooting never lets up. It helps that the general premise of the game is simple, as there is no need for a long, drawn-out tutorial. The game teaches the player to shoot at anything that moves and to do it as efficiently as possible before sending them off on their quest to eradicate the demonic scourge.

The opening sequence concludes with the Doom Slayer punching an intercom projecting the voice of Dr. Samuel Hayden, a scientist whose work is responsible for the current demonic invasion, before the game’s title is displayed on the screen to the sound of heavy metal music.

The title then fades and the music stops to the perfectly timed sound of Doom Slayer cocking his shotgun. Lovely stuff.