10 Video Games With The Best Opening Sequences

The late-1990s and early 2000s were overrun with World War 2 shooters. One of the leading franchises at the time was EA’s Medal of Honor series, which blessed fans of the genre with a realistic, at least for its time, rendition of the Normandy beach landings.

Releasing less than four years after Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, which brutally depicted the same landings for the silver screen, Frontline opened with its depiction of the daring assault on the beaches of northern France in 1944.

Bullets fizzed past the player as they made their way onto the beach and explosions would resonate as bombs fell all around. Tasked with making their way up the vast expanse of sand along with fellow Allied soldiers, all the while coming under fire from machine gun encampments high up on the hill.

While the sequence certainly shows its age today, at the time this was a shining example of a video game exploring something where previously only movies had dared to go.

As EA now own the popular Battlefield series, it's unlikely they will revive the Medal of Honor games despite all of their previous success.