11 Powerful Video Game Opening Sequences That Gave You Chills

10. Storming Normandy Beach - Medal Of Honor: Frontline

Across the 2000s there was a poignant move towards video games aping film in terms of creating controllable cinematic sequences. It would culminate in the 'half on-rails, half-quicktime events' of Call of Duty and Battlefield, but Medal of Honor used to rule the roost, especially with Frontline.

Touted in the years before release as the "next evolution" for gaming and coming with graphics that were at the time, genuinely mind-blowing, firing up Frontline's D-Day opening level was life-defining. We showed it to our relatives as an example of how far games had come, we compared it to real-world footage and even Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan as testament to why games were the future.

Games as we knew them literally couldn't get any better, but oh, how wrong we were. Medal of Honor was already one hell of a reputable franchise, but with Frontline landing on the PS2, it wrote itself into the history books in style.