11 Powerful Video Game Opening Sequences That Gave You Chills

5. Descending Into Rapture - Bioshock

Everything about the original Bioshock feels like it was built to make a lasting impact. The mysterious allusive opening, the character designs, the embedded questions analysing our fascination with technology and where it can take us - you know from the second your plane hits the water, that this wasn't going to be anything close to a standard FPS.

Being involved in a fiery plane crash is bad enough, but then having no idea who you are or what the intimidating (yet inviting) lighthouse in front of you is really for - that's what draws you in and flutters the preternatural sense of "Where the f**k am I?!".

Entering the lighthouse, taking those first few steps, hopping in the bathysphere and slowly going way, way underwater only to discover the forgotten city of Rapture - it's a full-blown assault on the senses, one that lets you play straight into the arms of the waiting character, Atlas, and all the mind-blowing madness that follows...