12 Greatest Opening Video Game Sequences Since 2000

7. Medal Of Honor: Frontline

Another of the firsts for the industry, back from a time when Medal of Honor was the go-to war-franchise of choice, before Call of Duty snuck up behind with its giant production budget and almost-overnight managed to take its place. Back in 2002 game developers was just starting to gain access to mass-produced technology that could actualise their wildest interactive dreams, and for the series' big jump to the shiny new Playstation 2, EA pulled out all the stops to make sure it went down not just in history, precisely because of it. Taking an event as harrowing yet memorable as the D-Day landings and turning it 'into a game' - a term that back then didn't anywhere near the same level of acceptability or credence as now - meant the nearest comparison would be Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan's intro; itself a brutally frank portrayal of the horrors of war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjN50OJDVxI Luckily the spruced-up graphics and mix of controllable/cutscene-aspects treat the event with the weight and historical accuracy it deserved. Even though these days the graphics haven't held up very well - the remastered version from 2010 above is still a bit spotty - the very idea of taking a scene like this and reconstructing it in a game was revolutionary.