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Favourite Video Game Intros?


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You read it right - I'd like to know what everybody's favourite video game intro is! It doesn't matter which platform or whatever, ANY video game. As long as it has an intro. They can be rendered or CGI or whatever. The thing that plays before the game itself.

I'll go ahead and say Tekken 2, although there is an intro I like more I'll start out slow.

Just because the music is wonderful and everything introduces you to the characters quite nicely (except the unlockables). Doesn't tell you about the story, just the characters, you can't have everything I suppose!

So what's yours?

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Great choices there, Mr. Finest :cool:

As for me...

One of my favorite opening levels to any game ever.

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First one that comes to mind is one of the best, although I know of a few more I really love, I'll start with this too. This opening sequence just told you "this is going to be an amazing game" and it was. It sooo was.

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Mine would have to be from Super Street Fighter 4. The griddy look of the characters along with some good ol' techno make this one of my favorites.

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There is quite literally a plethora of wonderful video game intros out there, my favorites particularly come from the original Driver on PS1 as well as the Need For Speed series;

Need For Speed High Stakes;

Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2;

Driver; [Gets good at around 1:50]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ4IK42lIds

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First and foremost:

These are also favourites of mine:

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SoulBlade (aka SoulEdge in Japan) for the Arcades and Playstation One, the PSX/PS1/PSN version has one of my favourite songs, and intros, of all time.

Unfortunately due to the singer's strong accent the words are kinda hard to make out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDZZzsQlwOU

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Final Fantasy X's FMV introduction was badass, as was XII's.

Borderlands was another favorite of mine. Completely hilarious and just plain awesome.

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Borderlands. Cage The Elephant FTW. Can`t wait for #2!

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I think I'll throw in two more that I thought of;

Stuntman (PS2) - I love how this one switches tones from a silent movie type deal to something more modern and action-packed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N5zaJZFl4s

[And while this isn't quite a video game intro, it does serve as a prologue of sorts, introducing a player to a series of events;]

Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (PS2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FpgbiwnbeY

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@ Mr. Finest, I sent you a PM 'bout Kane & Lynch. Ch-check it out! Also, speaking of the intro to Conker's Bad Fur Day...

Look familiar?

And another contribution...

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In spite of how embarassingly cheesy it is, there's just something awesome about it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht-YYxVWgkk

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Nuff said.

And also, how could I forget to post this. This is one of my all-time favourites, just because Jim Cummings is the voice of the Terror Mask.

*WARNING* There is blood, so much blood.

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Goldeneye - haha. Ohh, video game intro's.. so many to choose from. I like a lot of Genesis intro's like Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets of Rage 2, etc.

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Here's another recent one; I can't quite get over how nice the animation is. :P

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This is somewhat of an intro. Starwars Battlefront II

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I have always liked the Crimson skies intro.

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Two of my favorites of all time would easily be, (Got a japanese version on accident)

And (I couldn't find an un-narrarated version so if anyone could, that'd be nice)

Pretty much all Mario RPG's/Chrono games always blew me away with intro's. There's a lot of others, but ask me when it's not 3 AM.

Also props to all who said FFX. "To Zanarkand" is honestly one of the most memorable tracks of that game.

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