Games with the best intros?

[Owain Taggart]

I bought Rustler recently, which is a top-down medieval GTA-like game, and booted it up today for the first time and I'm greeted with this. And I'm like, damn, a live-action intro!? Sweet! It's gotta be one of my favourite game intros in a long time. Which got me thinking, what games do you consider have the best intros?

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[Oddish]

Fallout 3's "Vault Childhood" sequence, featuring you at birth, age one, age ten, and age sixteen, and interweaving character customization in with it.

Also, the intro for the original "The Last of Us" is an absolute gut-punch. I think it's one of two times a video game had made me cry, the other one being "There Will Come Soft Rains" in the aforementioned Fallout 3.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

I thought the Darth Vader opener on Kashyyyk in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was bad ASS

 

[FPAlpha]

Blizzard was one of the prime candidates for most awesome Intros

 

[XCV330]

Bioshock infinite dark screen opening:
Booker, are you afraid of God?
No, but I'm afraid of you.

Final Fantasy X's intro:
"Listen to my story. This may be our last chance."

The entire Texas opening sequence in The Last of Us.

Skyrim: "Hey you, you're finally awake."

Uncharted 2: That opening train scene.. damn that game was near-perfect

Super Mario Brothers: Those first seven notes, and then it's on (but not like donkey kong)