The Best Video Game Beginnings and Openin Sequences

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• The Best Video Game Beginnings and Openin Sequences
• Medal of Honor: Frontline – like Saving Private Ryan
• BioShock – Underwater world with a touch of decadence
• Mass Effect 2 – Biggest earthquake? Death
• Uncharted 2: Among Thieves – Getting on the wrong train
• The Last of Us – Idyll to apocalypse in 15 mins
• Nier: Automata – a masterpiece that surprises everyone
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – whale and unicorn burn in the sky
• Final Fantasy VII – a bombastic start
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed – yellow subtitles always promise an "epic" introduction

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed – yellow subtitles always promise an "epic" introduction

The beginning of The Force Unleashed is a great scenario for a movie.

Is there a more epic beginning than the yellow credits announcing the Star Wars storyline to the sound of John Williams' music? And what if you add to that star destroyers, the Empire's fleet landing on the Wookiee planet Kashyyyk, and the opportunity to take on the role of Darth Vader himself from the very beginning of the game? Wielding a lightsaber and the Force, clenching throats from a distance, we traverse the nooks and crannies of Kashyyyk in search of Jedi knight Kento Mark.

Regardless of one's sympathies for the conflicting sides in the saga, we must, willy-nilly, come to terms with the dark side and decimate the Wookiees along the way. The encounter with the Jedi knight ends in his defeat, but Vader unexpectedly confronts a several-year-old boy – Mark's son. Seeing the little one seize the sword using the Force, the black-helmeted lord massacres his entourage, saving the boy's life, and kidnaps him. It's a shame we didn't get to see this story in one of the movies, because it's material for an intriguing and epic story, right from the start.

1. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed in our encyclopedia