First impressions count for a lot, and that's as true in video games as it is in anything else. The opening moments of a game will crystallise the player's opinion moving forward, and in extreme cases ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We lead busy lives. We humans can no longer be expected to trawl through endless exposition, ...

Opening cinematics used to perform an important function in games: they showed us the vision. They invited us to form a beautifully-rendered mental image, based on the jumble of text and sprites we ...

Super Metroid had an amazing intro. Shocking for all kinds of reason, not least that Nintendo themselves had made was basically a homage to Aliens. It still works great today but I’ll go for another ...

We tend to associate video game intros with lavish, pre-rendered cinematic sequences. Something to help kickstart the story, set the tone. Which is fine, but there’s been a video game intro stuck in ...