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I'm sure more will pop up at most horrible moments, but the one that sticks out the most to me as an awesome moment in gaming right now is the opening to the first real SAS mission of Call of Duty 4. You're sitting in the Blackhawk with your squad, through the stormy weather you can see the ship ploughing through the rough seas, captain Price casually smokes his cigar and then..

LOCK AND LOAD.

Soap (your character) pulls his gasmask down, inhales sharply, cocks his MP5 and screws on a silencer while Price takes a last drag of his cigar, flicks it away and pulls down his own gasmask. You then fast rope onto the bridge, take out the guards there and work your way down the crew quarters, silently killing all along the way. As you sweep the main deck the rest of the squad joins in and Price gives out clipped commands that ooze with a certain quality: Fan out, four metre spread.

Small touches such as these make games awesome for me.

So what are your awesome gaming moments?

Cinematic moments of awesome in gaming, eh?

Killzone 2, the bridge level.
More specifically, halfway through when you're told to come up to support an ISA unit pushing through the shantytown under the bridge--and they get pulped by a Helghast antiaircraft gun.
Which you then are told to capture, and use against the Helghast mounting a counteroffensive under the bridge.

Following that, the Cruiser level, the AA gun bit.

And following THAT, the AC-130 Spectre level from COD4

"Rescued at last, thank God you're here!"

"Don't shoot, I'm with the science team!"

...Followed quickly by a squad of marines gunning down a pair of Black Mesa scientists.

I nearly crapped my pants.

A lot of the sweetest moments in both Half-Life and Half-Life 2 are accompanied by awesome electronic music that automatically gets you pumped. I'm thinking of the music in Half-Life 1 after one of the early run-ins with the marines, as you're going up the elevator trying to get topside.

Another would be in Half-Life 2, when you run into Combine Civil Protection in the train tunnel while trying to get to the canals in City 17.

Also, the Striders. Need I say more?

The whole thing with Aeris and Sephiroth in Final Fantasy VII was a pretty awesome sequence (and very sad).

It's not an in-game moment, but the Mechwarrior 2 intro still gets me pretty pumped. "Sit tight Bravo Three, I've got visual..."


I know there's more. I'll try to think of them.

"KA-BOOM. I can see lot's of little pieces there."

Priceless.

I personally liked near the end of Max Payne when you're working your way up the final building and the elevator doors open up. If you wait a bit, you can over hear this great discussion between two guards:

"Man, I love that new action movie. Especially those scenes where the protagonist jumps in the air and time and everything just slows down around them....What do they call that again?"

"Bullet time."

"Yeah....Bullet time...."

Followed immediately by you jumping through the elevator and turning on Bullet Time to gun them down.

I like a lot of the quick scenes in Army of Two. They seem to add a lot of flavor to the game.

That's all I can think of right now. Everything else coming to mind is an opening movie to a 'Mech-styled game.

"Oh, that's one for the highlight reels", BrookM

Ah, so many.

The ending of God of War II. Woah, huge twist, Athena dies and Zeus escapes! Awesome and sad moment, but then Kratos goes all tough cookies and Athena dies in sorrow. Then he goes back in time and brings the Titans to Olympus. What a guy.

The final run of Halo: Combat Evolved, when you're escaping the Pillar of Autumn in a warthog with the ship exploding around you, then flying away from Halo in a fighter as it explodes dramatically and smashes itself to pieces.

The 'Battle for the Amerigo' cutscene in the Zerg campaign of Starcraft. Very Aliens-esque and it scared the gak out of me when I first watched it (I was eight).

The Human campaign's ending cutscene in Warcraft III. Arthas marches into his father's throne room, all calm with all the citizens of the city throwing rose petals down and the bells tolling joyfully, and then Arthas just marches up to the king and impales him through the head with Frostmourne. Best moment of that game, except...

The Orc campaign's ending cutscene, where Thrall and the cured Grom Hellscream face off against the Pit Lord Mannoroth. Long story short, Thrall gets his arse kicked, Grom goes flying rodent gak insane, Mannoroth gets his arse kicked and explodes. Grom dies. Poor bloke. Blizzard may be unoriginal, but they know how to tell a story.

And my personal favourite, the 'Mephisto's Jungle' cutscene from Diablo II. Showdown between the Archangel Tyrael and the Diablo-possessed hero of Tristram, and then that slow Marius goes and frees Baal/Tal Rasha. Tyrael gets screwed over and Marius runs with Baal's soulstone.

Cheese Elemental wrote:And my personal favourite, the 'Mephisto's Jungle' cutscene from Diablo II. Showdown between the Archangel Tyrael and the Diablo-possessed hero of Tristram, and then that slow Marius goes and frees Baal/Tal Rasha. Tyrael gets screwed over and Marius runs with Baal's soulstone.

"Stop! The beast contained herein shall not be set free! Not even by you..."


Yeah, that's a pretty great cinematic.

When I saw this: was overjoyed to see Square Soft make a decent CG movie without the character look like Squall / Rinoa / Tidus / Rinoa / Cloud clones.

In saints row 2 when the main chracter jumps from the heli then guns vogal to death and shoots him out the window. then when there flying out you see gat shooting the cops and the last line is uttered
pierce: whadda we do know
boss: this is our city, whatever the feth we want to do.

Devastation when your character is looking down the barrels of four miniguns, only to be saved by and exploding rat!
Rubbish graphics but still funny.

@Hordini: Hell yeah HL1 and HL2 are full of these moments and the best part is that it's all ingame. My favourite part in HL2 is escaping on the airboat and suddenly you hear that familiar track blast through the speakers from HL1.

Going with the red alert 2, yuris revenge, and RA 3 intros here.

Every single conversation between Mike Torreno and CJ in GTA san andreas is hysterical. For example when CJ points a gun at him he goes into
"Hey come on put that down your embarresing yourself, here wanna hear some great news. Answer the phone (which rings the second he says this)
Also when he's reading a history book he makes some hysterical comments.
"Look at this, its so funny. It says that Hittler killed himself and we dropped the Atomic bomb on Japan."

Here's the Diablo II cutscene from earlier:



A cool and creepy Starcraft cinematic:



The ending of Starcraft:



The cutscene introducing the Flood in Halo: Combat Evolved:



And an epic cutscene from Dawn of War:

Def. Pvt. Jenkins' video from Halo 1. Also, when Miranda Keyes and Sgt. Johnson died in Halo 3.

Ask, and I shall answer.

You guys probably like this:

Mortal Kombat will never die. Controversy for the win.

I think Sergeant Johnson dying was pretty epic. I was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO for about an hour.

Oh, and conquering all of Europe in Empire Total War. Hmmm. It had no cutscene but gunning down the final enemy Line was so satisfying.

sA

Ending in mass effect was EPIC!!! Lol I was like no I died then I was Yeah! I didn't died (and the part were they blow up soverien. And also turning your back on the council or protecting em.

Vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKIbuNajk6U&feature=related

also quick question how do you make the vids show up?

this entire video

I found this pretty awesome when I first saw it.

Only the intro film. First minutes of game were 'meh', apart from how dark some of the themes were. The criminal down the alleyway was asking your sister to.. take up his offer. No need to use your imaginations.

sA

Fable 2 is in the end about as great as a B-movie. It has potential but horrible game mechanics and mediocre things make it MEH.


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I remember playing space hulk, and when you first meet an gene stealer.... Man now thats a shitt your pants moment. Or when you see the nuclear detonation in CoD 4, now thats awesomness

From the Last Remnant.

Emma Honeywell v The Conqueror

Side Note: By 5:40 the fight is essentially over the rest is a sad / mourn scene with the characters. Sorry for the extra but this was the highest quality of the fight I was able to find.




I am a fan of many games and cinematics but rarely do I find a final boss who can keep his mouth shut and kick peoples ass. He talks little but when he does ( Chris Sabat recognize him as piccalo / vegeta's voice DBZ ) you listen.

The woman fought valiantly but lost. My favorite part was the strength he displayed never faded. Usually you see a strong person rip a wall off a building and then when he attacks the hero the strength behind each hit is easily blocked....wtf?

In halo 2 I killed the boss brute with one bullet left.

I liked the intro for Battlefield Vietnam as well as the intro to the classic Red Alert with the industrial techno as a tank smashes through a wall.

Yeah HL has lots to mention as does CoD4 (nuke scene was pretty intense).

First time I played the 1st AvP was intense with the Fox intro set just like the Aliens movies. Nothing like running around in the dark hearing a motion tracker beep and suddenly the walls are crawling.