"Wow" moments in games?

By Elliot B.
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Elliot B.

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Just wondering what moments in games made you think 'wow'.

The only 'rule' is that you have to post an accompanying image (screenshot, artwork, anything) explaining the point that made you think 'wow' if possible (so don't go re-playing a huge game just to take a screenshot of a certain part of the last level :p).

EDIT: Two recently moments that come to my mind are in...

  • Hitman: Blood Money when you're at the festival are there are literally 100s of people on screen all moving independantly and not impacting game performance at all (although I imagine you'd need a decent system for that).
  • Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars when you're on a GDI level towards the end of the campaign in which you have to assist a few vehicles from the top of the map to the bottom. Graphically, it's stunning. Rain, lightning lighting effects, amount of units on screen, gameplay-tension etc. Oh, and the first time you see the superweapons and visual effects (heat haze etc.) are nice, too.

I would screenshot the both games, but there is no level select from what I can gather and I'll passed those levels now.

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The first time I fired up Half-Life 2 Lost Coast HDR demo and walked from an indoor hallway out into the sunlight and iris adjusting effect worked like a real eye and I was monetarily blinded by reflection and sunlight and then I adjusted. It was amazingly lifelike experience.

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Halo, in the "Two Betrayles" map, where there is the huge outdoor war going on with everybody, amazing, totally captured me.

Playing HL2 on the brand new computer for the first time and noticing how great games have gotten.

NFS:MW (360): When I pulled off the most amazing drift ever!!!!

Intro beach scene in Medal of Honour, the D-Day one. Felt like you were there, and so crazy with all the explosions and bodies being shot up, bullets flying everywhere, insane.

That's probably it.

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Normandy beach in Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault.

That was definitely one of the biggest wow moments for me too in the more recent past. The oldest wow moment I can remember was when I saw Mortal Kombat on the SNES back in the early 90s. Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES was stunning too when it came out.

The most recent wow moment I had in Resident Evil 4 on the GC when I encountered the first big boss "El Gigante". When I tried to hide in one of those huts he ripped out a tree and blew the hut away with one blow ... while I was in it. :o

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Playing Bioshock for the first time... More specific the intro to it...

Much like my first playthrough of Halo CE... to be specific the very last level where you have to drive to the spaceship. Ive never been so close to falling of my seat in tension... Ever.

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The ending of Zelda 64, just after you think you've defeated Ganon and fled the castle, only to see him pop up and Navi insisting she'll fight no matter what. That was sheer class and I don't think I've been so pumped in a single player game for a long time.

Multiplayer def has to be when I was in the first guild kills for Raganos and nef. The tension as the % of health on the boss goes down and the massive cheers on ventrilo afterwards are like no experience I've had in a game.

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