Favourite loading screen?

What is everyone's favourite type of loading screen?

Do you like a simple picture of the level, a mission brief, a minigame, information about the world, stats, no loading at all, or something else.

I quite like ones that have relevance and usefulness. Where they might tell you some of the lore of the land.
Also, the ones in the latest FIFA games are pretty good. Just mask the loading with actual playing in the arena.

I might've made this a poll but I don't know how.

I like the Call of Duty loading screens. With a satellite map showing you where I'm going, briefing and sit-rep.Crimsader

Yea was about to say same thing. I also like it when it has tips since I was suprise at some stuff like at COD4 I didnt know if you could double tap the squre i think you can blow up clay more instead of having to change

Gran Turismo psp because it I like to see GT logo.

Gah. I forgot which game it was.. But there was this one loading screen that lets you play this little mini game while your game loads. Pretty cool.

FIFA 10, where I can actually do something while waiting.

Gah. I forgot which game it was.. But there was this one loading screen that lets you play this little mini game while your game loads. Pretty cool.

Riz_Cola

Okami, perhaps?

I love the old Guitar Hero loading screens. And the loading screen for Tekken 5's menu when you first boot the game up is awesome, you get to play Star Blade :P

Devil May Cry 3

I liked being able to juggle the 'Now Loading" text.

The first Assassins Creed had a good loading screen in my opinon.

Anything that's interactive (I think Fifa 2010 and and Bayonetta qualify as mega awesome.

Seriously, why the asterisks do Japanese developers not put interactive loading times in their long boring ass games with battle load times that take a hundred years to load, change screens, switch to menu screens, level up screens, and then finally the world frickin map.

FIFA 10, where I can actually do something while waiting.

Kaim91

Probably Fifa 10 as it keeps me occupied rather than falling asleep watching a loading bar. I also like the Fallout 3 loading screens as the images can be quite funny, and the tips shown on screen can be rather useful.

MX vs. ATV Reflex

mass effect 1 elevator rides!!!!

The only loading screens I recall are Star wars battlefront where it beeps while zooming into the map, and KOTOR where it tells you star wars trivia while taking sometimes up to four hours to load. It was THAT bad.

Rome total war with its quotes or maybe BF2 with its good music and mission information.

Rival Schools, an old game for the PS1, had character art for its loading screens. It made waiting for the game pleasant because the art was so good. Capcom needs to get cracking on a new Rival Schools.

I agree with everyone else: MGS4, Fifa 10, Bayonetta, Assassin's Creed. Also DiRT's loading screens are cool because they show you cool stats and you can move it around and zoom in and out and all that good stuff.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Suikoden

I like katamari series "adding cows" "generating gravity" "forming mountains"

Some of my favorite loading screens I've seen are those from some of the Medal of Honor games.