Oh god this is a hard choice. There are so many great menus in games I cant even think of one right now off the top of my head xD but I do agree I love the one in Evil Genius.

Red Alert 3's main menu..

I spent like 30 minutes to just staring at the screen, listening the music..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrXiKkSxSps


Edit. nevemind... Knee's failing here like a boss.

Heh, when I've seen it, it's actually reminded me of Evil Genius main menu quite a bit. Speaking of Red Alert, you've reminded me of installer of RA2. Now I want to make another topic about creative installers ... Shame we don't get those anymore.

I think the first game where I spent a lot of the time on the title screen was Hitman 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmslXhT3r1c
The epic music and agent 47's pose combined with those clouds... somehow it totally got me. In retrospect unspectacular, I know.

Blood Money's title screen was intriguing to say the least:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0_KWZ_Atbw
I mean, who didn't ask himself what the deal is with agent 47's funeral? I became even weirder with the camera angle changing as you progress through the campaign and your targets disappearing from the benches. And especially when the main theme kicked in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d82Jzezj8sk
The track totally blew my mind back then. Beautiful times when Jesper Kyd still had his own distinct style.

Then there was Hidden & Dangerous:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKDBs-ab8i8
Pure madness. Suddenly those big explosions and this crazy simple music. It drove me crazy in an awesome way. :D

Aaaaaand... Xenon 2 Megablast!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w-tiRnac2k
Pure coolness. :D

Remember Ecco the Dolphin's menu? The game starts up with you playing the dolphin. Swim left and you enter a password. Swim right and you start the game. Pretty neat, I thought.

I enjoy some action like in the most recent Star Wars strategy game (name not coming to me) -- it had a perpetual space battle going on.

But honestly, a static menu with just a little motion is my favorite. NOX has some eyes that poke open. I remember Dragon Age being very dramatic in its stillness and epicness at the same time. Neverwinter Nights has the swirling background misty stuff. I like those.

NOLF

Mafia.
Dat music... Dat music.

I loved Mafia 2's main menu just because I enjoy a pretty landscape. I enjoy staring at sceneries so this was something I enjoyed in Mafia 2. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGME6jCwqw0
Pure ripoff. :/

Xenon 2's main theme is Bomb the Bass' song Megablast, used with his permission. Megablast on the other hand is a legit cover version of Precinct 13's main theme - its full title is "Megablast (Hip Hop on Precinct 13)".
Satisfied? ;)

although i am having problems running the game - i really like Sacrifice menu - it sort of sucks u into the screen :)

Haha. Okay. Actually I was quite curious about that (i found the savage borrowing a bit weird).

There's also the issue of Extase using the soundtrack of Bunker Palace Hotel, but maybe both are just based on the same traditionnal bulgarian songs...

I didn't know either (by that I mean Extase nor Bunker Palace Hotel).

Another weird case was Kernkraft 400 being a rip-off of the track Stardust from C64 game Lazy Jones. Apparently the "producers" only paid the original composer (David Whittaker) after someone noticed the plagiarism. Dumb untalented assholes.

Impossible Creatures for that 30's jazzy backing song