10 Best Open World Games

Yes, you can place a body under your tires and Gta Vi Expectations start doing a burnout. Your mouth with hit the floor as you stare in horror (or fascination if you're that kind of a person) as blood starts spraying all over the pl

Chris Roberts is developing the spiritual success to Wing Commander and Freelancer with the record-breaking crowdfunded Star Citizen , Star Wars is coming back in a big way at Electronic Arts, CCP Games blew way the industry with EVE-VR at E3 2013, and these are only a few examples of the return of space sims. One other example is Interplay Entertainment Corporation's recent acquisition of the FreeSpace IP from now defunct publisher THQ and developer Volition. They managed to buy it for the shockingly low price of $7


The Witcher series is another that started as semi-open world, but didn't dive into the genre completely until its latest entry. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt tears down the restrictive barriers that kept the previous games from being fully open world, letting Geralt explore one of the largest open worlds in gaming history. What's even more impressive about The Witcher 3 's open world is that despite its immense size, the game still manages to have an absurd level of detail that's just not found in most tit


Wargaming is expanding its already vast player empire to consoles with the surprise unveil during Microsoft's Xbox E3 2013 Media Briefing that World of Tanks would be coming exclusively to the Xbox 360. That of course means that, when ready, World of Warplanes and World of Warships will follow suit and all three will surely make their way to the Xbox One eventually. Leading up to E3, Wargaming released the above cinematic trailer for World of Warplanes . Can it beat the impressive and similar free-to-play WWII online flight sim/shooter, War Thund

Another benefit to the multi-protagonist setup and also one of the biggest new features to mission portion of the game are heists. While the majority of missions are either driven by a single character or are like the aforementioned one, there’s a handful of heists sprinkled throughout. Heists are basically multi-tiered missions that contain multiple small missions to set them up and require an higher level of planning to correctly execute. The first heist in the game, for instance, concerns knocking off a high-end jewelry store. There are two methods available to tackle the job: quiet or loud (smart or dumb). Going in loud is what you’d imagine, simply rushing into the store with heavy artillery and running out with the merchandise. Going in quiet, however, requires more planning and stealth tactics. In a jewel heist, for instance, chemicals and an exterminator truck must be stolen. Using the exterminator gig as cover, you head up on the roof with a gas mask and uniform and drop some gas into the vents of the store. Meanwhile, the rest of the crew bursts into the store with similar outfits and cleans it out while the customers and clerks are unconscious. One great feature of these heists is that the crew itself must be individually selected. You’ll generally need a gunner, driver and hacker, who are selected via a pool of known associates and characters encountered throughout missions. These criminals vary in expertise, with those highly experienced demanding more of the cut. Going with a low experienced crew member means that more could go wrong (for example, having a bad driver could mean they get captured and lose whatever loot they were carrying), but the more they are used, the better they get with the same cut. Heists add a fantastic dynamic to the game and make the scope of the universe seem larger than ever.

A former two-bit criminal, Michael has retired into a witness protection program. Thanks to his previous life, he’s absolutely loaded and lives in a mansion with two kids and a wife. His kids are spoiled brats, with the son spending all day smoking pot and playing video games (no offensive, readers) and the daughter a fame-obsessed promiscuous teenager who will do anything to become a celebrity. His wife, on the other hand, resents him even though he gives her anything she could possibly want (including some surgical enhancements) and is having an affair with likely multiple suitors. Depressed and not challenged in his current country club life, Michael decides to team with Franklin for some excitement. Unfortunately, coming out of retirement made former partner and current psychopath, Trevor, take notice.


Breath of the Wild features an open world that makes exploration a pure pleasure, with a landscape riddled with treasures, enemies, hidden dungeons, and more. It also manages to sidestep one of the more frustrating aspects of open world games, letting Link climb virtually any surface he comes across instead of forcing him to walk around mountains and other large structu


Subscription models and pay walls just don't work anymore. Nearly every major triple-A MMO game has had to drop paid subscriptions and outside of World of Warcraft and EVE Online , publishers are now relying on free-to-play models supporting by premium services and microtransactions to find success. Every game from EverQuest and Star Wars: The Old Republic to Lord of the Rings Online and Star Trek Online have embraced the switch and most new games coming out, including some making the jump to PlayStation 4 (see: Warframe, PlanetSide 2 & DC Universe Online ), are launching with the model in mind. So it's no surprise that RIFT , by Trion Worlds, has also gone fully free-to-play as well with "no trials, no tricks, no tra