11 best open world games

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Wherever you go, there will be plenty to do and see.

1. Forza Horizon 4

Platforms: PC, Xbox One.

Despite the fact that Forza Horizon 4 is racing, the world in the game deserves special attention. Every week the seasons change in it, and this affects the passability of the tracks and the behavior of cars on them.

The picture is complemented by the fact that it is an online game. You can interact with other players, but at the same time they cannot prevent you, for example, push you off the road. But there are network events that change every hour.

There are also jump spots randomly scattered across the map. You can do crazy stunts there.

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2. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One.

It was with the release of the third part that The Witcher series gained real success. This was facilitated by the emergence of an incredibly beautiful world full of dangers and interesting tasks.

The protagonist of the project, the Witcher Geralt, can move around the map on foot or on a horse, explore forests, fields and caves, enter other people's houses and collect herbs for alchemy. Most of the world is reminiscent of medieval Europe, but you can board a ship and sail to the cold Skellige Islands.

While traveling, the protagonist will stumble upon strange creatures, gangs of bandits or people who need help. And if you do not hesitate to show curiosity and go to untrodden paths, then you can come across something especially valuable.

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3. Grand Theft Auto V

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One.

The GTA V map is a replica of a healthy chunk of Los Angeles, refined as much as possible. You will drive along endless roads by car or motorcycle, climb high mountains on foot, cut through the air in an airplane or helicopter, and even explore the depths of the ocean in a bathyscaphe.

If you get tired of scurrying back and forth or doing exciting tasks, go to the tennis court, golf course or cinema. GTA V has a ton of things to do, and that's why it's impossible to tear yourself away from the game.

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4. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One.

The hardened fighter Venom Snake has a lot of important tasks, and he will have to complete them in the territories of Afghanistan and Angola. You can navigate them on foot, by horse or by car.

The area is full of heavily guarded villages, roadblocks and buildings. The guards are very vigilant, intelligent and adapt to your behavior. For example, if you often kill enemies with headshots, they will soon start wearing helmets.

How to play Metal Gear Solid V, everyone chooses for himself. You can become a quiet liquidator that no one ever notices, or you can just take the most powerful cannon and start destroying everything in your path. True, the first way of passing is still encouraged.

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5. Minecraft

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii U, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, Windows Phone.

You have a giant map at your disposal. It all consists of blocks, and therein lies a huge creative potential: almost any thing or mechanism can be made from many different materials.

You can build a copy of any real building or construct your own building or even an entire city. You are free to build a small house on the mountain and live in peace, growing vegetables and deforestation. Or you can go deep underground, looking for treasures and fighting skeletons and zombies.

This is just a fraction of what you can do in Minecraft. The main constraint is your imagination.

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6. Fallout 4

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One.

Explore Boston, destroyed by nuclear war. Wastelands are full of various consequences of radioactive contamination: from poisonous swamps to terrible monsters. No less dangerous are marauders scurrying here and there in search of prey.

You will find a mass of dilapidated buildings in all their retro-futuristic glory. In them you can stumble upon interesting and useful things: weapons, supplies, and so on. But do not expect that all this will be easy for you: in addition to enemies, there are computers and locks that need to be broken.

And the incentive to explore this dangerous world comes from interesting plot and side quests.

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7. Middle-earth: Shadow of War

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One.

In this game you will find yourself in the very heart of gloomy Mordor - a place known to every lover of Tolkien and "The Lord of the Rings". You will chop off the heads of more than one hundred orcs, saddle a dog-like Karagor and climb to your heart's content through the dark gorges of Sauron's abode.

A distinctive feature of the game is the "Nemesis" system. Thanks to her, all orcs are unique characters with their own habits, as well as strengths and weaknesses. They try to kill you every now and then in order to get promoted in their caste. But you can also use them for your own purposes. For example, sending the enemy to the camp as spies.

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8. Ghost Recon: Wildlands

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One.

In this shooter, as part of a special squad, you find yourself in Bolivia, where you need to destroy the drug cartel that has seized power in the region. How to complete this important task is up to you.

Ghost Recon: Wildlands is revealed when you play it with friends. This is a tactical fighter, so each soldier in the squad has its own role. Someone, for example, can act as a sniper, and someone can try to sneak into an enemy settlement unnoticed and eliminate as many enemies as possible before it is spotted.

The open world allows you to get close to the enemy from any side. The variability of the passage grows even more thanks to the abundance of devices such as reconnaissance drones, as well as vehicles and weapons.

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9. Far Cry 5

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One.

Far Cry 5 is one of the best examples of games where you can go wherever you want and do whatever you want. The project has a truly huge map, full of exciting landscapes, aggressive animals and dangerous cult settlements. You can move around by cars, helicopters, airplanes, boats and ATVs.

Imagine that you are peacefully catching fish in the river, when suddenly an enemy plane sweeps over your head and falls somewhere nearby. You go to check the scene, but find that the victims have already come to the rescue, and begin a furious firefight. Here you dealt with the enemies, using an extensive arsenal, but then for no apparent reason a turkey jumps out from behind a tree and pecks you to death.

Such situations occur one after another in Far Cry 5. Something is constantly happening in the game, so it won't get tired of it very soon.

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10. Yakuza 0

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4.

Prequel to a series of Japanese militants, about which the inhabitants of Russia for a long time knew almost nothing. Today, Yakuza games are appearing on more and more platforms, so their popularity is growing.

The project tells vivid stories from the lives of two heroes who are associated with the criminal world of Japan. The game is notable for the fact that it has a lot of exciting and often strange activities.

The city is full of discos, karaoke bars, underground casinos and even erotic video salons. Each establishment has its own mini-games: you can arrange car races, dance, call girls and invite them out on a date.

However, do not forget that Yakuza 0 is also a cool action game with a varied and unusual combat system.

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11. Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One.

Last year's Assassin's Creed Origins was a revelation in terms of what the games in the series could be. This year, the developers took their best ideas and put them into a new project - Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

The action takes place in Ancient Greece, and you play as a mercenary who is trying to find his family. This is the only thing where the project limits you. With whom to be friends and with whom to fight, which tasks to go through, and which to ignore, it's up to you.

The area of available territories is almost twice the size of Egypt in Origins. In addition, you can not only navigate by land, but also swim between the islands, participating in intense sea battles.

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