10 Best Open World Games

Over two thousand words into the review and it doesn’t feel like we’ve scratched the surface of Grand Theft Auto V. This is a sprawling experience, offering countless activities ranging from practicing yoga to smuggling guns. Playing around in its virtual sandbox is enjoyable enough to fill five game’s worth of playtime, but ignoring all of the world’s amenities and solely playing the missions still puts countless other action games to shame. More still, it features arguably the best story of the series that’s greatly enhanced by the added dynamic of three contrasting protagonists. There’s multiple hyperbolic statements that we could pile on to convey the excellence protruding from nearly every facet of the game (like that one), but all that matters is this: Grand Theft Auto V is both a step forward for the franchise and an amalgamation of the best parts of its previous titles.


It was on our wishlist for game unveils during the Xbox E3 briefing and developer Double Helix Games made it true; Killer Instinct is coming exclusively to Xbox One as a launch title but with limited characters. So limited in fact, that purchasers only get one (Jago) to pick from and that's because it's free , with additional characters for sale individually. The downloadable title will however have a season's pass which will include all additional content. We don't yet know how much it co


Pieced together from Rockstar-released snippets and teasers of the GTA V collector's edition, one fan created this unofficial map of Los Santos - redesigned and bigger and better than its original debut in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas . Click thumbnail above to see full-size


The scene then leads into the iconic song "I’ll Make a Man Out of You ", where the image of the arrow and tower are backdropped against the glowing moon in the night sky. This shot is exactly what is depicted in Araga


Inside the Willamette Memorial Megaplex, head to the Stillhouse Diner in the Miami Boardwalk District. Once inside the diner, you will see an open briefcase on a table. Inside the briefcase, is simply a glowing lightb


As a video game (not a movie), Hasbro has an extraordinary opportunity to recreate a faithful strategy adaptation of the board game that occupied many of our childhoods. Instead, they seem to think that the FPS market needs more saturating, and that a compartmentalized (read: gimmicky) ship component will tide fans over. Hopefully they just gave off the wrong first impression, but I can see Battleship chalking up a lot of white pegs when it releases in


A week before E3, and more than halfway through its Kickstarter campaign to raise $1.35 million, Paul Caporicci, CEO and founder of Precursor Games, canceled the Kickstarter - which hadn't even crossed the 10% mark - and posted a message starting they're postponing the Kickstarter and will relaunch later with "new developments." We don't know the real reason behind the change, but part of the reasons was that they likely weren't going to meet the funding goal and wouldn't have raised any money this way. Part of the issue is the involvement of Denis Dyack and the resulting confusion of the studio's relationship to Silicon Knights, and the lack of clarity surrounding what the game would offer. It's going to relaunch with s lower funding goal at some point, but we don't know w


What if BioWare's original Baldur's Gate were 3D? Thanks to the BGR Team, a group of dedicated and talented developers, they entirety of Baldur's Gate has been remade as a mode for Neverwinter Nights 2 . The team began in 2006 and just finished recently. It can be downloaded he


Epic Games recently announced that they'll be releasing all of the maps from the Horde Command Pack, as well as two old school maps from the original Gears of War , as free DLC for Gears of War 3 later this month. This is great news for anyone who hadn't planned on purchasing the new add-on, but those who had already pre-purchased this content through the Season Pass should feel like they just got ripped


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


"It's too early to talk specifics, but definitely all the DLCs and updates will be free. Of course, we’ll see what the platform holders will allow — what we can do for free [on next-gen consoles]. I mean, there are different business models on consoles. From our standpoint, we’ll definitely do everything we can to deliver the same experience across all platfor


Red Dead Redemption takes everything people love about western movies and blends it with Grand Theft Auto V Rumors Theft Auto -style gameplay and storytelling. Red Dead Redemption delivers a compelling open world populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, and is punctuated by one of the best endings in gaming history . Considering how Rockstar hit it out of the park with its first attempt at an open world western, expectations are high for the followup, Red Dead Redemption 2 , which is expected to release in fall of 2