"Breath of the Wild is undoubtedly the best open-world game I have ever played when I am playing it as an open-world game."
"'Tchia' is dubbed a tropical open world adventure, allowing you to explore a colorful sandbox world with magic and charm."
"Paris is the Mona Lisa of open-world cities."
"With open world, open-ended gameplay serving as a shining new direction for the future of this beloved franchise."
"Open world is the enemy of storytelling, multiplayer is the arch-villain."
"Open world games can be very good; they can have systems that force you to engage with the world in a cool and interesting way."
"Sleeping Dogs was one of the first games that I got all the achievements in, and that is one of the best open-world games you could ever play."
"This game is pretty damn awesome. It's quite literally everything that I love in an open world action RPG."
"The new open world felt vast and expansive, the possibilities truly endless."
"With Redfall, we take an exciting step forward, building a lovingly detailed open world."
"Gothic 3 had huge potential for its time, its open world was one of the most impressive ever made, being both huge in size and rich in detail."
"It's got an all-new universe with vast in-depth lore, an open world setup that gives players the ability to go wherever they please, whenever they want, on horseback."
"Elden Ring is going to offer the broadest, most open world of any Souls game."
"Elden Ring's open world is a seismic shift for the Souls style of game."
"What kind of game is Halo Infinite? It's the most open and adventure-filled Halo game ever."
"Horizon 4 is probably the most fun you can have in the act of open-world racing since, well, Horizon 3."
"Horizon 4 is the best open-world racing game we've had since Horizon 3."
"Open world games are great because you can do anything, go anywhere, and if the mood takes you ramp a motorbike off it."
"An open world game where we see the pokemon in the wild and we throw balls in real time."
"Game design, open world game design in particular, is a complex thing filled with numerous pitfalls."
"What followed was one of the most immersive open world experiences."
"Stormville Castle is probably the most open dungeon in the entire game."
"Play it however you want... that's what I love about Elden Ring, there's so many options to make your own fun."
"An entirely open world with no load times at all."
"The open world is smaller than Witcher 3's but denser and more vertical."
"The devs even go as far as saying that this will be the next evolution of open world RPGs."
"Hogwarts Legacy will be narratively driven and it will feature an open world atmosphere where you're not confined to the castle walls..."
"Sleeping Dogs seemed to be a diamond in the rough when it came to open world action games."
"Daggerfall held the Guinness world record for largest seamless world available to a player in a land-based game."
"Majora's Mask isn't really about the dungeons, it's more about its worlds and its characters."
"Immersion, a quality that I personally feel is paramount to a decent game, comes very easy to the open world survival format."
"Elden Ring truly feels like the combination of every past FromSoft game since Demon Souls and they managed to make it all fit within the framework of an open world setting."
"It does feel like a really cohesive open-world here..."
"Being able to climb practically anything and having the glider available to you open near infinite possibilities of finding your own way through the world."
"A nearly perfect genre-defining game that allows you to go wherever, do whatever, and play however you want."
"Everything from shooting to exploring to building, there's no one way to play the game."
"Red Dead 2 is best in class open world environment design."
"What was magical about Breath of the Wild was definitely the exploration."
"Exploring it feels like Elden Ring has suddenly regressed from a brilliant open-world adventure to a wasteland where you spend more time traversing than exploring."
"Breath of the Wild... Walking out of that first cave and looking out at the world... That's Death Mountain, I can walk there from here."
"It feels important to me, that there’s this open world, all these things you can do."
"The awesome new wild area opens up within the first two hours, enclosed by steep cliffs and peppered with groves of trees, lakes, and tiny islands."
"This demo shows off just a small section of the open and expansive world we've crafted to deliver an epic Master Chief experience."
"An open-world stealth assassin game is [ __ ] hilarious and always fun to play."
"Yeah, it's like there were a lot of free movement open world games that people were trying to do."
"Breath of the Wild lets you play however you want, setting your own pace."
"The Legend of Zelda created one of the earliest open-world experiences."
"Breath of the Wild trusts players to find their own fun."
"Live your life the way you choose in a loving handcrafted open world."
"Red Dead Redemption 2 is the next installment to one of the best single-player games ever and from what's been shown officially and also leaked this is an experience that could change open world games as we know it."
"Odyssey's world doesn't restrict itself... there's a bunch of different things you can do."
"Breath of the Wild" lets you do things your own way.
"GTA 5" makes you feel like you're in a living, breathing world.
"The world is rich and you can find shelter, homesteads, camps, villages and cities."
"They just built a good feeling ARPG, they made it open world and MMO light shared World which I love both of those things."
"Open worlds are fantastic offering countless hours of enjoyment to inquisitive explorers who were rewarded for going off the beaten path."
"Hogwarts Legacy is not going to be a game that holds you back. You're going to kick off the game by creating your own character, choosing your house, but shortly thereafter the map will fully open up to you."
"The zone in Stalker 2 is one of the biggest seamless open worlds to date."
"It's a beautiful open world that has many many secrets."
"Open worlds are getting more and more stagnant, they can be executed so well that it feels good even though there are inherent downsides."
"The open world isn't there to service some kind of overarching or branching narratives, it's to create a big ass map that the developers can litter with tons of activities to keep players busy and keep them grinding."
"Gargoyles benefited from an excellent voice cast."
"The world design... mash up the best parts of Breath of the Wild and Assassin's Creed Odyssey."
"They really stuck to the rules of what it takes because this is their first open world game."
"It's open like I was on the Northwestern Mountain I could see the northeastern City the southern Border Town before the desert area like it was crazy."
"Sable is one of the finest examples of a true open world that's ever been made."
"Stay tuned for more Cyberpunk 2077 and open-world gaming goodness."
"Welcome to the next generation of open-world adventure."
"I like open world games with a lot of beautiful scenery and nature going on."
"Breath of the Wild's world encourages an unusually large amount of experimentation, with no two player experiences alike."
"Scarlet and violet: the real deal open world Pokemon experience."
"Seeing characters in the open world just makes my heart leap and soar."
"The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild eschewed the semi-linear borderline predictable path of the 3D Zelda games before it in favor of a bold, crazy new approach."
"This is a very, very impressive looking open-world game."
"Chronicles of Valyria is an upcoming open-world MMORPG that seems to be trying to rethink the way MMOs are designed."
"Bethesda's latest almost finished masterpiece is a fantastical, boundaryless playground where logic takes a backseat to sheer wonder."
"It's an open world, yes, but one that doesn't hold your hand too much and never left me bored."
"The largest Fallout world in the history of the series is at your disposal."
"It's a fine-tuned concept I like to call open world linearity."
"There could be endless possibilities for this game."
"The game lives to be open world. To remove the open world removes a core component from the experience."
"Overall, I believe Ghost of Tsushima has perfected the open world formula."
"Nintendo really revitalize open world enough for me to be interested again and yes it turns out yes very much yes."
"A fast-paced first-person shooter combined with a large open world and it works."
"Assassin's Creed 2 set the bar high with both its story and gameplay, crafting a milestone open world game."
"Just because we have defeated the ender dragon does not mean that we are finished in this world."
"Fallout New Vegas: a buggy masterpiece filled with amazing stories, great side missions, and an absolute heap of bugs."
"Dying Light 2 offers up one of the most compelling gameplay loops I've ever experienced in an open world game."
"Routing in this game is super fun because it's so open."
"Huge news: Lucasfilm Games and Ubisoft collaborating on a new story-driven open-world Star Wars game."
"This new take on the Forza series saw it going from being constrained to a race track and instead decided to let players street race and explore around an open world."
"Australia is easily the best setting for this type of game."
"Batman: Arkham City took everything that made the first game so great and applied it to a bigger and more open world."
"Making an open world horror game is an enormous undertaking."
"Dune Awakening: a brand new open world survival MMO."
"I like the idea of a slower paced fantasy focused open world MMO version of what they've done with Warframe."
"The 2001 launch of Grand Theft Auto 3 similarly shifted popular culture, birthing the open world genre whose potential knows no limits."
"Elden Ring seamlessly integrates open-world elements."
"The open world remains engaging throughout the playthrough."
"Do you like exploring vast open worlds, traveling from one end to another with no loading screens, running around discovering new interesting locations and landmarks?"
"A full open world where we can explore as we please."
"This is dark souls but a different open world."
"Diablo 4 is being called an open-world action RPG with a non-linear campaign."
"The introduction of a true seamless interconnected open world."
"Having a world you can interact with is a key part of a good open world experience."
"Breath of the Wild felt like a revelation when it came out in 2017, not just for the Zelda series, but for the entire genre of open world games."
"Simpsons Hit and Run delivered on the potential seen in Road Rage, featuring a fully open-world Springfield."
"Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction absolutely nailed the idea of going anywhere and doing anything as the Hulk."
"The reality is that this may be the best Pokemon game in terms of its open-ended structure near Limitless convenience."
"Night City is probably the most living breathing open world that I've played in a video game."
"The variety of locales and scenery is vibrant and filled with life. It's the most living breathing world open world game I've ever played."
"A big open World Star Wars game, that's nuts!"
"The open world validates the dive into cyberpunk's side content."
"Horizon 2 was in many ways the perfect evolution of the first game. The world was almost three times as big, tuning had made its return, and the dynamic weather system added a new layer of immersion."
"There are some rather strong Pokemon out there... you can access the wild area from very early on in the game."
"The best small open worlds aren't simply measured in how few square miles they take up, but how dense and lived-in the world actually feels."
"It's just a really unusual location and one of our favorite open world cities."
"The game doesn't reprimand you or anything for doing anything wrong because there's pretty much no wrong way to do anything in the game."
"The best open world that I've played where it felt good to explore... Elden Ring for sure."
"Gotham Knights is an open-world action RPG set in the most dynamic and interactive Gotham City yet."
"Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga" ambitiously included every mainline "Star Wars" film and also decided to give them a bunch of huge open worlds to run around in and or use vehicles in.
"Not every game needs to be some massive open world."
"Yakuza 6 brings dense detail of Shenmue's style open-world with a more modern type of game."
"I know Rockstar Games is known for some linear game design but that's where they really excel in when it comes to these well-crafted open world experiences."
"The PC versions of the Bethesda open-world games are just fantastic."
"I think Zelda NX is the tentpole launch title, open world and hopefully amazing."
"PvP is a big aspect of this game as well, and one thing worth mentioning is that you can PvP anywhere in the game world."
"The game's map size is roughly 100 square miles large."
"GTA 5 does everything so well, it has an excellent story, it's a shooter, you can drive around in an open world, and it has excellent characters."
"This will be a story-driven open-world game."
"Exploration is vital for an open world video game."
"It hooks you in with the idea of an isometric open world survival game, but it's just laborious fetch quests."
"I think what makes GTA GTA is the open world and mayhem."
"Halo Infinite might just pull off an open world reboot rebirth. The grappling hook changes everything."
"It's a really big shared world that's filled with players doing all kinds of things that you can just run into, have fun with, and then separate and go back to your own thing."
"Starfield, the latest open-world game from Bethesda."
"Crimson Desert, from a visual standpoint, is absolutely staggering."
"The open world lacks variety and things to do."
"Horizon 5 has the largest, most diverse open world setting of any Forza game to date."
"We want our world to be big and open with no artificial corridors."
"It's the biggest open world we've ever built... Hi Mexico!"
"There is simply nothing like it. This is true open-world stealth that is unrivaled by any game or series in its genre."
"Black Desert is an open world sandbox MMORPG. There are tons of things to do."
"The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild launched the Nintendo Switch. An amazing Zelda game, an amazing open-world game, and an amazing launch title."
"Open world shooters can be the holy grail of shooters if done right all that room to roam freedom to tackle objectives using your wits playing."
"It's treating them like multiple open worlds."
"The world of Horizon Zero Dawn is maybe the only thing I would call perfect in any game this generation."
"Horizon Zero Dawn trusts the player, offering true player agency and a vast suite of tools to figure things out."
"Horizon Zero Dawn: a game that gets the open-world formula so very, very right."
"I'm just so blown away by how beautiful it looks. The open world seems so detailed and there's so many things to do."
"The only issues I have with Ghost of Tsushima's open world design is that it needs a little bit of refinement and it needs more just more of what it's already doing so so well."
"Nintendo ensures there's a current piece of hardware for you to play their classic games."
"The Pathless: Running around a beautiful open world, solving puzzles."
"Best open world game ever made, just saying."
"The open world alone just adds so much replayability."
"A lot of people really enjoying this open world epic from sucker punch."
"AC3 has great activities that justify exploring its world."
"It's set in a more real world, it's War torn 19th century Japan and it is dubbed as an open world action RPG."
"Spider-Man offers an open-world New York City experience with parkour traversal and a new storyline exploring both Peter Parker and Spider-Man."
"Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild features an expansive open-world environment with advanced physics and new gameplay elements."
"Red Dead Redemption 2 promises an epic tale set in America's unforgiving heartland, with a vast world and a new online multiplayer experience."
"The open world PvP was by far the most rare yet addicting part of vanilla."
"Easily among the best open-world games I've ever played."
"Elden Ring is an open world game where you have an entirely free world to farm with players who can arrive at bosses dungeons and enemies in thousands of different states of power and orders."
"You're now completely free to do anything you want, main quest, side quests, anything, anywhere."
"A mix of linear first story and open world for exploration."
"The immense scale of these open world levels is actually one of the best parts of Sonic Frontiers."
"The series is known for its massive sandbox worlds filled with a large assortment of vehicles to pilot, weapons to shoot, and a seemingly unlimited number of things to blow up."
"Side-quests... the most important factor in forming an immersive and convincing open-world."
"Star Sand offers an open world full of danger, vast environments, and mysterious happenings."
"Forza Horizon 4 runs at 4K 60 in this stunning open world."
"Capcom Vancouver was able to have zero load times within the game and have a full open world."
"A big world full of things to do, that's wonderful."
"Open world Gotham game with four unique heroes to play as... sounds pretty good!"
"There's no skirting around this next point: an open world it may now be, but the fact is Elden Ring is mechanically still closest in its DNA to Dark Souls."
"This is a world that is rich in depth and detail, all designed to be explored on horseback or on foot."
"I think this is actually the kind of thing that could really help a lot of those open-world RPG games as well."
"I've been avoiding this game for a while because I was under the impression that this was just a sandbox game and there wasn't much of a goal to anything."
"Mad Max turned out to be a great open world game in its own right."
"If you can piss six feet in the air straight up and not get wet, you get no down payment!"
"A seamless world within Pokemon Switch, one that has little to no loading screens."
"Over a decade since its release, Fallout New Vegas remains one of the best examples of player freedom in an open-world RPG."
"I would love a Grand Theft Auto-style open world Halloween game."
"An open world where your journey is your own."
"The way to play this game is to not turn it into Ubisoft's map icon soup."
"All of this is explorable, like just this on its own could be enough for an open-world game."
"This game is a true sandbox RPG, like Solaš or Kenshi, where you are dropped into a wide procedurally generated open world and you're just some guy, and you can do whatever you want inside that world."
"Vampire: Semi-open world, emphasis on NPCs, branching storylines. Can murder anyone in district, stiff character models but attention to detail."
"Embrace the sandbox aspect of this game and just enjoy it."
"An open world that actually wants to be explored."
"Gaming in 2020 is all about open-world sandboxes where I can play however I want to play."
"I can already tell that people are gonna love this game... giant open worlds, anime graphics, nice art style..."
"We needed to develop a streaming engine in order to be able to have this very rich open world."
"This game has everything you would expect in an open world action RPG."
"Metro Exodus basically flirts in the no man's land between an open world game and a mission based game, a bit like Gears 5 now I come to think about it. Only unlike Gears 5 I would highly recommend Metro Exodus because it's vastly more engaging."
"If you like giant open world doing games with some cracking subplots and some brilliant story writing then this is hundreds of hours of busy work entertainment and a lot of road rash based mayhem."
"Here's an open world game that plays competently."
"The Witcher 3 has a very large open-world element to it, it's really done nicely on the Switch."
"The entire setup of chapter 3 works overtime to justify the open world levels we're exploring."
"Red Dead Redemption 2 delivers one of the most fantastic open worlds that I've experienced."