What Open World Games Do You Just Roam Around In?

Last night, Tegan and I spent some time rolling over Orcs in Shadow of War with Bajo. And at one point, we had a chat about the best kind of open-world games: the ones where you don’t actually want to progress the story.

I’ve always found the best kind of open-world games are ones where I’m happy to just explore, rather than pushing forward to finish the game. The first Watch Dogs, for instance, was something where I couldn’t wait to finish the story. I hated the characters, hated the in-game rendition of Chicago, and didn’t want to be anywhere in the world.

The opposite, at least for me? Sleeping Dogs. Apart from having a cracker of a story for the genre, it was also fun just roaming around on a bike and getting into fist fights with everyone.

Another open world game where I more or less bumbled around in perpetuity was Just Cause 2 and 3. Those games are great for that: blowing shit up, slinging off planes, opening the wingsuit and going for a breezy flight off a cliff. The story is irrelevant – it’s just a vehicle for spawning targets to shoot at – and it’s loads of fun as a result.

What open worlds have you enjoyed messing around in?


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