The ten largest open world online game maps of all time
Whereas open-world video games aren’t the be-all and end-all of recent triple-A video video games anymore, there’s nonetheless one thing nice a couple of huge world which you could discover to your coronary heart’s content material, stuffed with actions, challenges, and random encounters to maintain you busy for hours on finish.
After all, greater doesn’t all the time imply higher. Video games like Elden Ring, The Witcher 3, and Breath of the Wild aren’t large enough to even scratch the underside finish of this listing, regardless of being among the greatest sandbox video games ever made. Nonetheless, there’s a terrific thrill of standing on the high of a mountain, looking on the never-ending vista earlier than you, and realizing which you could discover each inch of it.
We’ve put this listing collectively of the largest open world video games to see the boundaries of what video video games can supply in the intervening time. Be aware, we’re not counting procedurally generated worlds right here. No Man’s Sky and Minecraft are theoretically infinite in dimension, however that’s as a result of the worlds are fully decided by advanced algorithms fairly than guide design work.
This life like army simulator is a recreation that a lot of its participant base takes extraordinarily significantly. The island of Altis wants to offer a wide range of attention-grabbing tactical eventualities for squads to take part in, so it’s no shock that it resulted in such a large map. There are built-up cities, marshlands, jungle, and nearly every thing in between for all of your mil-sim wants.
Whereas it’s potential that 2022’s Xenoblade Chronicles 3 truly has a barely greater world than this recreation, we don’t have any concrete data on its dimension, so the Wii U-exclusive Xenoblade X nonetheless takes the crown. As you’ll be exploring the world of Mira partly with the sport’s large mechs, there wanted to be loads of terrain so that you can fly over.
When your core gameplay is “go very quick”, you want loads of highway to go quick on. Burnout Paradise took this to the acute just a little, with the town of Paradise having a seemingly countless collection of winding roads, with occasions that you can begin at nearly each intersection within the metropolis. Regardless of that, the sport nonetheless manages to provide you a way of familiarity with the map, as every race ends in one in all a small handful of areas.
It’s a recreation all about strolling from place to put, avoiding hostile terrain, so quantity was very a lot the secret when creating Dying Stranding’s world. The world is purposely left fairly empty, which may make it a little bit of a drag to discover, however hey, all we’re worrying about right here is amount.
A recreation that has been principally forgotten by historical past due to GTA’s dominance, True Crime: Streets of LA is lots like GTA 3, which was launched two years prior. The principle distinction is that you just play as a cop, fairly than a legal. Staying throughout the legislation is clearly much less enjoyable, even should you do have a large model of LA to mess around in.
The wonderful thing about Simply Trigger 4’s huge world is that the entire level is so that you can blow it up. The Simply Trigger video games are among the greatest for merely messing about and making your individual enjoyable in an enormous lovely world, and people worlds simply maintain getting greater. Plus, with the wingsuit letting you primarily fly wherever you need, everytime you need, all this terrain makes traversal really feel nice.
MMOs naturally have fairly large maps, though they’re typically chopped up and segmented, which in our books, disqualifies them. Asheron’s Name managed to do it correctly although, stretched out at an estimated 500 sq. miles. There are even some that declare the world was as large as 800 sq. miles, however we’re taking the extra conservative estimate. Whereas this recreation, sadly, shut down in 2016, it ought to nonetheless be remembered to at the present time.
Closing Fantasy XV is just a little unusual as a result of, regardless of having this big world, it by no means actually feels prefer it – to not point out that midway by the story you fully abandon it till the postgame. We might gripe in regards to the little issues on this recreation all day, however one optimistic factor that may be mentioned is that the world is totally lovely, with vibrant colours and unimaginable websites in all places you look.
Auroa in Ghost Recon Breakpoint has a map designed fairly just like Arma 3, solely a lot greater and stuffed with all the standard Ubisoft trimmings to maintain you occupied. It’s the sort of map that you just’ll by no means actually know all of, forcing you to review the terrain for every mission to formulate profitable plans.
The Crew and its sequel determined to suit all the USA into its recreation world (Alaska and Hawaii however), which was no small endeavor. Nonetheless, the outcomes are fairly spectacular. Whereas sure areas have been shrunk into non-existence, the foremost landmarks that any non-American could be acquainted with are all there. Plus with the large choice of vehicles and the power to group up with associates, it might simply be the final word highway journey recreation.
