Video games with open world becoming more and more popular

The Witcher

Portal – made compilation of video game’s largest maps of the open world. It is noted that the rankings take into account only a single map (relatively speaking, which is a single game world): that is, for example, “the Witcher 3: wild Hunt” has a huge map, but it is divided into several different worlds, between which require loading.

In addition, the selection did not include video games where huge areas have little unique content: for example, Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, where most of the game world represents almost the same type of open ocean; on the same principle, the rating did not include, for example, and No Man’s Sky.

Black Desert Online

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Black Desert Online is an MMORPG developed by Pearl Abyss Studio and released in South Korea in 2014 (late, the game was released in other countries). This is one of the most successful games of this genre in recent years. The area of the game world Black Desert Online is about 400 square kilometers.

Xenoblade Chronicles X

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Xenoblade Chronicles X video game in the genre of action/RPG, released on the Nintendo Wii U in 2015; developed by the Studio Monolith Soft. Open game world the game consists of five inhabited continents of the fictional planet of Peace that began to settle in people who are forced to leave the Earth. The area of the playing card Xenoblade Chronicles X is about the same 400 square kilometers. By the way, the game is one of the few projects with open world, released on Wii U.

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands

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Ghost Recon Wildlands, released in March last year, has the largest game world of all the games Ubisoft. This video game, which, by the way, the first part of the series Ghost Recon open world, the world of games, with a total area of about 440 square kilometers.