11 of the best open world games

1. Forza Horizon 4

platforms: PC, Xbox One.

Despite the fact that Forza Horizon 4 - this is racing, the world of the game deserves special attention. Every week there are replaced by the seasons, and this affects the behavior and cross-country trails of cars on them.

The picture is complemented by the fact that it is an online game. You can interact with other players, but they can not prevent you, for example to push out of the way. But there are networking events that change every hour.

And yet on the map randomly scattered space for jumping. There you can perform crazy stunts.

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2. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One.

It was with the release of the third part of the series The Witcher has found real success. This has contributed to the emergence of an incredibly beautiful world full of dangers and interesting jobs.

The protagonist of the project witcher Geralt can move around the map on foot or on horseback, explore the forests, fields and caves, go into people's houses and collect herbs for Alchemy. The bulk of the world resembles medieval Europe, but you can catch a boat and sail to the island of Skellig cold.

When traveling, the protagonist will bump into strange creatures, a gang of bandits or people who need help. And if you are not ashamed to show curiosity and go on untrodden paths, it is possible to come across something particularly valuable.

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3. Grand Theft Auto V

platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One.

Map GTA V It is a copy of a healthy piece of Los Angeles, who worked as much as possible. You will drive through the endless roads by car or bike to climb high into the mountains in their two, to dissect airspace on an airplane or helicopter, and even explore the depths of the ocean to the bathyscaphe.

If you get tired scurry back and forth, or perform exciting jobs, go to the tennis court, golf course or to the cinema. In GTA V Sea activities, and therefore can not break away from the game.

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4. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One.

We seasoned web fighter Venom Snake mass of important tasks and perform them to him to be in Afghanistan and Angola. You can navigate through them on foot, on horseback or by car.

Around full of closely guarded villages, checkpoints and buildings. Security is very alert, intelligent and adapts to your behavior. For example, if you often kill enemies with headshots, then soon they start to wear helmets.

How to play Metal Gear Solid V, each chooses. You can become quiet a liquidator, which no one ever notices, but you can just take the most powerful gun and begin to destroy everything in its path. However, it encouraged all the way to the first passage.

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5. Minecraft

platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii U, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, Windows Phone.

At your disposal - a huge map. All it consists of units, and in this lies the great creative potential: from a variety of different materials can make almost any thing or mechanism.

You can build up any real buildings or construct its own building or even an entire city. You are free to build a small house on the hill and live peacefully, cultivating vegetables and engaging in deforestation. And you can go deep into the earth, searching for treasures and fighting with skeletons and zombies.

This is only a fraction of what you can do in Minecraft. The main stop - your imagination.

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6. Fallout 4

platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One.

You will explore Boston, destroyed nuclear war. Wasteland filled with a variety of consequences of radioactive contamination: from the poisonous swamps and ending with the terrible monsters. No less dangerous looters, scurrying here and there in search of prey.

You will find a lot of dilapidated buildings in all their glory retrofuturisticheskoy. They can stumble upon interesting and useful things: weapons, supplies, and so on. But do not expect that all this will get you easily: in addition to the enemies waiting for you computers and locks that need to crack.

A stimulus to explore this dangerous world appears due to the interesting plot and side quests.

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7. Middle-earth: Shadow of War

platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One.

In this game you will find yourself in the heart of the dark of Mordor - the place known to every fan of Tolkien and "Lord of the Rings." You do not cut off the heads of one hundred orcs, riding cynomolgus karagora and plenty pokarabkaetes through the dark caves of the monastery of Sauron.

A distinctive feature of the game is a system of "Nemesis". Thanks to her, all the orcs - it is a unique character with its habits and strengths and weaknesses. They continually try to kill you to get a raise in his caste. But you can use them for their own purposes. For example, enemy sending a mill as scouts.

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8. Ghost Recon: Wildlands

platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One.

In that shooter you get as part of a special squad to Bolivia, where you need to destroy the drug cartel, who seized power in the region. How to perform this important task, it's up to you.

Ghost Recon: Wildlands opens when to play it with your friends. This tactical fighter, so every soldier in the unit - a role to play. Someone, for example, can be a sniper, and someone - to try to sneak into an enemy settlement and eliminate as many enemies as long as it is not detected.

Open world allows you to get close to the enemy from all sides. Even more variety of passing grows thanks to the abundance of devices such as reconnaissance drones, as well as transport and weapons.

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9. Far Cry 5

platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One.

Far Cry 5 - one of the best examples of games where you can go wherever you want and do whatever you want. The project is truly a huge map, full of exciting landscapes, aggressive animals and dangerous sectarian settlements. You can navigate by car, helicopters, planes, boats and ATVs.

Imagine that peacefully catch fish in the river, when suddenly above his head sweeps enemy plane and falls somewhere nearby. You go check out the scene, but found that the victims have already come to the rescue, and start a fierce gunfight. Here you are done with the enemies, using an arsenal, but has nothing to do with a sudden from behind a tree and the turkey jumps zaklovyvaet you to death.

Such situation in the Far Cry 5 are one by one. The game is always something going on, so tired of it very soon.

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10. Yakuza 0

platforms: PC, PlayStation 4.

A prequel to the series of Japanese fighters, which Russian citizens for a long time did not know much. Today Yakuza games appear on a growing number of platforms, so their popularity is growing.

The project tells vivid stories from the lives of two characters that are associated with the underworld Japan. The game is notable for the fact that there are so many exciting and often the country of employment.

The city is full of discos, karaoke bars, casinos and even clandestine erotic video clubs. Each institution its mini-games: You can arrange the race on machines, dance, call girls and invite them to date.

We should not forget that the Yakuza 0 - it is also a cool shooter with a varied and unusual combat system.

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11. Assassin's Creed Odyssey

platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One.

Last year's Assassin's Creed Origins was a revelation in terms of what could be the game of the series. This year, the developers have taken their best ideas and put them into a new project - Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

The action takes place in ancient GreeceAnd you play for mercenary who tries to find his family. It is only what you project limits. With whom to be friends and with whom to fight, what tasks take and what to ignore, it's up to you.

Area available area almost twice the size of Egypt in Origins. In addition, not only can you travel by land, but also to swim between the islands, engaging in intense sea battles.

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