With each passing moment in Far Cry 5, I was astounded at how outright crazy things could get with just a small amount of input from me. Traversing rural America while trying to depose a religious cult leader may be the start and finish of the story but what really makes Far Cry 5 an […]
Tag: openworld
Larry Ellison’s slide clicker failed during his Oracle OpenWorld keynote (ORCL)
Oracle Oracle may have just announced a new fully-automated database, but there’s one area where the company is still dependent on humans: Larry Ellison’s presentation clicker. When the executive chairman took the stage Sunday night for the opening keynote of Oracle OpenWorld, he found himself struggling to keep his presentation slideshow aligned with where he was […]
Destiny 2’s open-world design may finally plug the endgame gap
PREVIEW: “Endgame” is typically a design element that we associate with massively multiplayer online role-playing games like Guild Wars 2, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and World of Warcraft. Endgame content preoccupies a player when narrative content and traditional methods of tracking player progression like leveling have tapped out. It’s the endgame content in an […]
‘The Division’ finally adds to its open-world game map
After spending much of the past year upgrading The Division‘s core gameplay and its player-versus-player content, Ubisoft is ready to turn its attention to fresh player-versus-environment material — and that finally includes a new area to play in. The free Resistance update will add the West Side Pier, a two-zone map expansion that includes its […]
Open-world adventure game ‘Rime’ comes to the Switch this November
Tequila Works’ highly-anticipated indie game Rime, formerly planned as a PS4 exclusive, is also headed to PC, the Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. While some were worried the open-world adventure would cost more on the Switch (it won’t), Rime will still take longer to arrive on Nintendo’s portable console. The publishers have finally announced a […]
Anthem is Bioware’s open-world sci-fi shooter with jetpacks
Bioware—the studio behind the likes of Mass Effect and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic—has a new sci-fi game in the works. Dubbed Anthem, the game is a third-person MMO shooter featuring exo-suit combat, a lush open world, and four-player co-op. Also, jetpacks. Following a brief reveal at EA’s E3 2017 showcase, Anthem got a […]
Roam free: A history of open-world gaming
Open-world video games bear the impossible promise—offering compelling, enjoyable open-endedness and freedom within the constraints of what is, by necessity of the medium, an extremely limited set of possible actions. These games provide a list of (predominantly violent) verbs that’s minuscule in comparison to the options you would face in identical real-life situations. Yet, we can’t […]
