What Open World Games Did Right in 2012

Am getting to play Far Cry 3 now. Its awesome. I love open world gaming.

ok so i loved FarCry 3 and sleeping dogs and my fav was horizen but what bout need for sreed most wanted i don't know if it is an open map but i looooooooooooved it what u think ??

im playing sleepingo dogs a it has a incredible world , but no one cant win the map of just cause 2 that is a biiiiiiiiggggg wolrd to explore

I agree with FarCry 3 completely. But I agree with DeroxKING, what about Assassins Creed?

YOU FORGOT ASSASSINS CREED 3!!!!!! WTF MAYNE!!!!!!!

It had way better hunting that farcry 3 and more realistic animal encounters

example, you shoot an animal with a pistol/musket or whatever, and when you go to skin the animal the hide is ruined, but if you use a blade to properly kill an animal the animal hide is not ruined.

in farcry you shoot a pig with a shotgun and you can still skin it and somehow get a perfectly skinned useable hide from it.

farcry 3 is awesome its got a huge world filled with tons of stuff to do besides the main story and the quick travel system makes it perfect this game defo got it right

Honestly, a first person view open world can't be seen. It totally loses the sense of immersion...

I'd love to check out FarCry 3.

In far cry 3 you can do anything . It's very very good game ;)

@lionheart66 @daniel1998dude and you siggest how it should have been done?

No hunting games???

YES!!! Farcry 3 is an amazing game, when you get a little tired of doing missions, run around, air glide or drive a buggy and kill some animals. They did everything right in farcry 3

What I like most about open world games is always having something to do. In many games I can feel intimidated by having to start yet another huge mission or level but when I feel I can pick a bitesized chunk of gameplay I tend to play a game more often. The funny thing is that I end up playing a *lot* longer as well. It's almost insidious game design. Pointing at you, Far Cry 3!

Bows! or at least far cry 3 nearly did except for lack of visual feed back and making it slightly to awkward to use. Skyrim had bows in 2011 but at the very least continuing the trend of potential badass archery should be applauded.

I don't buy FC3 as an open world game. Yes it's a beautiful game world with, lot's of baddies, and hostile wild life, great game play......................'but" in the end the main story line is a cut scene, tightly scripted, linear corridor shooter with two endings. How about half the gameworld being off limits without a mod to open it up for you; or you have to hit all the main story check boxes in the canned missions to get there. Then there's the sophomoric plot taken from someone's 8th grade writing class, that in conjunction with the scripted linear main missions leaves you no choices on how to accomplish them. Wouldn't being able to handle the two main antagonists at times and places, and in your own manner have been the bomb? Not to mention a branching story line to go with that scenario.

Cart Life deserves some recognition me thinks

Also, while I enjoyed Far Cry 3 and its gaming, it doesn't hold a candle to those advertisements that keep saying "It's Skyrim with guns!" The reason I'll go back and play Skyrim 10 times, then throw 50 mods on it and do it again, is because the open-world environment is memorable. Far Cry 3, while large and populated, had no set-pieces that wowed me, or stunning visual croppings that made me want to play for ages. It had fun gameplay and story, but I'd be much more interested if they hadn't used the ctrl-c / ctrl-v method for their world.

"Sleeping Dogs has this crazy idea about combat in an open-world action game. The idea goes something like this: what if you made hand-to-hand combat not...suck."

So...Arkham City?

Been playing NFS: Most Wanted, personally. I loved Burnout Paradise, so playing another Criterion game in the same sort of fashion felt great. Admittedly, I don't think it ever achieves the sort of ingenious freedom that Paradise did, but it's still a good amount of fun, and it looks fantastic.

Well for an open world game i am waiting around for Grand Theft Auto 5, Hopefully it won't be GTA4 2.0 because if it will be like that well...San Andreas, i shall re-install you and play you for the whacky stuff that you do

Also not sure if this counts but I've seen some watch dogs and well...Seeing as there are cars in it and a bunch of crazy stuff i hope there's an open world to it too, if not well...I will be rather annoyed because i was hoping to muck around with people's devices with my phone from the year 4000

i cant wait for San Andreas.

Im hoping GTA5 is so good it sets a new benchmark for open world gaming lol

Best thing Far Cry 3 did was first person driving. In a lot of other Sandbox games players go into third person view as soon as they get into a vehicle. I find it hurts the immersion in games like Borderlands 2 that do this.

Farcry 3 and Sleeping Dogs.

me too...

(how to put fire on the island just to kill a leopard)

youtube.com/watch?v=0RNEgCCXWAw

Sandbox gaming, my favorite!

@Codester_41 - ha ha! that's awesome.

I liked how, in Sleeping Dogs, Wei Shen pulled a helmet out of his ass everytime he hopped on a motorcycle. Safety first!