Its settlement system means everything you do in the game has meaning, feeding back into the central experience.
It has a story that’s worth caring about. It rectifies much of was wrong with previous entries in the series. That’s what I want to focus on in this rundown, celebrating the open world game, the sandbox experience that these massive virtual spaces are designed to create.Īssassin’s Creed Valhalla is the newest and best of the many open-world games Ubisoft has designed. This is what differentiates great open world games from good ones, their potential as a sandbox, rather than the expanse of their landscapes, or the prettiness of their vistas. Yet the key to a great open-world game isn’t size, it’s what the game does with that space, how its sprawling expanse of mountains, deserts, forests, towns and so on opens up possibilities for play, for interesting and unique experiences. The popularity of open world games also shows no sign of waning, with players seemingly craving ever larger and more detailed worlds, and developers going to increasingly extreme lengths to provide them. They lure players in with vast horizons to chase, the promise of being able to travel to whatever they can see.
An offshoot of RPGs, open-world games generally remove the RPG’s emphasis on stats and character-building, putting exploration to the forefront of their experience.
Open-world games have dominated the industry for at least a decade.
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