13 Best Open World Games

How would it be if you could get out of the real world but be in a real world all at the same time? Pretty awesome right ? Maybe you’ll even feel that the world in which you belong to isn’t that good afterall. The open word games are those wherein you have absolute freedom in doing what you want in the game. Let’s check out some of the brilliant games and have an insight into the world of gaming.

#1 Prototype

Prototype is one of the infamous games by Activision. The story is centered around a person named Alex Mercer who has the ability to shape shift, absorb enemies and almost everything that a person can imagine to do. This is one of the games where as a player one can choose the “Free Roam mode” where you can basically climb over buildings, kill people at your wish, absorb them, hijack helicopters and tanks. That apart, there are interesting side missions too as well as the main storyline.

Prototype is one of those games which becomes addicting after the first few missions since you get complete control over the supernatural powers. It’s a survival horror genre and is a must play. Prototype has a sequel to it which is Prototype 2.

#2 Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs is an open world game developed in 2012 by United Front Games and Square Enix London. Gameplay centers on Shen's fighting, shooting and parkour abilities, and on gadgets that can be used for combat and exploration. Players must complete missions to unlock content and continue the story, but they may instead wander the game's open world and engage in both legal and criminal activities. The latter may incite a police response, the intensity of which is controlled by a "heat" system. Actions such as fighting, driving and racing ear statistical rewards and points. It’s a game based in the daily life of Hong Kong and complete freedom is given to the gamer/player.

#3 Batman: Arkham City

Batman: Arkham City is a 2011 action-adventure video game developed by Rocksteady Studios and released by Warner Bros.Interactive Limited for the PS3 and Xbox 360 and game consoles, and Microsoft Windows. Based on the DC Comics superhero Batman, it is the sequel to the 2009 video game Batman: Arkham Asylum.Arkham City is an open action-adventure game that incorporates elements of stealth game tactics. It is presented from the third person perspective, showing the playable character on screen and allowing the camera to be freely rotated around them. The Arkham City facility is open to the player from the beginning of the game, allowing them to freely travel anywhere within its boundaries. The player can opt to move silently throughout the game, using a combination of gadgets and stealth moves to sneak up on enemies and incapacitate them. Batman can use his cape to glide around the city. You are the ultimate superhero, You are BATMAN!

#4 Fallout 3

Fallout 3 is a post apocalyptic, sci-fi, action role-playing open world video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios , the fifth major installment in the Elder Scrolls series. Fallout 3 takes place in the year 2277, 36 years after the setting of Fallout 2 and 200 years after the Nuclear apocalypse that devastated the game's world, in a future where international conflicts between the United States and China culminated in a Sino-American war in 2077, due to the scarcity of petroleum reserves that ran the economies of both countries.

#5 Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an action role playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Betheda softworks. Skyrim's main story revolves around the player character’s efforts to defeat Alduin, the world eater, a Dragon who is prophesied to destroy the world. Skyrim continues the open world tradition of its predecessors by allowing the player to travel anywhere in the game world at any time, and to ignore or postpone the main storyline indefinitely.

#6 Farcry 3

Far Cry 3 is an open world, action-adventure FPS video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal. Far Cry 3 is set on a tropical island between the Indian and the Pacific Ocean. After a vacation goes awry, protagonist Jason Brody must save his friends, who have been kidnapped by pirates and escape from the island and its unhinged inhabitants. The player has the ability to take cover behind objects to break enemies' lines of sight and to peek around and over cover and blindfire. The player has the ability to perform silent takedowns by performing melee attacks from above, below, or close behind.

#7 Saints Row 3

Saints Row: The Third is a 2011 open world action-adventure video game developed by Volition and published by THQ. It is the third title in the Saints Row series. As in the previous games, the player character leads the Third Streets Saints gang in a turf war against three rival gangs using a variety of weapons and vehicles in single player and cooperative play. The series, and especially this title, is known for its crazy scenarios and lighthearted gameplay.

#8 Assassins Creed:Brotherhood

One of the most prolific creations of Ubisoft is the Assassin’s Creed series. The Brotherhood version which is the third part in the series is the best in the series and all the parts are Open world games. It is an action-adventure video game with main emphasis on nonlinear gameplay, sandbox style gameplay, parkour movements, crowd-blending stealth, assassinations and melee fighting system. The combat system features several and for the first time in the series. In the history of Venice, Italy is where the story takes place. You can climb walls, jump over rooftops and kill the Templars, take up challenges, help citizens of the city and what not.

#9 Mafia II

Mafia II is an action adventure video game developed by 2K Czech and published by 2K Games. The story is based on the late 1940’s mob underworld. The game is played from a third person perspective and its world is navigated on-foot or by vehicle. Players control Vito Scaletta, a war veteran who becomes caught up with the Mafia when trying to pay back his father's debts.

The player character’s criminal activities may incite a response from law enforcement agencies, measured by a ”wanted" system that governs the aggression of their response. The game scenario is that of the late 1940’s and the early 1950’s in LA,Chicago,NYC,Boston and Detroit.

#10 Grand theft Auto V

Grand Theft Auto V is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is an open-world crime epic set in the LA-inspired city of Los Santos around the lives of Franklin, a street hustler looking for real opportunities; Michael, a professional ex-con whose retirement isn't all he hoped it would be; and Trevor, a violent psychopath. Like all the other GTA versions of the GTA series, it gives full freedom to the user to do what he wants with the player. Steal cars, kill people at random, drive all the known vehicles known to mankind and well, in short have fun.

#11 Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm,s a fighting game developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Namco Bandai Games. The game is based on the Naruto Anime series. It revolves around a small boy named Naruto who is a big time failure in school but eventually proves to be the saviour for all mankind. The life of naruto is in the Ninja world and his home is the Hidden Leaf Village.

The gameplay is concentrated in the Leaf Village and similar to the other Open World Games, this gives full freedom to the player to use Naruto to do what he wants in the game. Apart from the main storyline, there’s the side missions and the free roam mode where you can explore the Leaf village and other ares when assigned a mission.

#12 Driver: San Francisco

Driver: San Francisco is an action-adventure racing game developed by Ubisoft Reflections and published by Ubisoft. The game has one of the largest driving environments. The game's San Francisco’s recreation has about 208 miles (335 km) of roads. Various landmarks are recreated in the game including half of the Bay Bridge and parts of Marin County and Oakland. Driver is an open world game with a unique feature altogether. It’s called SHIFT. One of the inspirations for Shift comes from Google Earth. The game is also being described as a "return to the roots" to the series as the ability to get out of the car. The very idea of exploring the whole of SanFransico with a realistic view around with a unique ability like Shift is a brilliant idea.

#13 Just Cause 2

Just Cause 2 is an action adventure video game developed by Avalanche Studios, published by Eidos Interactive and distributed by Square Enix. It is the sequel to the 2006 video game Just Cause. Just Cause 2 finds Rico Rodriguez returning in an epic open-world adventure set in the diverse tropical playground of Panau in South East Asia, where the aim is to cause chaos and destruction in a way that only Rico knows how! His mission is to destabilize the island and free it from the tyranny of the evil dictator, Baby Panay. Players tackle missions and objectives in any way they want while exploring the highly-detailed and beautiful island by land, sea or air, performing an insane range of new daredevil stunts and mastering the use of the all new grappling hook and Rico's trademark parachute.