The Best Open World Games You Can Play Right Now...
The best open world games are a brilliant investment; engineered to offer you something new around every corner. They're usually designed with one central storyline, but the people you'll meet, places you'll visit, and hidden areas you stumble upon on your travels always mean plenty of other distractions. These top open world titles are here to absorb all your free time, with such rich worlds that you won't mind getting lost in them completely. Anything here can guarantee you a good time, so take a look.
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00:00 [Sounds of a plane taking off]
00:08 The best open world games are a brilliant investment, engineered to offer you something
00:12 new around every corner. They're usually designed with one central storyline, but the people you'll
00:18 meet, the places you'll visit, and the hidden areas you stumble upon in your travels always
00:22 mean plenty of other distractions. These top open world titles are here to absorb all of your free
00:29 time, with such rich worlds that you won't mind getting lost in them completely. Anything here
00:34 can guarantee you a good time, so take a look.
00:36 [Sounds of a plane taking off]
00:38 "I lost my parents when I was nine winters long. Without secret I would have."
00:44 All of the recent Assassin's Creed titles have been excellent open world games, but Assassin's
00:49 Creed Valhalla is definitely one to check out. Building on the improvements made with Origins
00:54 and Odyssey, Valhalla takes you to the Dark Ages, travelling across England as the Viking Eivor to
00:59 find a new home for your clan. Build your settlement, meet new friends, forge new ally
01:04 ships, dabble in politics, and do a heck of a lot of exploring to find the secrets and treasures
01:10 lurking in Old England.
01:11 [Sounds of a plane taking off]
01:14 "What is thy business with these thrones?"
01:19 Perhaps one of Elden Ring's greatest assets as an open world game is the ear of mystery that
01:25 shrouds everything. It gives little away, and adds a genuine rush to its exploration. Every door or
01:32 new location is as much a thrill as a threat. The open world structure has also softened From's
01:39 usual style of game design. It's not exactly more accessible, because there are still some hard to
01:43 beat bosses and high level areas that will hand your ass back to you in seconds, but the freedom
01:49 to explore removes the grind of the more linear Dark Souls series, letting you wander off and
01:54 explore, levelling up at a more leisurely pace and adjusting to the challenges ahead.
01:59 [Sounds of a plane taking off]
02:04 "Now, let's see where this thing will take us."
02:07 Horizon Forbidden West improves greatly on the original game, filling in its beautiful world
02:14 with a bunch of side quests, activities and things to do and find. This delivers a much larger and
02:21 far richer open world than the original, filled with side quests, large varied territories and
02:26 long branching stories to flow over tens of hours. Aloy's latest adventure is stunning to look at,
02:33 and filled with utterly memorable plots, characters and events, often to be found
02:38 quite some way off the beaten path of the main questline.
02:41 "Glad to see me?"
02:44 "Now you bet."
02:44 See that mountain? You can climb it, or ride your horse up there. You can also attach octopus
02:56 balloons to a raft and float up, or turn a fallen tree into a rocket and hang on tight.
03:03 Mixing up these ingenious mechanics is what makes this open world feel deliriously freeing,
03:08 as it encourages a special breed of mad scientist experimentation. Instead of quests propelling you
03:14 around the map, you'll find curiosity getting the better of you most of the time, as Breath of the
03:19 Wild's landmarks are downright intriguing, and offers the chance to find out more about the
03:24 world before Calamity Gammon struck. Alternatively, you can hunt down these 600 adorable Korok seeds,
03:30 or perfect your cooking repertoire, or take on a Lynel, or... well, you get the idea.
03:36 "Yo, sucker, give it up, or you'll get seed out of here!"
03:40 Come on, you can't have a list of the best open world games without chatting about GTA 5.
03:47 You know it, I know it, it's the most successful entertainment product of all time for Christ's
03:52 sake. Driving through the winding streets, taking advantage of skydiving, stabbing sharks with
03:57 knives, tracking a serial killer, running from the police, going full Trevor and causing as much
04:02 chaos as humanly possible, and do I really need to carry on listing all the stuff you can do,
04:07 we'll be here all year. Grand Theft Auto is a web of criminal exploits and mind-boggling potential,
04:13 with every single inch of the world filled with NPCs to manipulate, missions to hunt down,
04:18 or just colossal heights of shenanigans to engage in. It'll swallow you whole,
04:22 spit you out, and have you itching for more. "And you, somewhere stuck between joyful and peachy."
04:28 "Skrrt!"
04:35 Doesn't matter if you want to hunt, doesn't matter if you want to help Dutch achieve his
04:38 elusive goals, and it definitely doesn't matter if you'd rather just own the fanciest,
04:43 rootinest-tootinest wardrobe in all of America. Red Dead Redemption 2 is absolutely packed full
04:49 of things to keep you busy. It's a tale of the gradually disappearing age of outlaws,
04:54 as civilisation comes to the wild west, meaning there are plenty of people who need your help.
05:00 Rockstar's game will have you hunting for dinosaur bones, trying to solve a murder mystery,
05:04 or even summoning a vampire. The sheer variety of choice and things to do easily makes Red Dead
05:11 Redemption 2 one of the best open-world games to play right now. So, what are you waiting for,
05:16 partner? Geralt isn't perfect. His surroundings aren't perfect either. War ravages most of the
05:32 countryside, with bloodthirsty creatures who don't even stick to the shadows anymore preying
05:36 on innocent people. And yet that's what makes it the best open-world game to play right now,
05:41 still. Because everything is broken in its own special way. There's always something
05:46 plastered on peeling notice boards for Geralt to do. For gold, though, of course. Stick to
05:50 the dirt country roads and help villagers with the monsters baying at their door while they look at
05:54 you and your yellow eyes with suspicion. Negotiate with well-meaning poltergeists in the middle of
05:59 the city. Or just uncover all those mysterious question marks dotted all over the map. The
06:04 Witcher 3's imperfect world makes for a perfect game, meaning it is set an incredibly high bar
06:10 for the future of open-world games. And there you have it, that's our list of the best open-world
06:15 games you can play right now. If you think we missed any off this list, then let us know down
06:20 in the comments below and we'll see you on the next video.
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