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"The Open World Buyer's Guide For June.
While reviews have given these three a hearty dose of praise, with the best making sure to review each on their own individual merits, there is still a question remaining: if you can only afford one, which is right for you?
It's evident all are quality games, and one can't be simply hailed as 'the best' for everyone.
After all, different players have different values they look for in open world games. Where one wants an intriguing story, someone else may be in it only for messing up a city and feeling like a badass, while another wants the feeling of freedom from running and leaping through a giant playground.
This article is for those people who simply want to know how each measures up in the separate features of sandbox games, and can choose their poison from there."
While the mainstream media always sees things turning in favor of the hero, here are 6 games that own being a bad guy.
Pretty much all of these games listed are based around a morality system you don't have to be bad and you don't have to be good.
It seems to have left out some real amazing games like red dead redemption 1/2,ass effect and true crime la/ny
Armored Core VI?
Ok, I'm really missing something here. Just beat chapter 3 earlier this evening, unlocked A-rank Arena fights. I'm not seeing or sensing any branching paths or morality system and I've done every side mission and arena fight available to me up to that fight.
Is something big coming soon to branch the story?
No mention of Grand Theft Auto? Saints Row (original trilogy), Manhunt? Also The Suffering (depending on the ending you get).
The inFamous games are an important part of PlayStation history, but the series is in limbo and playing older entries isn't exactly easy.
Would like remasters of 1 and 2. I enjoyed them much more than Second Son.
1 & 2 had more of an emphasis on climbing and the traversal requires a bit more effort in a good way. It was rewarding. Second Son made climbing mostly obsolete so they put little effort into it. The traversal was just great in inFamous 1 & 2. There's a reason Sunset Overdrive copied and improved upon the induction grind mechanic.
Reminds me of how I felt about the decline of parkour and the well designed tombs (basically Prince Of Persia levels) that we saw in the Assassin's Creed games.
The story and atmosphere were also much better in 1 & 2.
Electricity is just a brilliant superpower for an open world city. It perfectly fits just like webslinging does in New York and it has many applications.
Wouldn't the onus be on the consumers? If they bought the Infamous games, then we'd have more games from that series.
I would love to see a new game but a feel that would get a response similar to Saints Row.
Loved all 3 of them. I couldn't get on with the vampire spin off though. Wish they didn't move away from cole but I didn't mind the other character.
Nixxes' Remaster focus could set the stage to resurrect many obscure titles like the karma-centered, superpower-fueled sandbox of Infamous.
Infamous remaster? How about an Infamous re-Boot! This is one game that doesn't need a remaster, it needs either a proper equal of a reboot of the original. And since Sony is currently in development with Marvel, i can totally see them having guest marvel characters to appear in Cole's world.
I'd like a Killzone 2 Remaster.
Keep the visuals style as is ... just improve the LoD and the resolution
There is a lot of the PS3 era that I would love to see ported/remastered. But, unfortunately, they are probably not commercially viable and I have no idea who owns the rights currently. Stuff like Sire: Blood Curse, White Knight Chronicles, Tokyo Jungle, Folklore, etc.
Infamous on the other hand was never a series that I found good or interesting. Especially when compared with other contemporaries like Prototype. But, given how bare the subgenre is right now, I would dig a remaster.
Infamous, Resistance, and killzine are so ripe for a remaster, I wish Sony would make it happen.
I found this a very useful way to look at each open world game: instead of saying this game is better than that, it looks at different aspects so depending on what gamer you are you know which is best for you.
I think I'm more Red Faction...but the real open world game I'm looking forward to is Assassin's Creed 2!
Really well presented article....
my preference would be Spiderman: Web of Shadows, a game that tends to be forgotten, I found that game a bit more entertaining than those 3.
An Xbox only site should stick to covering Xbox 360 games and leave PS3 exclusive out. It is nothing against your and it writers. However, if you are an xbox 360 only website, then there will be some form of injustice toward a Playstation 3 exclusives or Wii Exclusives.
I think what's really important to consider is that they're all great games. Not just good games, but great games. We got 3 great sandbox games all at once. I am happy at this.
was a good guide tbh. I haven't actually played prototype, i was tempted but instead i actually bought red faction.
for me inFamous was a great game and i had no problems playing through as both good and evil (infact i started the second straight after i completed it the first time) but after that theres little left to keep me playing cus nearly all enemies are dead and all you can really do is terrorize civillians lol
Prototype will probably be a game i pick up wen it's on offer in the near future.
Red Faction. So far i haven't played much single player. It just seems pretty repetative and it may sound stupid, but having so much stuff to do can be a bit :| cus you just dunno where to start lol It's like when the house is a mess and you gotta work out which room to start cleaning first :p
however the multiplayer in Red Faction is a lot of fun imo, nothing to be taken too seriously like a lot of games out there but modes which see's 1 team trying to destroy buildings while another frantically tries to defend them, and even rebuild them using a certain weapon is a lot of fun.
like i say i can't really comment on prototype having not played it however it seems we have 3 different open world games that each offer very different experiences and are probably all worth picking up at some point :)