But open can mean different things depending on what a game is going for.
Urban Vs.
But when it’s an open-world game set in an urban setting, the calculus changes a bit.
I know I can stroll or roll down the streets.
The big question is: can I enter these buildings?
Increasingly, this is becoming a make or break issue for me.
If games cost a hundred dollars, a whole lot of people won’t play games.
The Rural Explorer
We get urban open-world games less often than rural ones.
The player relates to a field on the level of broad sweep.
But they relate to a building on the level of the individual rooms and the objects within that room.
You move through the field in pursuit of the next thing to do.
Eventually I gave up and just played through the quests.
So, as GTA 6 approaches, I’m hoping that it can deliver where 2077 failed.
GTA 6 doesn’t need to reinvent the wheel, and I hope it doesn’t.
It just needs to give us the key to the city.
Most Anticipated Game is not a real award, but it still has an interesting history.
