Meaning of open world | Babel Free

Definitions

A gameworld that the player may traverse freely, rather than being restricted to certain predefined areas and quests.

also, attributive

Equivalents

Examples

“Role-play games […] they use a closed visual world of walls or grids or open worlds across computer systems”

“Open world games (sometimes referred to as "sandbox games") are one of the most popular genres of video games. They typically feature non-linear gameplay, the ability to roam the game world freely any way the player chooses, unscripted interaction with non-player characters (NPCs), and a living, breathing city, countryside, or fantasy environment to explore.”

“Liberty City, the virtual space of Grand Theft Auto III, can be interpreted as the spatial universe that qualitatively changes and combines the limited character attributes of the inhabiting non-player characters. Because they all seem to live and act in such a huge open world, they appear to be more complex themselves.”

“The Saints Row games are open worlds, and many consider the Grand Theft Auto series to also be open worlds.”

“The second category of storytelling that coexists in GTA [Grand Theft Auto]’s open world takes the form of player-driven stories.”

“What Guy doesn’t know, but the audience surely will (it's all over the trailers), is that he's not a real person at all but rather an NPC—or non-player character—in a popular and extremely violent open-world video game.”

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