Not exact matches
The insistence on prominently featuring the
open world itself, and the push for bigger and bigger
worlds, have left other,
more crucial
aspects of games ignored.
The use of an
open -
world, the (admitedly) impressive number of enemies on screen, and running at a smooth 60 FPS could justify some of those
aspects, but sadly the game is locked at 30 FPS, making the experience feel barely
more gratifying than playing a good remaster of a game from the previous generation.
The
open -
world and story - driven
aspects of the game are better suited to the Game of Thrones universe, giving us much
more potential for new features and gameplay modes.
It's
more open map than
open world because it does have many linear
aspects.
I could go in to
more detail about some of the
open world aspects of Rise of the Tomb Raider which are pretty entertaining at their core.
Uncovering these monuments in this vast
open world only made me enjoy the exploration
aspect even
more.
The comparison with GTA is coming up a lot, thanks in part to Ubisoft's Big Mass Market Decision to quietly sideline the
more original
aspects of Watch Dogs in favour of traditional
open world staples (guns and driving, yo!).
The quality of other
open world games really make New Vegas seem mildly archaic in its presentation, however the long list of missions, additional features and technical
aspects may entice the hardcore RPG fans to come back for
more if they are willing to forgive the rampant glitches.
Surely, there is room for improvement, as the Zelda
aspect of the game could have been a little bit meatier in order to offer a
more significant counterbalance to its
open -
world tendencies, which can take gameplay time up to one hundred hours.
I think this would be an important dimension to capture because someone who says elder scrolls 5 is one of their favorite games but only played it for 40 hours clearly did nt take the time to delver into the
open world aspects of that game, whereas someone who spent 500 hours playing grand theft auto 5 may have treated that game as
more competitively, or found ways to enjoy the gameplay experience that you wouldn't otherwise expect of the average player.
Hopefully, as we learn
more about the sequel, we will find out that they put
more attention into the
open world aspects and let players deal with the environment they laid out originally.