open world
English
Noun
open world (plural open worlds)
- (video games) A gameworld that the player may traverse freely, rather than being restricted to certain predefined areas and quests.
- 2014, Carolyn Handler Miller, Digital Storytelling (page 283)
- The Saints Row games are open worlds, and many consider the Grand Theft Auto series to also be open worlds.
- 2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club:
- 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.
- 2014, Carolyn Handler Miller, Digital Storytelling (page 283)
See also
- fast travel
- sandbox game