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GameSpot: 10 Best Open World Shooters To Play Right Now
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Golgo 13
The Man With The Golden Dong
Slim pickings admittedly because of the genre, but god damn, Far Cry 6? Ghost Recon: Wildlands? These are middling video games at best, beyond bloated with zero soul. State of Decay 2... ugh. On the plus side Metro and RDR2 are decent and great respectively... but wow. That's definitely... a list.
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
Ghost Recon Wildlands for Top 10 open world shooters list is correct, it's very good at open world traverse freedom one of the reasons it sold well hopefully Ubisoft can turn around the series after Breakpoint.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Ghost Recon Wildlands should be #1 on a list called "Open world shooters".
Hell, Breakpoint should be #2.
Cyberpunk2077 and RDR2 aren't shooters.
Hell, Breakpoint should be #2.
Cyberpunk2077 and RDR2 aren't shooters.
lefty1117
Gold Member
WW2 Online was amazing in the day and even then its graphics were dated. If only these guys could have gotten a huge cash infusion and a chance to make the game on a big budget. It had an awesome dynamic front line, air/tank/infantry combined arms. It was something else. Otherwise I would also agree that planetside 2 was excellent too and underrated
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Not a bad list.
RDR2 is Goat material on PC, Metro Exodus is amazing as well.
I’m enjoying Far Cry 6, where the map is just enormous. Wild lands kicks ass, and Cyberpunk is decent.
State of Decay 2 wasn’t really my thing, even though I tried twice to get into it.
Haven’t bothered to play the others.
Surprised Just Cause didn’t land a spot.
RDR2 is Goat material on PC, Metro Exodus is amazing as well.
I’m enjoying Far Cry 6, where the map is just enormous. Wild lands kicks ass, and Cyberpunk is decent.
State of Decay 2 wasn’t really my thing, even though I tried twice to get into it.
Haven’t bothered to play the others.
Surprised Just Cause didn’t land a spot.
eastcoastkody
Member
i tried planetside on playstation once. it was dogshit.
Red dead 2 is not much of a shooter. The shooting controls were broken and didn't work for the first two years. I barely shoot anything in that game. Unlike the first Red Dead where i was shooting anything and everything. So i'd replace Red Dead 2 with GTA 5.
i tried Far Cry 5 recently so i would replace Far Cry 6 with that.
tbh like most of my list would be Ubisoft games. Breakpoint and both Division games would be on my list
Red dead 2 is not much of a shooter. The shooting controls were broken and didn't work for the first two years. I barely shoot anything in that game. Unlike the first Red Dead where i was shooting anything and everything. So i'd replace Red Dead 2 with GTA 5.
i tried Far Cry 5 recently so i would replace Far Cry 6 with that.
tbh like most of my list would be Ubisoft games. Breakpoint and both Division games would be on my list
ChoosableOne
ChoosableAll
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Guilty_AI
Member
RDR2 not so much, but CP2077 definitely is one.
Also, no MGSV automatically invalidates this list.
And ARMA Reforger instead of Arma 3? Seriously?
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remember_spinal
Banned
imagine not putting horizon on that list over literally any of those games
Gambit2483
Member
Almost all recent Ubisoft open world games are stupid big for their own good.
I bet the average completion for any open world Ubisoft game is 10% (or less)
Come On Tars
Member
Wildlands was some of the most fun online coop I have played. It's surprisingly robust how you can play it. from rambo to hardcore sim.
GigaBowser
The bear of bad news
I shut down the video when they rolled out Cyberpunk.
Best shooter? lmao
The shooting is terrible and the ai some of the worst ever
Best shooter? lmao
The shooting is terrible and the ai some of the worst ever
Apocryphon
Member
What an utterly pathetic list 
Reforger is awful. ARMA 3 is a far better game.
Do The Division 2 and The Ascent not count as open world?
No MGS V? What? It's not the game it could have been but it's better than most of that list.
Reforger is awful. ARMA 3 is a far better game.
Do The Division 2 and The Ascent not count as open world?
No MGS V? What? It's not the game it could have been but it's better than most of that list.
Zathalus
Member
Imagine thinking Horizon is a shooter, or that it is better then Red Dead Redemption 2.
remember_spinal
Banned
Horizon is 100% a shooter and its is more ‘fun’ to play than RDR2
Guilty_AI
Member
Zathalus
Member
BRB, playing my favorite shooter, Kingdom Come Deliverance.
Guilty_AI
Member
Legends say Skyrim is a shooter if you play as a stealth archer.
Zathalus
Member
Got you covered.
Skyrim SE - Modern Weapons
Get Wrecked Son!!! its a simple staff mod creates new staffs that are guns.
www.nexusmods.com
Skyrim is the best open world shooter confirmed.
Bragr
Banned
What do you mean?
Clockwork5
Member
I have my issues with the game but the single player campaign of Halo:Infinite is better than some of these titles.
LavitzSlambert
Member
I miss Planetside 1. It was so ahead of its time it’s ridiculous. It just needed location damage for its weapons, otherwise It was perfect. They just don’t make games like that anymore and it makes me sad.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Ah, one of those discussions about definitions of game genres... S2
Shubh_C63
Member
It shouldn't, I am a hardcore Destiny fan and its open world is dog shit. Division open world is waaay better.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Not on PC with decent "controllers" (m+kb).
Guilty_AI
Member
Not as good as elden ringGot you covered.
Skyrim SE - Modern Weapons
Get Wrecked Son!!! its a simple staff mod creates new staffs that are guns.
Skyrim is the best open world shooter confirmed.
GigaBowser
The bear of bad news
I have it on PC it's still a bad shooter. The controls are the only thing half decent. The AI and level/encounter design is so bad that the firefights feel very primitive.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
They’re no different than any other shooter. I don’t get what the bolded even means in an open world FPS.
It’s bad how, and compared to what games exactly?
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Why half? What's wrong that I missed?
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
I feel like the emphasis from those games isn't shooting.
RDR2 has absurd animation priority with lock on auto aiming.
Cyberpunk2077 has janky shooting with brain dead AI.
The strengths of those games are their setting, story, visual presentation...not really the shooting.
Just my opinion though.
Bragr
Banned
Well, sure but if it uses auto-aim or not, its core combat is still based on shooting.
Shooting isn't just FPS or run or gun, a game where you spend the majority of combat on shooting, is still a shooter. Even if it got RPG mechanics, Bioshock is still a shooter. Third-person shooters, RPG shooters, auto-aim shooters, lightgun shooters. They are all still games where shooting is the main combat system.
Something like Horizon is so based around melee that you can't call it a shooter, but anything that bases its main combat with guns, like Cyberpunk and Red Dead, is still primarily a shooter even if you don't like their shooting gameplay.
Deputy Moonman
Member
While not unexpected (as I know it's shit on Halo week), lol at not having Halo Infinite on that list. Probably one of the most pure open world first person shooters this gen. I know it's getting a ton of backlash for its expected and future content failures, but the campaign, even in its current state, is still more fun to play than most. If we're knocking Halo because of future content, most of the games on that list are not even providing future content... And then there is Star Citizen... Including a game that is not finished and might not ever be, and has been in development longer and had more money wasted on it than even Halo. Makes sense.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
jezhumphrey75
Banned
theyre remaking it on unreal engine 5 now.
