FreedomIncoming LinksMarch 1st, 2021The main feature of Open-World Games is that they open up the Horizontal aspect by making the Vertical aspect less predetermined. For the player, this is experienced in terms of Freedom.📰 Roam Free: A History of Open-World GamingOpen World video games bear the impossible promise—offering compelling, enjoyable open-endedness and Freedom within the constraints of what is, by necessity of the medium, an extremely limited set of possible actions. These games provide a list of (predominantly violent) verbs that's minuscule in comparison to the options you would face in identical real-life situations. Yet, we can't get enough of them.