Hello everyone, today I would like to share with you a top of the biggest video game maps that have dated up to date, you will be surprised with the number one.
The video games over the years have changed a lot of their graphics, fluidity, soundtrack and especially its realism, since I have noticed that big companies that are dedicated to develop video games especially strive to expand that fantasy world that they offer us each game.
A video game is well received by the gamer community thanks to its history, soundtrack, gameplay and of course the freedom that this can offer you when interacting with objects within the game, that is why the main theme of this post is the size of the maps.
The Sandbox is a genre of video games, named for the freedom of action that the player can have in a video game. A non-linear video game presents the player with challenges that can be completed in a number of different sequences. While a more linear game will confront the player with a fixed set of challenges, a less linear game will grant much more freedom to the player
To better understand this post it is important to know the following:
The square kilometer is the unit area of area that corresponds to a square of one kilometer of side. It is equivalent to one million square meters.
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For you to have an example, New York is the most populated city in the United States of America.
Surface
• Total 1214 km²
• Land 789 km²
• Water 425 km²
We already know what are km², now we can start with the main theme.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Is a game of adventure and action. It is the fourth title of the series Grand Theft Auto and the second in 3D graphics.
The size of this map is 14 km².
Mafia
Is a game that recreates a battle between an informed minority and an uninformed majority. Players have secretly assigned roles: either they are "mobsters", knowing each other, or "citizens", who only know the number of mobsters against them. During the night phase of the game, the Mafia chooses an innocent to kill him. During the daytime phase, all players debate the identity of the mafiosi and vote to kill the biggest suspect. Normally they usually play more than five people, having to start always more innocent than mafiosos.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Is an open-world action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was officially confirmed by Rockstar Games in early March 2004, and its tentative release date was scheduled for 19 and 22 October for North America and Europe. Distributed by Take-Two Interactive, San Andreas was released for PlayStation 2 in October 2004, although later versions were released for both sixth, seventh and eighth generation videogame consoles, as well as computers and mobile devices.
The Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim
Fifth installment of the popular RPG series, The Elder Scrolls, in direct sequel to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Set in the realm of Skyrim, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim explores not only a new, much hardened and aggressive scenario, but also a new way of understanding the series.
The size of this map is 37 km².
Fallout 3
Fallout 3 unfolds in 2277, 36 years after the events of Fallout 2 and 200 years after the nuclear apocalypse that devastated the game world in a future where international conflicts with China culminated in a Sino-US war in the second Half of the 21st century. The main character is an inhabitant of Refuge 101, a survivor's shelter designed to protect a thousand humans from nuclear effects, but that refuge was prepared so that no one could go out or enter because the government wanted to see the effects of being locked up without exposing itself to Exterior. When the character's father disappears under mysterious circumstances, the player is forced to escape the refuge and embarks on a journey between the ruins of Washington D.C. to find it. Throughout the game the player will receive help from a reduced number of survivors and also must fight against a great variety of enemies in the area now known as "Capital Wilderness". The game has a system of attributes and combat typical of a video game of role and action, but also incorporates elements of video games of survival of horror.
The size of this map is 39 km².
Red Dead Redemption
Red Dead Redemption is a classic sandbox signed by Rockstar, creators of the saga Grand Theft Auto, that, this time, it moves its formulas of action and total freedom to a suggestive backdrop related to the Wild West. In the video game we are John Marston, an icon of anti-heroes in the history of interactive entertainment, who is involved in a story of revenge and justice against a group of bandits to protect his family in danger.
An open world in the "far west" full of endless prairies, mountain passes, border towns, duels, combats and peculiar gunmen await you in this title of the Houser brothers that is called Red Dead Redemption, an indirect sequel to Red Dead Revolver that this time uses the graphic engine RAGE already used in GTA IV and GTA V with extraordinary results both to render the cities of these and to show the impressive natural landscapes of this videogame of jeans, shootings and majestic trips on horseback.
Far cry 2
Is the sixth game of the series Far Cry and the second of the main deliveries. This is not the continuation of the first Far Cry, as this one has a new location, new characters, new protagonist and a new story. It is located somewhere in Central Africa, where our protagonist, a mercenary, arrives at the place to kill "El Chacal", an arms dealer who provides the two factions that have a civil war in the UAC (Untitled African Country, In Spanish Country Without Name African), the APR and the UFLL. Its launch was the 21 of October of 2008, for platforms of Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
The size of this map is 80 km².
Grand Theft Auto V
The game is set in the fictional city of Los Santos, as well as in the surrounding areas, based in the city of Los Angeles and Southern California. The city was also the setting of the previous game GTA: San Andreas. For the first time the game would focus on three different characters instead of one: Michael, Trevor and Franklin, in addition to the character that the player uses in online mode.
It is the second most expensive game in history, with an expenditure of 265 million dollars, surpassing its predecessor GTA IV 100 million dollars and being surpassed only by Destiny. However, Grand Theft Auto V raised $ 800 million in the first 24 hours of its release, making it the video game that had collected the most money in the least amount of time in history. Grand Theft Auto V, had raised a record amount of $ 1 billion in sales in 3 days.
The size of this map is 81 km².
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
It is a game of perspective in third person, the player controls to the protagonist Geralt de Rivia, a hunter of monsters known like White Wolf, is a sorcerer, who undertakes a long trip through the kingdoms of the north. In the game, the player fights the dangerous world through magic and swords while interacting with NPCs and completing both side quests and the main mission of the story.
The game has been acclaimed by critics and has achieved financial success, selling more than 6 million copies in six weeks. He has also won multiple awards for the best game of the year, given by various magazines, critics and awards galas, including the Golden Joystick Awards, The Game Awards and Game Developers Choice Awards.
The size of this map is 135 km².
World of Warcraft
Is a massively multiplayer online role-playing video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantastic universe of Warcraft, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994. World of Warcraft takes place inside the world of Azeroth, four years after the final events of the previous one Blizzard Entertainment announced World of Warcraft on September 2, 2001.6 Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
The game was released on November 23, 2004, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Warcraft franchise.
With 7.7 million subscribers, World of Warcraft continues to be by far the online subscription game with the largest user registry, keeping the Guinness Record for the most popular MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Rol Playing Game).
The size of this map is 207 km².
Superman returns
Superman Returns is a video game based on the movie of the same title. Developed by Electronic Arts-Tiburon in Orlando, Florida, in collaboration with Warner Bros., Interactive Entertainment and DC Comics.
The size of this map is 207 km².
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
Is a game about a fictitious conflict in one of the Sakhalin Islands, a conflict that threatens to expand to reach a global scale. The player assumes the role of a soldier of the United States, that forms part of an allied force that fights against the much more numerous Chinese forces by the control of the island.
The game focuses on a narrative campaign that places the player in various roles within allied forces, such as Marine, tank commander, Special Forces or helicopter captain. The game has an incredible recreation of the war, with great attention on the detail of the weapons, the equipment and the tactics of the armed forces. The action varies, from intense shootings to tactical decision-making on how to achieve the objectives of the mission. The most accessible, attractive and visceral sandbox shooter, Includes more than 100 vehicles and realistically shaped weapons, including tanks, infantry vehicles, APCs and attack and transport helicopters.
Players should strike a balance between brute force and intelligent use of tactics on missions without any script with real objectives, such as covering the withdrawal of an allied unit or conducting short-range reconnaissance patrols.
The size of this map is 350 km².
Burnout Paradise
Is a racing sandbox developed by Criterion Games, responsible for several games in the Need for Speed series. Developed in the fictional city of Paradise City, an open world environment with mechanics ideal for online multiplayer, a "complete reinvention" of Burnout in the words of its creators.
Both free and paid modes expand the driving offer of Burnout Paradise, where players can enjoy Showtime, Marked Man and many more. Service care turns the game of speed and destruction into something very close to an MMO that has also been experienced later in The Crew or Forza.
The size of this map is 518 km².
True Crime: Streets of LA
True Crime puts us under the command of Detective Nick Kang, the archetype of loose and unmanned cop who gives as much war to the commissary as to the thugs because of his unorthodox methods of combating organized crime. The story, divided into eight different chapters, with different missions each, begins when we are required back to work in the police department after being expelled.
The reason is that the triads and the Russian Mafia have allied to generate evil in the already bustling city of Los Angeles. After refusing to have a partner since the real police are working alone, we will begin to introduce ourselves in a plot line of a B-series crime film where conspiracies, threats to the family and revenge that pass from generation to generation have room.
Just Cause 2
Is an action video game developed by the Swedish company Avalanche Studios and published by Eidos Interactive and Square Enix. Their mode of play is of total freedom. The action, as well as the plot, takes place in the fictional archipelago paradise of Panau.
The protagonist is, once again, Rico Rodriguez, the agency's most qualified and dangerous agent, who is sent to Panau to eliminate a dissident agent who has taken refuge on the island. Just Cause 2 belongs to the sandbox genre offering a total freedom seldom seen in a game of these characteristics.
The player has at his disposal more than 1000 square kilometers to explore at his will. Although it is possible to request an extraction to move quickly through the great mapping, the player can drive a great variety of vehicles to move around the field like mopeds, motorcycles, cars, trucks, airplanes, helicopters, boats or boats, among others ( Some of them hidden, like a balloon). Rico Rodriguez, and therefore the player, can walk, run, jump, tumble and crouch.
In order to fight, Rico can use various firearms such as pistols, machine guns, assault rifles, rocket launchers, shotguns of various calibers, and even dismantle fixed turrets and take them with him to eliminate enemies and stage elements in an extreme way, thanks to The infinite ammunition they hold.
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Test Drive Unlimited
Is a Test Drive series street racing video game that contains car and motorcycle licenses on more than 1,500 miles of roads and highways on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, developed by Eden Games and published by Atari.
The cars are classified in classes, from the G to the A (being the G classic cars and the A high performance cars). The bikes are also classified in classes, MB (MotoB) and MA (MotoA). If the player registers a profile in the game valid as GameSpy ID, apart from all offline content, he will also access all the content online.
While you are not disputing a race you will be able to synchronize with him 7 players maximum (8 counting to the own player), will be able to create and to belong to clubs, will be able to accede to competitions online within the club, between clubs or between other players of the game.
The Crew
In this driving experiment, Ubisoft combines genres such as the MMO and open-world sandbox or fast-burning arcade games such as Burnout and Need for Speed.
Travel the United States from end to end in this frenetic game of speed that transports us to a virtual world permanently connected to the Internet, in which thousands of players coexist with a single purpose: to have fun. Careers, skill tests, police chases ... either alone or with three other friends.
The size of this map is 5000 km².
Fuel
FUEL already appears in the writings of our recent history to have, no more or less, the Guinness Record for the largest playable scenario in a console video game. More than 14000 km2 of explorable land, which does not suffer loading times or cuts that divide the different areas that make up this devastated world that presents itself. It is all a merit that the developers have also achieved that feat is a visual wonder, meeting on more than one occasion against truly spectacular landscapes. This, undoubtedly, is a hallmark of the game, and is as much a virtue as the greatest of its defects.
At any time we will have the opportunity to drive wherever we please thanks to the Free Mode that offers the game, and in which we will lose many minutes, even hours, looking for hidden objects to improve our vehicles, our character or to find new challenges that We are not offered entry into the competition mode. There are also, spread over the map, different points of interest that only pursue us to take us to places of difficult access so that we look for the life to get there, and with it show us one of those incredible panoramas that I mentioned previously. A detail that reflects, no doubt, the mime with which they have made such a scenario.
Guild wars nightfall
In Nightfall we will control a character created from scratch, or one imported from one of the two previous episodes and we will take it by the dangerous world of Elona. Also we can start with a character already at his maximum level, 20, oriented to PvP.
After a long war the three provinces of this mythical place seem at peace thanks to the intercession of the Sun Lancers, an order that appeased the conflict unleashed by a power struggle seventy years ago. We are not going to "gut" in this analysis the story of Nightfall, which otherwise we say is quite interesting, and that quite reasonable way gets us into that fantasy world.
At the beginning of the game we will be explained some aspects of the story, and we will put ourselves in situation with a poor video, made with the game engine itself and with a very improved dubbing, which prepares us for the first mission that we will carry out Of tutorial, and accompanied by some soldiers. One of the aspects in which at a glance Nightfall surpasses his predecessors is in his narrative ability to tell us the story, clearly superior to previous deliveries.
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
Daggerfall came out in 1996 and is by far the most comprehensive RPG of all the Elder Scrolls that have hit the market. From the very creation of the character we can observe the large number of options and parameters with which to play so that our alter ego adapts to our needs. Not only with the usual choice of skills and characteristics, will we also be able to decide what special advantages or disadvantages our character will have (at the cost of reducing or increasing the speed at which we can level up) or the relationship with different social classes of the game Nobles, delinquents, merchants, etc.
Daggerfall is the only title in the non-linear saga, offering up to 6 different endings depending on the decisions we make in the game. Of course, like all other titles in the series, it is not necessary to follow the main mission of the game, being able to perform endless secondary tasks or simply spend time exploring the terrain.
Daggerfall is in the enormity of the world to explore, there is no other to look at some figures to understand it as for example the 160000 km2 of surface to explore (twice the surface of Great Britain), the 15,000 cities to visit or 750000 NPCs with The ones to talk to.
Minecraft
The world of Minecraft is infinite and is based on blocks, the vast majority of them with cube shape and the same dimensions. And yes, we say well, infinite, because you could begin to travel without ever getting to the edge; Before the storage of your computer will be exhausted.
Infinity plus is dynamic. No two worlds are alike, because every time you start a new game creates a new world, different from the previous one. Although your vision is limited, you can go walking around the world to discover different things: villages, animals, natural events (volcanoes, caves, faults, etc.), and most interesting of all: you must go picking up materials to go Advancing in the game, building new objects or improving those you already have.
No Man's Sky
The ambitious Hello games project is already gold, and its 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets are already safely in the 'No Man's Sky' master copy, yet how much space is needed to hold so many worlds, satellites , Different creatures and stars in a Blu Ray? According to Sean Murray, head of the project, only 6GB.
The secret is that this universe has been created in a procedural way, which saves a lot of space on the disk.
Interestingly, Murray has also indicated that much of that space is occupied by audio tracks.
The game will require more than 6GB of hard drives from our PS4 and PCs.
'No Man's Sky' is scheduled for release on PS4 and European PCs from next August 9 by putting at our disposal more than 18 trillion planets to travel in our crusade to the center of the universe.
Being a procedurally generated spatial simulator, no player will live the same as the others. Although the final objective will be the same for all, just like the initial, which in this case will be to fix the components of the ship to start exploring the space, without neglecting our exotraje either.
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Computers do not handle infinity very well. But there are 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets in the universe. If you visit each one for a single second, it would take you 585,000 million years to see them all, so maybe it can be.
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conclusion
The world of video games lives in a constant change, we are increasingly surprised with their content and I do not think it will stop now, I realized in making this post how much they have changed the games, it seems really incredible that they can offer us the Opportunity to experience that fantasy world we sometimes need to forget the real world problems. I am very sorry if the post is very long, some games were left out, I could only mention what I called the most attention.
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