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This is a list of the largest open worlds in video games.
List of largest worlds
This list only includes designed open worlds, excluding randomly/procedurally generated worlds[n 1] and unscaled overworld maps.[n 2]
- Final Fantasy XV (2016) — 700 square miles[9] (much of this not traversable, can only be flown over)
- Just Cause 3 (2015) — 390 square miles[10]
- True Crime: Streets of LA (2003) — 240 square miles[11]
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands (2017) — 170 square miles[12]
- Xenoblade Chronicles X (2015) — 154 square miles[13][14]
- Black Desert Online (2015) — 154 square miles[15]
- Guild Wars: Nightfall (2005) — 150 square miles[16]
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013) — 111 square miles[17] (mostly sea, most of inland inaccessible)
- Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising (2009) — 100 square miles[n 3]
- Final Fantasy XI (2002) — 70 square miles[18]
- Final Fantasy X (2001) — 49 square miles[19]
- World of Warcraft (2004) — 40 square miles[1]
- Guild Wars 2 (2012) — 36 square miles[20]
- Assassin's Creed: Origins (2017) — 32.8 square miles[21]
- Xenoblade Chronicles (2010) — 31 square miles[14]
- Grand Theft Auto V (2013) — 31 square miles[22]
- The Elder Scrolls Online (2014) — 31 square miles[n 4]
- Burnout Paradise (2008) — 26 square miles[24]
- True Crime: New York City (2005) — 25 square miles[25]
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) — 23.5 square miles[26]
- Sacred 2: Fallen Angel (2008)— 22 square miles[27]
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015) — 21 square miles[28]
- The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (2007) — 19 square miles[29]
- Far Cry 2 (2008) — 19 square miles[30]
- Far Cry 4 (2014) — 18 square miles[31]
- Far Cry 3 (2012) — 18 square miles[32]
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2002) — 16 square miles[33]
- Guild Wars (2005) — 16 square miles[1]
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011) — 15 square miles[34]
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006) — 15 square miles[1]
- Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae (2015) — 14 square miles[n 5]
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) — 14 square miles[35]
- Red Dead Redemption (2010) — 12 square miles[35]
- Spider-Man 2 (2004) — 12 square miles[36]
- Cosmology of Kyoto (1993) — 9 square miles[n 6]
- L.A. Noire (2011) — 8 square miles[37]
- Gothic 3 (2006) — 7.5 square miles[38]
- Grand Theft Auto IV (2008) — 6.8 square miles[35]
- Secret of Mana (1993) — 6.6 square miles[n 7]
- The Getaway (2003) — 6.2 square miles[40]
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015) — 6 square miles[41]
- Dragon Quest VIII (2004) — 6 square miles[42]
- Shenmue II (2001) — 5.5 square miles[n 8]
- Fallout 3 (2008) — 4.4 square miles[45]
- Seiken Densetsu 3 (1995) — 4.3 square miles[n 9]
- Fallout: New Vegas (2010) — 4.1 square miles[45]
- Fallout 4 (2015) — 3.8 square miles[47]
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) — 3.5 square miles[35]
- Sleeping Dogs (2012) — 3.4 square miles[48]
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (2002) — 3.3 square miles[1]
- Grand Theft Auto III (2001) — 3 square miles[35]
- Yakuza (2005) — 2 square miles[49]
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2006) — 1.7 square miles[50]
- Assassin's Creed Syndicate (2015) — 1.3 square miles[51]
- Shenmue (1999) — 1 square mile[43]
- Ys I & II (1989) — 1 square mile[n 10]
- Assassin's Creed Unity (2014) — 1 square mile[56]
Largest world records
This is a list of games that held the record for the largest open world upon release. This list only includes designed open worlds, excluding randomly/procedurally generated worlds and unscaled overworld maps.
- Hydlide (1984) — 0.04 square miles[n 11]
- Courageous Perseus (1984) — 0.1 square miles[n 12]
- The Legend of Zelda (1986) — 0.8 square miles[n 13]
- Miracle Warriors: Seal of the Dark Lord (1987) — 0.8 square miles[n 14]
- Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished – The Final Chapter (1988) — 0.8 square miles[n 10]
- Ys I & II (1989) — 1 square mile[n 10]
- Secret of Mana (1993) — 6.6 square miles[n 7]
- Cosmology of Kyoto (1993) — 9 square miles[n 6]
- Final Fantasy X (2001) — 49 square miles[19]
- Final Fantasy XI (2002) — 70 square miles[18]
- True Crime: Streets of LA (2003) — 240 square miles[11]
- Test Drive Unlimited (2006) — 600 square miles[61]
- Final Fantasy XV (2016) — 700 square miles[9]
Notes
- ↑ Procedurally generated worlds include The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (1996),[1] Asheron's Call (1999),[2] Star Wars Galaxies (2003),[3] EVE Online (2003), Just Cause (2006),[4] Fuel (2009),[5] Just Cause 2 (2010),[6] No Man's Sky (2016)[7] and Star Citizen (2017).[8]
- ↑ Unscaled overworld maps include the Ultima series, most Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy games, and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (1987).
- ↑ Kiska: 100 square miles
- ↑ The Elder Scrolls Online: 81 square kilometers (9 zones × 9 square km)
- 9 zones, 3 miles across per zone,[23] 9 square kilometers (3 km × 3 km) per zone
- ↑ Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae - 36 square kilometers (8 km × 4.5 km)[9]
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Cosmology of Kyoto:
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Secret of Mana: 17 square kilometers (4096×4096 world map,[39] 1 square meter per pixel)
- ↑ Shenmue II:
- Yokosuka - 1 square mile[43]
- Wan Chai District - 4 square miles
- Kowloon Walled City - 7 acres (0.1 square miles)
- Bailu Village (Guilin) - 1 square kilometer[44] (0.4 square miles)
- ↑ Seiken Densetsu 3: 11.1 square kilometers (1718×1613 world map,[46] 4 square meters per pixel)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Ys I & II - 2.40313 square kilometers
- Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished - 0.40313 square kilometers
- Overworld - 0.1 square kilometers (5.04 megapixels, 8×8 pixel tile per square meter)[52]
- 3 overworld maps: 4.32 megapixels (1200×1200 pixels each)
- Town: 720,000 pixels (1200×600 pixels)
- Dungeons - 0.30313 square kilometers (17 megapixels, 8×8 pixel tile per square meter)
- Overworld - 0.1 square kilometers (5.04 megapixels, 8×8 pixel tile per square meter)[52]
- Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished – The Final Chapter - 2 square kilometers (much larger than Ys I)[55]
- Larger overworld with 3 towns - 0.3 square kilometers
- 7 much larger dungeons - 1.422 square kilometers
- Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished - 0.40313 square kilometers
- ↑ Hydlide - 0.1 square kilometers (1095×1005 pixel world map,[57] 4×4 pixels per square meter)
- ↑ Courageous Perseus - 0.14 square kilometers (1200×454 pixel world map,[58] 2×2 pixels per square meter)
- ↑ The Legend of Zelda: 2 square kilometers[59]
- ↑ Miracle Warriors: Seal of the Dark Lord - 2 square kilometers (2 megapixels, 1600×1216 pixel world map,[60] 1 pixel per square meter)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 How big is Tyria?
- ↑ Tree models available
- ↑ Star Wars Galaxies, Procedural Content Generation
- ↑ http://martindevans.me/heist-game/2012/11/23/What-Isn't-Procedural-Generation/
- ↑ http://pcg.wikidot.com/pcg-games:fuel
- ↑ http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/192007/sponsored_the_world_of_just_cause_.php
- ↑ http://kotaku.com/a-look-at-how-no-mans-skys-procedural-generation-works-1787928446
- ↑ http://kotaku.com/star-citizens-procedurally-generate-planet-tech-seems-p-1748895886
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 http://www.dualshockers.com/final-fantasy-xv-map-size-potentially-revealed-its-roughly-an-enormous-780-square-miles/
- ↑ https://www.vg247.com/2015/10/02/the-map-in-just-cause-3-is-1000-square-kilometres/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Gertsmann, Jeff (May 15, 2003). True Crime: Streets of LA Impressions. GameSpot. Retrieved on May 8, 2015
- ↑ http://twinfinite.net/2017/04/this-console-generations-8-largest-open-world-maps/9/
- ↑ http://nerdreactor.com/2015/11/10/xenoblade-chronicles-xs-open-world-is-big/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 http://nintendoeverything.com/xenoblade-chronicles-x-details-world-size-battle-system-gamepad-usage-and-more/
- ↑ Size of the world
- ↑ How big is Tyria?
- ↑ http://twinfinite.net/2017/04/this-console-generations-8-largest-open-world-maps/7/
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Do we know how big the world is?
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Final Fantasy X Spira: 28 minutes span, 15 mph average human running speed, 7 miles span, 49 square miles area
- ↑ I've worked out the total PvE area to be just under 100 square km
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/assassinscreed/comments/6ve3v2/assassins_creed_origins_map_size/
- ↑ http://twinfinite.net/2017/04/this-console-generations-8-largest-open-world-maps/6/
- ↑ http://gameranx.com/updates/id/16676/article/the-size-of-the-elder-scrolls-online-s-world-calculated/
- ↑ http://burnout.gamepedia.com/Locations_%28Burnout_Paradise%29
- ↑ Torres, Ricardo (September 7, 2005). True Crime: New York City First Look. GameSpot. Retrieved on May 23, 2015
- ↑ https://nowloading.co/p/how-big-is-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-map/4222329
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_2:_Fallen_Angel#Gameplay
- ↑ http://twinfinite.net/2017/04/this-console-generations-8-largest-open-world-maps/4/
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/arts/design/24ring.html
- ↑ https://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/far-cry-2-single-player-could-last-25-hours-no-50-no-100/
- ↑ http://twinfinite.net/2017/04/this-console-generations-8-largest-open-world-maps/3/
- ↑ http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/news/a593540/far-cry-4s-world-is-about-the-same-size-as-far-cry-3s-rook-islands/
- ↑ Those units that Wind Waker uses?
- ↑ http://twinfinite.net/2017/04/this-console-generations-8-largest-open-world-maps/2/
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 35.4 http://complex.com/pop-culture/2013/09/grand-theft-auto-v-size-scale
- ↑ Spider-Man 2 Review
- ↑ https://kotaku.com/5799530/how-large-is-la-noires-map
- ↑ http://www.gamezone.com/previews/gothic_3_pc_preview
- ↑ Secret of Mana: World Maps
- ↑ http://gematsu.com/2009/01/top-7-open-world-video-game-environments
- ↑ MGSV TPP estimated at 6 square miles
- ↑ How large is the World Map
- ↑ 43.0 43.1 https://www.stripes.com/news/yokosuka-street-hosts-players-of-video-game-1.47957
- ↑ A Visit to Bailu Ancient Village
- ↑ 45.0 45.1 So exactly how big are all the maps in miles?
- ↑ Seiken Densetsu 3: World Map
- ↑ http://twinfinite.net/2017/04/this-console-generations-8-largest-open-world-maps/
- ↑ Sleeping Dogs
- ↑ http://gamingdeath.com/the-top-reasons-why-you-should-be-playing-the-yakuza-series/
- ↑ http://mashable.com/2017/04/24/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-size/
- ↑ https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/assassins-creed-facts
- ↑ https://twitter.com/manuelpazosmsx/status/748799314013466625
- ↑ https://www.msx.org/forum/msx-talk/software/ancient-ys-vanished-omen-the-abandoned-mine
- ↑ https://twitter.com/manuelpazosmsx/status/748800041364492289
- ↑ https://gamerescape.com/2014/01/23/classic-review-ys-ii/
- ↑ Assassin's Creed Syndicate's map is about 3.33km squared
- ↑ http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/hydlide/hydlide1-map.jpg
- ↑ https://twitter.com/ochixn/status/800719726611570688
- ↑ The size of Hyrule - Area comparison
- ↑ Golden Axe Warrior and Miracle Warriors Maps
- ↑ https://www.nowgamer.com/360s-five-biggest-game-worlds/