After playing and beating all of the games that are going to be presented in this article, as the editors we have to be choosy when deciding which games we should present as some of the best free world games of all time. That being stated firmly, there are only three games that can even hope to make this competition, as from our standpoint, a game needs to offer much more than just a free world and open adventure to qualify as the best of its breed! So, on to the top three, at least in our minds!
Elder Scrolls IV: The Oblivion
An Action packed, choose your own adventure, free world, role playing game that is literally the only of its kind. Your character has one of the largest free worlds to explore in video gaming history. Grow your character’s stats by learning skills. Enchant weapons. Create armor and swords, learn how to become a blacksmith, thief, sorcerer, villain, tyrant, vampire, and so on. Read more
I know that many of you have been anxiously awaiting my review of this timeless hit by Bethesda, and here it is. By the way, if you ever wanted to spend money on a game, this one is the winner, BUY IT! You won’t regret it. In the game you start as an infant at birth and must design and customize your character. You grow up in an underground vault that protects the inhabitants from nuclear fallout that occurred seventy years prior. Upon reaching adulthood your father (a prominent doctor in the vault) opens the door and leaves. Now you must venture out on the bloody quest of a lifetime to find him and help to save, or destroy humanity, it’s your choice. Fallout 3, in so many words, is one of the best, most detailed, most invigorating, exceptional perfect games you can ever play. From the moment you begin to the moment you beat it, you will never be bored. It challenges you from left and right.
Moving on to the next segment of the best of the Xbox 360 games that were released during 2008 – I have identified what I feel are three more amazing games that have much to offer and quite plainly are some of the best shooter titles currently available for the Xbox 360 video gaming console. Games that truly take full advantage of the next generation technology that has been offered by Microsoft, and games that far surpass others in the same genre, or other games available for this console altogether. So without ado, here are three more top picks for 2008, and if you like shooters, these are must own titles!
Fallout 3
So many games, so little time to burn out your thumbs and acquire a case of RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) playing them. But if you are like me, and your wrists are more worn out than a ninety year old carpenter, then you already know that there are ample amounts of great games that were released for the Xbox 360 during 2008. Of course, it would be far too lengthy for me to ever truly list them and yap about all of them for you in this blog. So I have been forced to boil it down to what I believe are the top three Xbox 360 games of 2008.
Grand Theft Auto IV: This game truly takes the wholly cake and the icing too for the best damn game ever to be created. You play a cunning and illegal Russian immigrant who must forge his way through the unforgiving alleyways of New York City, dubbed Liberty City for this game. You can pretty much do everything.
Have you seen the newest release from the juggernaut software company, Bethesda? The company has recently been garnering much praise from the video gaming community as a whole for their fantastically successful debut of ‘Elder Scrolls: Oblivion’ which was one of the best selling video games of all time, and has been lauded by many as one of the best role playing or RPG games of all time. And now, Bethesda Software is hard at work again, this time bringing to the eager video gaming world their next latest and greatest RPG innovation: Fallout 3.
