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It was a return-to-classics kind of day on Offworld, with Bethesda releasing their early first-person/open-world RPG Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall as a free download, and with the revivification of both Team17's classic Amiga shooter Alien Breed as a fully 3D affair, and the former FASA designers at Smith & Tinker giving MechWarrior a fantastic looking full reboot for PC and Xbox 360.
Boing Boing 2009
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This autumn, Rockstar is releasing an iOS and Android anniversary edition of this seminal open-world shooter, and here's the trailer to tease us.
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Created by former LucasArts adventure vet Tim Schafer (Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango) and starring Jack Black alongside a league of metal legends (Judas Priest's Rob Halford, Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister, Lita Ford, and, of course, Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne), the studio's open-world/driving/lite real-time-strategy opus is every medieval-apocalypse album cover brought to glorious life, finally fulfilling the wishes of two generations of disaffected patched-jean-jacketed and notebook-cover-doodling Hessians.
Boing Boing 2009
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It is, as you could probably have guessed, a darker, horror-themed take on the open-world action adventure series, promising several hours of gameplay as well as new enemies.
Gamescom 2011: notes from the Sony PlayStation conference 2011
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A third-person shooter with more explosions than a summer blockbuster, Just Cause 2 promised to burst into the open-world sub-genre with guns blazing.
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Just Cause 2 might seem like a standard, open-world shooter, but there are a few gameplay mechanics that make it special.
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A good example would be Wintergrasp, which was our open-world PvP zone in Northwind.
World of Warcraft Cataclysm: exclusive interview, part one 2010
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Just Cause 2 might seem like a standard, open-world shooter, but there are a few gameplay mechanics that make it special.
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So unless you've saved up a little batch of neglected RPGs and epic open-world adventures, you might be forced to go outside and lob a frisbee around for the next six weeks.
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A third-person shooter with more explosions than a summer blockbuster, Just Cause 2 promised to burst into the open-world sub-genre with guns blazing.
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