Deus Ex is a famous RPG series with shooter elements that gave birth to the immersive sim genre: games in this genre give gamers the opportunity to complete missions in hundreds of different ways, including those that were not planned by the developers
STALKER is a popular series of first-person shooters with RPG elements from the Ukrainian company GSC Game World, which tells about fictional events after the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
The Sims is a legendary series of life simulations from Electronic Arts that allows you to create your own family in a fictional city and, by buying a house for them (or creating your own from scratch), begin to follow their lives
Uncharted is a series of action-adventure games in the style of Tomb Raider, the main character of which is treasure hunter and adventurer Nathan Drake
Codename Panzers is a military real-time strategy (RTS) series that tells an alternate history of World War II, which subsequently escalates into another armed conflict between former allies
Rayman is a series of games about the adventures of a hero named Rayman from Ubisoft, who constantly saves the world of Crossroads from various ambitious villains
Metro is a small series of shooters from the Ukrainian company 4A Games, created based on the book by Dmitry Glukhovsky “Metro 2033”, and later according to his own script
Games with stealth elements, although they rarely offer fans an open world, since they are mostly linear, still often require the player to use a PC with good hardware
Games about a zombie apocalypse, unfortunately, always present gamers with huge armies of the living dead, which can load the system and run slowly on weak PCs
Action games usually offer gamers exciting gameplay that includes a lot of special effects and a huge amount of detail happening simultaneously on the screen
Battle royale games, which really took off in 2017 thanks to PUBG, are multiplayer shooter games where 100 players compete for first place while trying to be the only survivor on the island
There are many different games released on the Xbox 360, many of which feature co-op: the ability to play the game with a friend on the same console using split and sometimes shared screen
Despite the large library of games on Xbox One, only a few of them offer co-op mode: the ability to play the game with a friend online or on the same console (split or shared screen)
Many different games were released on the PlayStation 3: among them, naturally, there are shooters, platformers, racing and action games with a cooperative mode
There are thousands of different games for Android smartphones in the world, some of which are about the zombie apocalypse, building your own base, crafting and surviving among hundreds of the walking dead
Among the thousands of games for iOS smartphones and tablets, many are about the zombie apocalypse, in which you need to build a base, craft and survive among the zombies
A huge number of different mobile games are released every month for Android smartphones, some of which look very beautiful: some of them boast modern graphics, which is why they are even ported for PC users
Typically, open-world games offer gamers the ability to freely move around, usually one large location, complete available tasks in any order, and explore the area in search of enemies and secrets
Despite the huge number of games released for Android smartphones, only a few of them can offer gamers a completely open world with exploration of available locations, completion of dozens of different quests and partial freedom of action (as much as the selected engine allows)
Some gamers, for certain reasons, cannot constantly use mobile Internet or WiFi connections, which is why some games on iPhone and iPad stop working at some point