15 Open World Games That Didn’t Fully Utilized Their Potential

Open worlds are some of the most challenging to develop, and they don't always turn out winners. Here are some that wasted their potential.

Posted By | On 19th, Jun. 2023

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Just Cause 4

Where do you even start with Just Cause 4? If it’s not the world and its regions feeling almost indistinguishable, it’s the lack of C4 and grenades for creating all kinds of destruction. You still have plenty of tools to make that happen, but liberating places feels off (especially since enemies still hang around in the area), and there are tons of boring fetch quests and objectives instead of incentivizing you to cause wholesale destruction. Whatever destruction is there feels toned down and insignificant. Throw in terrible performance and bugs at launch, not to mention the awful vehicle controls, and it was the perfect storm of controversy before Avalanche implemented fixes and updates.


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