Open world games have defined modern gaming — the freedom to explore vast, detailed worlds at your own pace has become the dominant design philosophy of the industry. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild reinvented what an open world could be — a physics-driven sandbox where every problem had multiple solutions and the world rewarded curiosity above all else. The Witcher 3 created an open world of unmatched narrative density — hundreds of hours of genuinely excellent writing in a world that felt alive and consequential. Red Dead Redemption 2 is the most technically accomplished open world ever created — a recreation of the American frontier of such extraordinary detail that players still find new things years after release. GTA V has been played by over 200 million people and remains the most commercially successful open world ever made. What is the greatest open world game of all time?
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