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Gaming's Biggest Maps

TGH Writes:
"These days, linear is for losers. Developers are turning their attentions to crafting free roam environments of immense size and beauty. These creations range from fantasy worlds filled with sorcerers and swordsman, to sun-baked prairies teeming with coyotes and cowboys. Some of them are vast wildernesses where a man can roam for miles and never see another soul, while some are considerably smaller in size and heaving with life. Then there’s the really big ones. Getting lost in these beasts may result in your in-game avatar being declared MIA and his virtual wife and kids holding a candlelight vigil. Here we are going to count down the games that boast the biggest maps, some of the results may surprise you. "

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SonySoldiers5829d ago (Edited 5829d ago )

a.k.a Blu-Ray says "Haiii..over here!"

WhittO5829d ago (Edited 5829d ago )

Guild Wars has a huge & detailed map with ALOT of different Landmarks/features in the different areas (Snow/Jungle/desert etc) not just the entire map being a desert or consisting of the same thing repeated over and over or something lol.

Thats not including the other lands of Nightfall or Eye of the North (which essentially almost doubles the size of the original map.

g0green5829d ago

dont reply if unrelated to previous comment!

FordGTGuy5829d ago

Were both single discs on Xbox 360. TDU was even on PSP and PS2.......

karan86245829d ago

But when you get into higher quality HD shit, DVD just wont cut it

UnSelf5828d ago

where the hell is Superman Returns map

2nd biggest map i ever played

FordGTGuy5821d ago (Edited 5821d ago )

rebuy that game if I found it for a dollar.

TehGamersHub5829d ago

Amazing list dude, Just Cause 2 was huge and very detailed so it well deserves its place.

troll5829d ago

Yeah, I bought Just Cause 2 recently and was absolutely delighted when I discovered that the map not only was huge but handled different climates really well. That engine is truly impressive if we disregard the lack of indoor environments. Hopefully we'll see some licensing and other games based on that engine.

Raf1k15829d ago

The problem with JC2 map is there's lots of space where there's nothing to do. Compare that to a map like that in WoW which is much smaller but has absolutely crap loads of quests to get through. Bigger maps are impressive but not so much when lots of that map space isn't used much.

troll5829d ago

Sorry but that just not how I see it. I like some elbow space or just random exploring. Since it's so easy to transport yourself around the map it's not really a big deal.

The problem with JC2 is not that there's nothing to do but that there's so little variation: Collect boxes, blow stuff up, move on.

But it is not so much the game as the engine that's impressive.

Jacobite5829d ago

Joint Ops has large maps great fun with packed servers

SuperStrokey11235829d ago

Nightfall isnt even close to that big... i played GW for 3 years and i was reading in the forums one time and a person actually calculated the size of the whole of tyria and each continent and it was far smaller than that.

Also what about things like EVE and Sins of a Solar Empire?

snaileri5829d ago

they forgot to play some flight simulators on PC.
sigh...

TehGamersHub5829d ago

That is a good point! Flight Simulator X was very impressive.

ShadyDevil5829d ago

Flight Sims? Who Cares. End.

renegade5829d ago

I agree i have fsx is fun i flight from new york to london thats lots of miles Fsx have all the planet.

karan86245829d ago

I got Flight Sim X, and the maps are just GIANT

However, they hardly have any detail

1. Unless you're right by a MAJOR city
2. You spend most of the time too high ip to see anything anyways

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai55d ago (Edited 55d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio55d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing55d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9255d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit55d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing55d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9255d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Report: Injustice 3 in Development at NetherRealm Studios

Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.

What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.

We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.

If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."