Posted by Deconstrukt I started playing GTA V at the start of the Covid lockdown. On my first night, I managed to climb three cranes, one bridge, explore subway tunnels, even found a goddamn drain to explore. Also got to do some freight-hopping and tons of rooftops. This game is definitely the closest you can get to urban exploration: it's an open-world map in an urban context, after all. Edit: fixed typos
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i am an Xbox One gamer, gamer tag "RedSamurai33"
i have been playing GTA V/GTA V Online for almost 7 years. In fact, i took a night off work the day the game itself dropped and the day the online world premiered, much to the ridicule of the unimaginative bastards i worked with... even now, there is always something to do. BUT, should you wander into an Online lobby, beware, there are people like me who's sole purpose at this point is to murder other players and merely bolster their kill-death ratio. So tread carefully. There is a way to glitch your own lobby to avoid that scenario. Also, unfortunately, money is power in that game. Just a friendly reminder...
Another good game with exploration subtext is Ubisoft's "Tom Clancy's The Division" and "Division 2". Sewers to explore, empty buildings... the game universe is set after a genetically engineered small pox virus has been let loose on the world (starting in New York City) on Black Friday. The first game is set in New York, the second in Washington DC, but has expansion packs that take place at the Washington National, The Pentagon, and other places. The most recent expansion, Warlords Of New York, brings the game back to Manhattan.
Another game I had played for a bit was PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds... it is a battle royale game, but i loved the flavor of it... dropped in an abandoned island world that reeks of eastern Europe, explore houses and bunkers. Defend yourself against dickheads bent on your destruction. It was actually a lot of fun, but broken game mechanics and a developer that really wasn't up to the task of fixing the issues soured me on it. I still have it installed on my console, but i play it rarely. One grumble about it was i had wished that there was an simple exploration mode where a player could wander around the world exploring without have to fear getting blasted by another player.
And finally, another really great game with that flavor is the Metro Series... As a fan of the book series, I was delighted when the games were announced and then released. They were very well done. Metro, Metro Last Light and Metro Exodus... they were released by Deep Silver. I have been kind of neglecting my Metro quest as I have been hooked by the aforementioned Division/Division 2 game. The games, like the books, are set in the Moscow Metro years after a nuclear war obliterated the world. You don't have to read the books to know what is going on, but it adds to the experience. Metro Exodus takes the experience out of underground and into the world. Definitely worth a look.
Anyways, everyone always says the Fallout series, but honestly, Fallout bored the stuffing out of me. I might give it a revisit at some point as the pandemic continues into it's second wave.