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Some open world games depict places in real life. It's much more convenient than creating fictional settings because no one can call them “inaccurate”. Players love being able to move around in real-life settings.

There are more and more scandals in the gaming industry, including integrating spyware in the game. Always keep your eyes open.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3282544/security/gamers-is-red-shell-spyware-being-used-in-the-games-you-play.html

https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/20/17485762/red-shell-spyware-pc-games-controversy-steam

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/red-shell-spyware-controversy

Here are some of these games which score on Metacritic is above 75. If you are interested, you can pay a visit to these sites to find more information:

https://www.wikipedia.org/

https://www.fandom.com/topics/games (the community is on the right side of the search result)

https://www.metacritic.com/game

https://store.steampowered.com/

https://www.reddit.com/

https://www.twitch.tv/

https://www.youtube.com/

https://www.moddb.com/

https://www.nexusmods.com/

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Grand Theft Auto

Locations:

• New York City (III, Liberty City Stories, IV, Chinatown Wars);
• Miami (Vice City, Vice City Stories);
• Los Angeles (San Andreas, V, Online);
• San Francisco (San Andreas);
• Las Vegas (San Andreas)

GTAIII is the originator of the current open world concept. 7 years later, the legendary GTAIV was born, and 5 years later, another miracle, GTAV.

In this franchise, you play as some bad guys. You can enjoy the story lines as well as exploring the cities.

https://www.rockstargames.com/grandtheftauto/

https://www.gta5-mods.com/

Red Dead Redemption

Location: American frontier (1, 2)

There are several great Western movies, but only one great Western game franchise.

https://www.rockstargames.com/reddeadredemption/

http://www.rdr2mod.com/

Yakuza (Ryū ga Gotoku)

Locations:

• Kabukichō, Tokyo (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 0, Kiwami, 6, Kiwami 2);
• Dōtonbori, Osaka (2, 5, 0, Kiwami 2);
• Shinsekai, Osaka (2);
• Okinawa (3);
• Nakasu, Fukuoka (5);
• Susukino, Sapporo (5);
• Sakae, Nagoya (5);
• Onomichi, Hiroshima (6)

You can play as a gangster in Yakuza. Of course not the whole Tokyo, Tokyo is too big.

Yakuza 5 is just like GTASA, takes place in multiple cities.

http://yakuza.sega.com/en/

http://ryu-ga-gotoku.com/

L.A. Noire

Location: Los Angeles

It is in 1947. You play as a police officer, a detective.

https://www.rockstargames.com/games/info/lanoire

Sleeping Dogs

Location: Hong Kong

It was originally “True Crime: Hong Kong” and thankfully it is not another True Crime game.

There are only 4 wards of Hong Kong because of the hardware limitation.

In this game, you play as an undercover police officer.

https://square-enix-games.com/en_US/news/sleeping-dogs

Ghost of Tsushima

Location: Tsushima

It is about historical Mongolian invasion on Japan.

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/ghost-of-tsushima-ps4/

Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Location: Kingdom of Bohemia

It is historically accurate, so accurate that some people can't accept.

https://www.kingdomcomerpg.com/

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