Talking Point How Do You Feel About Linear Vs. Open World Games On Xbox
GTA & Mafia providing very different experiences this gen.
It's been another busy week of gaming news, with publisher 2K going ham on fresh information for both GTA 6 and Mafia: The Old Country; two series' that have long shared plenty of similarities. However, the two third-person action games are going in very different directions with their next entries — one huge open world and one linear story — and we wanted to gauge opinion on how you feel about the two styles here in 2025.
Last generation, open world games really seemed to come into their own - especially with Ubisoft doing its thing. The extra power afforded by Xbox One and PS4, along with changing trends that veered towards people spending more time with games, led to a bit of an explosion in the amount of open world titles we started to see. There were mixed results last-gen, but there were also some cracking open worlds that really took advantage of the new hardware on offer.
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