Popular title Urban Chaos has been re-released on Steam. If you owned a PlayStation, PC or Dreamcast at the turn of the millennium, you'll probably at least remember its striking lead character and its dark "urban jungle" setting.
Take a look at the many games that allowed free-roaming and exploring vast locations. Here are the best PS1 open-world games.
"Unheard of" is not what comes to mind when I see Grand Theft Auto, Driver & Soul Reaver in the list!
I picked that title because I haven't seen anyone tackle the small number of open-world games on the PS1. Same for Metroidvanias on the PS2, which should come soon.
Everyone I've ever spoken to about it has never heard of it. It was waaaay ahead if its time.
I never thought of those games as open-world games, but now that I think back on it, those games did have quite huge worlds for their time.
Ken McKown writes: The From A to Z series lets our editors go back and take a look at games from past generations that are classics, overlooked gems, or just titles they remember fondly. The idea behind this is to pick five games from each letter of the alphabet, once a week to showcase. This delivers 26 weeks and 130 games to talk about. Hopefully it sparks some conversation, and of course plenty of memories.
Our first series will focus on Sony’s first entry into the console business, the PlayStation.
Let’s continue with the letters “U,V, and W”.
