A Brief History of Open World Gaming
Fork Party writes: "The PS2 era gave us a lot of things; cheap DVD players, a competitor to rival Nintendo that they haven’t stomped into the ground yet, and a return to the three console competition we hadn’t seen since the 16-bit era. But probably one of the most influential things it gave us was “Grand Theft Auto III”. And no, not because you could pay a hooker to regenerate your health or run over pedestrians. We could already do that."
