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==Definition== The term "open world" doesn't have a clear definition. But the most common usage of "open world" refers to a game that features free-roaming outdoor exploration across a large game world that is fully-scaled and continuous. The term "open world" is rarely used in reference to games where exploration is limited to indoor [[dungeon]]s, or games with outdoor [[overworld]] maps that are not to scale. ===Criteria=== The definition of an open world generally, but not always includes most of the following criteria: * A free-roaming environment with limited restrictions on where the player can go, in contrast to more linear games with heavier restrictions on where the player can go. * An outdoor landscape, which accounts for the majority of the game's environment, in contrast to games where most of the environment is indoors, such as a building, dungeon or cave. * A [[List of largest game worlds|large world]], with an environment that at least has the size of a large city or island, in contrast to environments limited to a smaller locale such as a building, dungeon or small town. * A fully-scaled world, which is graphically represented with a fairly realistic scale relative to the [[player character]] or vehicle, and with a constant, uniform, continuous scale. This is in contrast to an [[overworld]] that is represented with a highly unrealistic scale, and often with differing scales for different environments. * On-foot traversal, where a world can be mostly traversed on foot, in contrast to worlds that are mostly traversed in vehicles. * A [[Real-time|real-time]] world, where the world is in motion regardless of what the player does, such as a world rendered in real-time, enemies moving around independently of the player, or a [[persistent world]] with day-night cycles. * [[Three-dimensional|3D graphics]], with the world rendered as a real-time 3D environment (particularly a [[Three-dimensional|polygonal 3D]] environment) that the player can explore in a [[First-person perspective video games|first]]/[[Third-person perspective video games|third-person]] perspective.
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