Just like a good book or movie, games allow us to visit places that we could never go to in real life or let us see what its like to live in a different era or with a different lifestyle. While all truly great games have the ability to immerse us in another world, open world sand box games like GTA or Assassins Creed succeed at making us feel like were in a different place and time like no other genre can, so its no surprise that open world action games have rapidly become one of gamings most popular genres.

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