10 Best Open-World Video Games You Didn't Play

4. The Saboteur

In 2009, Pandemic Studios released The Saboteur, an open-world action-adventure set in Paris in the 1940s.

The game casts you as an Irishman fighting for a French resistance group in World War II, though you engage by sneaking about and sabotaging behind the scenes instead of through all-out combat. The intriguing art style is also gorgeous as the open world is initially coated in a black and white filter which falls away revealing the natural colours beneath once you liberate each of Paris’ boroughs and its surroundings. Beyond its compelling unique qualities that set it apart in the genre, The Saboteur also delivers super enjoyable moment-to-moment gameplay.

Despite all that, it didn’t see any wild commercial or critical success so a lot of players would have passed it by, but hey, at least it’s on your radar now.