10 Incredible Open-Worlds WASTED On Disappointing Video Games

1. Manhattan - The Division

As mentioned previously, there have been plenty of video games that have used New York City as their setting. From every single Spider-Man title ever made, to Grand Theft Auto to Crysis 3, The Big Apple has been imagined and reimagined countless times in video game form, but never as well as in The Division.

The dystopian shooter might have had uninspired gameplay, but its desolate version of NYC, abandoned one Black Friday and still decked out in Christmas lights and decorations, is evocatively haunting. There's something so creepy about the city being so desolate - not destroyed or decaying like in other post-apocalyptic media - simply empty.

It helped that the developers managed a 1:1 recreation of Manhattan itself, which really captured the scale of the location. It's not that the map simply felt large, it was more that the player was made to feel small, as they were surrounded by these windings streets and impossibly tall skyscrapers.

It was easily the best part of that original game, and it's a shame it's been chucked out entirely for the sequel, especially because you could have brought in other boroughs of NYC to make the game world even bigger.