10 Worst Open-World Games Of All Time

7. The Crew

Racing games and the open world genre don't go as hand in hand as you might first think. While one giant racetrack in theory could make for an interesting driving experience, the majority of titles, from Test Drive to Burnout, have proven that in practice, this approach can go terribly wrong.

2015's The Crew, though, was the game set up to right these wrongs. Attempting to craft a virtual recreation of the entirety of mainland America, the open world the developers managed to stitch together was admittedly impressive in terms of its scope, but at the same time lost the detail needed to make the USA backdrop more than just a blur in the rearview mirror.

Likewise, the ambitious racer got out on the wrong foot thanks to its online-only gameplay which, predictably, rendered it virtually unplayable at launch. Throw in intrusive side missions that didn't make the most of the sandbox, on top of racing mechanics that didn't come close to matching the finesse of other driving games, and The Crew was an underwhelming failure, despite the great central idea at the heart of it.