20 Best Open-World Video Games Of All Time

14. Sleeping Dogs

Sometimes you don't need the overblown budgetary bluster of GTA to deliver a solid open-world crime game, and in fact, Sleeping Dogs managed to excel despite its fairly generic game mechanics.

Combat was sculpted in the Arkham mould, seeing you introduce many foes' faces to walls as you broke the legs of all the rest. Driving is arcady, simply to encourage ploughing 120mph into corners before coming out the other side in one piece, and missions combined this hand-to-hand system with effectively simple shooting to righteous effect.

I can't fathom why the hell there hasn't been a Sleeping Dogs 2, but maybe if we keep shouting about it in articles and comment sections like these, it'll eventually happen.