Top 7 Best Open World Superhero Games
7 Best Open World Superhero Games
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Who wouldn’t want to be a superhero? Welcome to Mojoplays, and for this video we’ll be looking at the best Open World Superhero Games.
"The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction” (2005)
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You’re the Hulk. You Smash. What more do you want? This absolute festival of mayhem lets you charge, leap and batter your way through New York City with an awesome feeling of momentum. Of course it’s easy to build up momentum when you can plow straight through anything that gets in your way. Traffic? Smash. Helicopters? Smash. Giant Robots? You guessed it! Smash. And if you run out of things to smash in this neighbourhood, just leap your way on over town to smash something else. The action never stops. This is a great game for anyone with a lot of anger to work through. Provided you can keep from crushing the controller with your huge green thumbs.
“Spider-Man 2” (2004)
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The video game adaptation of Spider-Man 2 is legendary for showing the rest of the world how to do a superhero game right. Not only did it pioneer the open-world format as a way to recreate the feeling of a whole city needing your help, it made traveling around it fun. A lot of open world games get boring, demanding you spend the majority of your time wandering around looking for something to do. But it turns out when you get around by web-slinging, the journey’s as much fun as the destination. Add in a bunch of side missions that challenge you to hone your web-slinging skills and you’ve got a game that defined superhero adaptations for years to come.
“Saints Row IV” (2013)
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The Saints Row series started out a lot like Grand Theft Auto. Then things got weird. Case in point: Saints’ Row 4. You play as a former gang leader and newly-elected president who finds themselves uploaded into a matrix-style simulation after an Alien invasion. Okay, yes, that’s insane, but where’s the superhero part? Well, hacking the simulation gives you superpowers, obviously. You can outrun sports cars, throw energy blasts from your hands and, yes, leap tall buildings at a single bound. Plus use wild weapons from black hole launchers to dubstep guns. Look, this may not be a well-balanced game or… even make any sense. But for sheer ludicrous power factor, there’s nothing else like it.
“Batman: Arkham Knight” (2015)
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Arkham Knight took everything you loved about the existing games in the Arkham franchise, scattered it across the entire city of Gotham and handed you a Batmobile to explore it all in. What’s not to love? Arkham Knight expands on the sleuth-and-slug gameplay of its predecessors with a serious graphical upgrade, vehicular combat and a host of supporting characters from the beloved -- Nightwing -- to the obscure -- Man-Bat. The only thing that might be working against this epic is its sheer scale. With puzzles and challenges spread out over a bigger gameworld, it feels less tightly designed than, say, Arkham City, but these shortcomings don’t stop it from being a game that you should absolutely check out.
“Infamous 2” (2011)
If there was an award for coolest original powers, the early games in the Infamous franchise would win it. Rather than hand you control of an existing superhero, Sucker Punch built their own powerset from scratch. With all the electric powers from its sequel, InFamous 2 added ice and -- if you’re willing to turn villain -- fire powers to the list. But as cool as it is to freeze enemies and throw around electromagnetic force in a fight, the game really shines in the way you can use Cole’s powers to navigate the urban environment. Leaping off rooftops to hover to the ground or skate along charged wires turned the game’s New Orleans-inspired cityscape into your own urban playground in a way you just can’t get anywhere else.
“Spider-Man” (2018)
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More than one game has tried to cash in on the legacy of Spider-Man 2 over the years with… let’s say varying success. But nothing had ever quite lived up to the mythical reputation of that 2002 classic. Until Spider-Man on PS4. With silky smooth web-slinging, incredible graphics and a startlingly detailed recreation of Manhattan, Spider-Man set a new standard for immersion in a super-hero game. Bored of beating up Mister Negative’s goons? Why not take a break and do some photography. Take a selfie with an adoring spider-fan. Check out the game’s simulated social media feed. And when you’re ready, dig back into a fresh, fast and funny storyline featuring all your favourite Spider-Man rogues.
“Batman: Arkham City” (2011)
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The gameworld is smaller. There’s no Batmobile. The graphics aren’t as technically advanced. So why pick Arkham City over its sequel? Simple. Polish. Where Arkham Knight takes a “bigger is better” approach to its cityscape, Arkham City packs a limited area with secrets, puzzles and lore to discover. There being less to explore just makes it feel like there’s something worth finding under every rock you turn over. Getting around the city with only your grapnel and wings means you have to think in three dimensions at all times, not just drive on the streets. And the tightly plotted story does things with Joker and Batman’s relationship even the movies and comics overlook.
