Evolution of Open World Driving Games

Evolution of Open World Driving Games

1986 Turbo Esprit
1989 Vette
1990 Test Drive III: The Passion
1994 Quarantine
1997 Carmageddon
1998 Auto Destruct
1999 Crazy Taxi
1999 Midtown Madness
1999 Driver
2000 Midnight Club: Street Racing
2001 World's Scariest Police Chases
2001 The Simpsons: Road Rage
2001 Grand Theft Auto III
2002 Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven
2002 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
2002 The Getaway
2003 Midnight Club II
2003 The Simpsons: Hit & Run
2003 Need for Speed: Underground
2004 Driver 3
2004 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
2004 Need for Speed: Underground 2
2005 Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition
2005 L. A. Rush
2005 Need for Speed: Most Wanted
2006 Driver: Parallel Lines
2006 Test Drive Unlimited
2006 Need for Speed: Carbon
2008 Burnout Paradise
2008 Grand Theft Auto IV
2008 Midnight Club: Los Angeles
2009 The Godfather 2
2009 FUEL
2010 Mafia II
2010 Crash Time 4
2011 Test Drive Unlimited 2
2011 L.A. Noire
2011 Driver: San Francisco
2012 Sleeping Dogs
2012 Forza Horizon
2012 Need for Speed: Most Wanted
2013 BeamNG.drive
2013 Grand Theft Auto V
2014 Watch Dogs
2014 Forza Horizon 2
2014 The Crew
2015 Mad Max
2015 Need for Speed
2016 Forza Horizon 3
2016 City Car Driving
2016 Watch Dogs 2
2017 Need for Speed Payback
2018 The Crew 2
2018 Forza Horizon 4
2019 Days Gone
2019 Need For Speed Heat
2020 SnowRunner
2020 Cyberpunk 2077
2020 Watch Dogs: Legion
2021 Forza Horizon 5

Special thanks to World of Longplays (https://longplays.org) and RacingGameArchive (https://www.youtube.com/c/RacingGameArchive) for providing the gameplay footage

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People have been playing video games for decades. In that time, we’ve gone from moving a white line up and down to block a moving pixel, to participating in full-fledged, painstakingly rendered real-time battles with people all over the world. We help older gamers look back on how these experiences have changed throughout their lives, and new gamers to understand the broader context of the series they’re playing for the first time today.
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