Omikron009 said:
Assassin's Creed, Crackdown, and Red Faction Guerrilla. An open world game where you play as a superpowered stealth assassin in a huge modern city full of fairly realistic AI people, and everything is fully destructible. My dream game. It would also be an RPG. With perks. God I love perks.
Thats not what I was going to say, but that sounds really, really great. Im putting that up there on my list.
Id go with
1) Saints Row 2 style character customization, mission progression, hostage taking, varied world (yeah its a city, but its a city with an airport, chinatown, japantown, docks, power plant, prison island, college suburbs, shopping district, etc. Its varied.) and open world freedom, where there was just slightly more to do in this open world than run around killing people in various ways, and your character could be whoever he wanted to be.
2) Mass Effect 2 for its characters, different planets/locales, AI and cinematic style, and story telling ability. And also its cover system and combat. Not as good as Gears 2, but still it works very well and the abilities that you have are balanced and useful. In my experience, at least.
3) Alpha Protocol's way of reacting to your previous missions and decisions, changing the game in not huge, but significant ways through the game depending on what you do in which missions first.
Put all that together, and you have a sandbox game amazing in its glory. A massive game with multiple sandbox environments and you need to gain control of each one, scinematics, NPCS, and writing on par with a Bioware RPG, excellent character and ally customization to go into those cutscenes, and in the end, you get to watch as the world(s) aorund you change(s) depending on what you do, when you do it, and in what order. That would be awesome.
Too bad I didnt have room for Red Faction Guerillas destructability....
