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GamesRadar+ The 15 greatest JRPGs in Xbox history. Final Fantasy 15 is a stylish, smart reminder of an era when Japanese games dominated the industry, but sweeping JRPGs aren't new to Xbox. As proof, here's a fond look back over the best Japanese role-playing games ever to grace Microsoft consoles. 01: Blue Dragon. When Final Fantasy‘s creator, Hironobu Sakaguchi, and composer, Nobuo Uematsu, founded development studio Mistwalker back in 2004, JRPG fans awaited the birth of a franchise to rival the pair’s masterpiece. Debut game Blue Dragon didn’t deliver that exactly, but the Xbox 360 exclusive spawned manga, anime and two sequels, although they only appeared on the Nintendo DS. A very traditional take on the genre, Blue Dragon follows a band of kids and their giant blue shadow creatures on a quest to rid the world of killer purple clouds. Its three discs – which made it the first multi-DVD Xbox 360 game – positively burst with turn-based brilliance. 02: Lost Odyssey. Mistwalker’s second game dropped Blue Dragon’s chibi looks and opted for a more grown-up aesthetic. Another Xbox 360 exclusive, it feels like a mainline Final Fantasy game in all but name and remains the best JRPG of its generation. In its ‘dreams’ mechanic, Lost Odyssey moves you to tears as immortal hero Kaim recounts heart-breaking stories from 1,000 years as a mercenary; in audacious bad guy Gongora, it boasts one of the most memorable JRPG villains (an elite crowd); and in the voice work of comedy character Jansen, it boasts that rarest of things: an English language option that’s worth selecting. 03: Eternal Sonata. Known in Japan as Trusty Bell: Chopin’s Dream (the tweest game name on Xbox 360), Eternal Sonata is set in the dying mind of composer Frédéric Chopin as he succumbs to tuberculosis. Not a weird enough premise for you? The story, which naturally incorporates plenty of the composer’s best-known music, sees Chopin retreat into his dreams to aid a young girl with an incurable disease. He then teams up with a squad of youths to – no drumroll necessary for this shocking JRPG plot zinger – save the world. Curiously, Eternal Sonata also sticks a conductor’s baton up at the genre’s solo-only conventions by incorporating a two-player co-op battle mode. 04: Breath of Death 7: The Beginning. Such is the size and scope of JRPGs that they’re typically the domain of huge teams and big-name publishers. Yet the advent of 360’s Xbox Live Indie Games platform ushered in a new wave of developers, most notably two-man outfit Zeboyd Games. Though the pair’s Californian roots cast a big question mark over the status of the ‘J’ in JRPG, Breath of Death 7’s total adoration for the genre and sharp jokes that lovingly parody 8-bit series make it eligible for our list. It’s packed with both laughs and warmly familiar JRPG systems. Zeboyd built on their success with excellent follow-up Cthulhu Saves the World. 05: Tales of Vesperia. Although the mainline Tales series stretches back more than two decades, Xbox has played host to just one entry, yet that lone representative is widely accepted to be one of the top games in the series. You can thank its blend of likeable characters (none more so than Repede, an intelligent, pipe-smoking dog) and fast, fluid action battle systems that are more like fighting games than traditional RPG menu crawling (enhanced via Xbox Live with online leaderboards). The adventure of the roaming Vesperia guild became highly sought after in the west and went for high figures on eBay before finally making its way to Xbox 360’s digital store. 06: Resonance of Fate. Back in 2010, Star Ocean studio tri-Ace and publisher Sega prepared to throw their steampunk, strategy-action role-player into a head-to-head battle with Final Fantasy 13. Everybody thought they were crazy (perhaps justifiably, given the staggering deficit in sales) but Resonance of Fate ended up towering over its lofty Xbox 360 rival in terms of quality. Apt, given its setting: it all takes place on and around a giant tower constructed to protect citizens from poisonous gases. Its stars, armed to the eyeballs with uzis and grenades, duke it out in real-time run-and-gun fights that seem to have been ripped directly out of XCOM. 07: Final Fantasy 13-2. Talk about third time lucky. After Final Fantasy 11 and 13 failed to impress, it seemed Xbox 360 was cursed to host only the weakest entries in the series. Initially our third experience looked ominous, too: straight sequels are rare in Final Fantasy, good ones rarer still. Cue the surprise decision to follow protagonist Lightning’s relentlessly linear debut with a mind-bending JRPG that sees Serah and Noel take the lead for an experimental, non-linear plot; one you shape by leaping through time periods and parallel universes. Threequel Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13 spoiled the fun, but in 13-2 the subseries had its brief moment of glory. 08: The Last Remnant. During Xbox 360’s early years, JRPG specialists Square Enix had a bold idea: a more powerful console demanded a more ambitious scope. Why should players control individuals when they could instead take charge of entire groups of characters? And so The Last Remnant was born. Far (very far) from the finest JRPG to land on Xbox, it’s nevertheless one of the more fascinating entries thanks to its group-battle focus and the resulting shift in tactical nous needed to cope with the AI’s dithering actions during combat. Square Enix clearly saw potential in these mechanics – some were borrowed two years later for sister title Final Fantasy 13. Part 3D action game, part RPG, part top-down shooter, part 2D platformer and many more parts besides, Cavia’s bizarro hybrid can’t decide what it wants to be – but the OXM judges have looked favourably on its efforts and deemed there’s enough JRPG DNA on display to qualify for our list. The odd blend of gameplay styles doesn’t always work, but the story (leading man Nier and a magical talking book called Grimoire Weiss are on a quest to find a cure to save Nier’s dying daughter) is never less than excellent, culminating in an ending with one of the bravest twists any video game has ever dared pull. 10: Final Fantasy Type-0. Most players came for the free Final Fantasy 15: Episode Duscae demo bundled with the disc, but they stayed thanks to a gripping action slant that belied Type-0’s “spin-off” status. Not bad for an Xbox One remaster of a game that was previously just a Japanese-only PSP curio. Basic looks and bite-size missions betray its humble handheld origins, but the student-battling, action role-player (if it sounds X-Men-ish, it is – hero Ace wields a pack of deadly playing cards, just like Gambit) paints a surprisingly mature tale by Final Fantasy’s standards. The liberal chucking about of blood throughout this dark tale is rather shocking for the unprepared. 11: Phantasy Star Online Episodes 1 & 2. Sega’s Dreamcast may not have lived a long and fruitful life, but thanks to Sonic Team it helped pioneer an online revolution for console gaming. This internet-friendly take on Sega’s long-running Phantasy Star role-playing series paved the way for the likes of Final Fantasy 11 and even Destiny – though it still has one over Bungie’s space shooter thanks to offline and split-screen multiplayer modes in addition to its online link-ups. After Dreamcast took one critical hit too many, the first two episodes made the switch to the original Xbox in 2003, making it the first essential JRPG in Xbox’s history. 12: Shining in the Darkness. Long before Xbox was even a twinkle in Bill Gates’ eye, a short-lived battle of the JRPGs took place on warring consoles as Final Fantasy flew the flag of Nintendo (and later Sony) and Shining Force pledged allegiance to Sega. Xbox players can relive those heady days through Xbox 360’s Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection. While follow-ups Shining Force and Shining Force 2 better reflect traditional JRPGs, 1991’s first-person dungeon-crawler Shining in the Darkness is more important, not only for establishing the series, but for bringing Japanese role-players to the west. 13: Pier Solar and the Great Architects. Another JRPG with questionable “J” status thanks to its development by a small indie team from across the globe, Pier Solar has a strange background, starting out as a homebrew game for the Mega Drive in 2010 – no, that’s not a typo. The Xbox One port arrived in 2014, a year before the Dreamcast port (!), and delivered a 16-bit-inspired role-playing game about a trio of friends searching for a magical herb to cure the hero’s father. Mechanical niggles hold Pier Solar back from greatness, but the substantive shortcomings are more than made up for by its sublime, retro-worshipping style. 14: Metal Dungeon. You can picture the boardroom discussion. “What’s the biggest game on Xbox?” one suited man asks. “It’s Halo,” replies another. “Why’s it called that?” probes Mr Suit. “It’s quite clever actually,” chips in a plucky young upstart. “You see – it’s named after its setting.” “We’ll do the same thing with our new game and make millions!” exclaims Mr Suit. “So where’s our game set?” All eyes fall on the lead developer. “Um…” he utters. “A dungeon.” Fevered whispering breaks out in the room. “‘Dungeon’?! We can’t call it that,” frowns Mr Suit. “Can you give us more detail?” “Well,” comes the tentative reply. “It’s a… metal dungeon.” “JACKPOT!” everybody yells. 15: Infinite Undiscovery. Just look at that name. Infinite. Undiscovery. Like “free” and “lunch”, they’re a magical combination of words that should be chewed over [ er, I’m not convinced “undiscovery” is a word – Ed ]. What does it mean? Truly, that’s a question that you can ponder for as long as the game’s running time, but with little to split the likes of 360’s other JRPGs Star Ocean: The Last Hope, Enchanted Arms (from Dark Souls developer FromSoftware, no less) and MagnaCarta 2, the name seals it for tri-Ace’s 360-exclusive. Oh, and the real-time decision trees that morph the game’s story help it stand even further apart from the crowd. Recommended. 8 things to watch out for this week. Who are the GamesRadar+ team? 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We have some good news and some bad news regarding BioWare's two big properties. Microsoft shoots for a heavily-connected, online-driven future with the Xbox One, its latest piece of video game hardware. Shipping with the Kinect Sensor this time, the machine places a massive emphasis on non-gaming features. UFF Network. Friends & Affiliates. RPG Site and its content is Copyright © 2006-2018 UFF Network and its owners. A UFF Network Website. Powered by Mist Engine. Other content © its original creator. By using this site you are bound and abide by the user agreements. See legal page for details. Two New Japanese RPGs Exclusively Coming To Xbox One. One of the new character redesigns for "Stranger of Sword City" Photo: http://www.purexbox.com/ The Xbox One will be getting new Japanese roleplaying games (JRPGs) from developer Experience Inc. The games are “Stranger of Sword City” and “Students of Round 2,” though the latter is still a working title and can easily be replaced in the future. Fans can expect “Strangers of Sword City” in 2016 and “Students of Round 2” in 2017. Pure Xbox has confirmed that the games will be getting a Western release, so fans won’t have to make a petition to get the game. Both games will not be getting physical copies and will only be sold through Xbox Live. According to Experience Inc. executive Hajime Chikami, the move to digital was made since it’s hard to sell Xbox games in Japan and it’s easier to sell a digital game worldwide. “Stranger of Sword City” was actually released on the Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation Vita. However, this isn’t just a simple HD remake as the game will be getting brand new character designs, after Chikami took the advice of some publishers the company has worked with before. Fans who prefer the original character designs will be able to switch between them when it comes out, while the dungeon-crawling gameplay will probably remain the same. The second JRPG “Students of Round 2” still has some issues, as the company has been trying to nail the character designs for the final product. The gameplay will be that of a tactical RPG and might bear similarities with “Shining Force” or “Fire Emblem.” The excitement for these two Japanese RPGS has made some wonder if the Xbox will be the new JRPG console, Lazy Gamer reported. It’s reportedly a bold statement, but it’s also a doubtful one since the PlayStation 4 and 3 are still getting exclusive RPGs to this day, like the upcoming “Tales of Zesteria.” However, that seemingly won’t stop Microsoft. The company has been working hard on getting more Japanese audiences, and the fact that these two games are exclusively coming to the Xbox One is proof of that. The Xbox One will also be one of the homes for “Final Fantasy XV,” which is considered by many as one of the most anticipated games today. Best RPG Games: The greatest RPGs of all time. Role-playing games (RPGs) are the genre in which to invest if you want deep and rewarding experience with rich narratives and incredible character-building. The clue is in the title. Anything that promises ‘role-playing’ is, more often than not, going to take you on an epic journey. If you’ve got the hours to invest, there’s an experience out there waiting for you to get lost in it. With all that said and done, here are Trusted Reviews’ best RPGs. These are the big hitters we believe you should definitely make time to hunt down and play. And, once you’re done here, perhaps take a look at our picks of best PS4 games, best PC Games or best Xbox One games. Monster Hunter World. Score. Monster Hunter World is Capcom’s attempt to finally make what is a hugely successful and multi-million seller in Japan a big hit in the West, and wow have they created something special. This is one of the finest RPGs you’ll ever play with one of the most rewarding combat experiences to boot. Think of the Souls style challenge and payoff, throw in a bunch of giant creatures to slay, food to eat, traps to lay and beautiful worlds to explore and what’s not to love? This is a perfect starting point for newcomers to the series, with some of its previous entries’ intricacies streamlined for a far more entertaining game overall, too. 2 of 21. After years of waiting and countless delays, Persona 5 is finally here, and it’s bloody brilliant. Taking place in modern day Tokyo, you play as a high school student who soon finds himself part of The Phantom Thieves. As a member of this elite group you’ll infiltrate dungeons in pursuit of corrupt individual’s hearts. Of course, it isn’t all about dungeon crawling. You’ll also have to attend classes, hang out with friends and perhaps even get a part-time job. The depiction of Tokyo in Persona 5 is startlingly realistic, echoeing a metropolitan world you can’t help but lose yourself in. South Park: The Fractured But Whole. Score. Available on PS4, Xbox One and PC. Ubisoft and South Park Studios have evolved the mechanics of Stick of Truth to offer a deeper RPG experience, but wrap it in an even more outrageous South Park story. The boys are now playing super heroes, telling their very own ‘Civil War’, and throughout the game’s narrative you’ll see some of the most outrageous set pieces in the entire series lore, and that’s saying something for a show that has seen Satan lay with Saddam Hussein, Member Berries and the Satanic Christmas Critters. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Score. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild could be the best in the series yet. It faithfully reworks beloved franchise conventions while carving a new path that will no doubt influence open-world game design for years to come. Link awakens from a 100 year slumber and is immediately thrust into the land of Hyrule. You can literally go anywhere, so long as you aren’t killed along the way. This lack of hand-holding leads you on a journey of perfected self discovery. You’ll discover subtle environment cues and cleverly hidden mechanics through your own experimentation. It’s riveting, producing endless moments of jaw-dropping wonder as you investigate shrines and bravely stumble upon new challenges. Breath of the Wild also moves the series in a brave new direction with multiple additions we’ve never seen before. For the first time, voice acting is present, and it serves to create a narrative that warrants your personal investment. The world of Hyrule truly feels at risk, and so you’re compelled to delve into its cavalcade of irresistible secrets. NieR Automata. Score. The original NieR remains a cult classic that seldom receives the attention it deserves. It was flawed, but told a unique story across a sprawling world that could only be achieved in the gaming medium. It was also utterly mental, a trend that continues in the masterful NieR: Automata. Set in a post-apocalyptic future in a world occupied by murderous robots, you play as a pair of young androids tasked with eliminating this hostile threat. What begins as a basic action game quickly involves into a harrowing tale of love, humanity and loss that has some truly magical moments. Middle Earth: Shadow of War. Score. Warner Bros. doesn’t do things by halves, Shadow of War goes all out in making an incredibly action-packed RPG. With it’s brilliant Nemesis system evolved to feature the ability to send your own minions to battle, send threats to warchiefs and more, it’s an incredibly deep mechanic that could become a game in and of itself. Combat is still immensely satisfying, and now with even more upgrades and tech trees, RPG fans will have even more to dive into. Plus the game features an array of Xbox One X enhancements, so gamers picking up that console are in for an absolute treat for the eyes. Bloodborne. Score. The Souls series is an incredible and challenging experience that has become iconic in gaming. FromSoftware took this experience and refined it further to offer an astounding combat system to create the brilliant Bloodborne. A PS4-exclusive, Bloodborne sees players exploring a dark, gothic world that only becomes more despairing the further you venture. Full of epic boss battles, challenging enemies and brilliant moments, this is a must-buy for PS4 owners, and is arguably the pinnacle of the Souls series. Dragon Age: Origins. Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Mac. The Dragon Age series has become a highlight for the genre since it launched in 2009, and arguably its greatest entry is the first. Feeling very much like BioWare took the model for KOTOR but applied it to a fantasy setting, the gimmick here was that your origin story would play out differently depending which character you chose. Not only did this give it tremendous replay ability, but it affected how you were perceived throughout the fantasy world. That kind of approach meant Origins carried tremendous weight. The fact that the developer crafted a story filled with shocks and surprises made it better still. Furthermore, the cast of characters the original Dragon Age presented were second to none. Judging you constantly as they observed your every move, it was more than possible to downright resent some of them because of their constant nagging. That’s not easy to pull off, but BioWare did it near perfectly. Wasteland 2. Score. The much-anticipated sequel to the 1988 original that would go on to inspire the Fallout series, Wasteland 2 was one of Kickstarter’s early crowd-funding successes, raising $2,933,252 in cash. The game that shipped last year was not a disappointment to long-time fans of the original. Set in a post-apocalyptic North America, Wasteland 2 offers turn-based tactical role-playing with a branching storyline that is impacted by the player’s actions. Like all the best RPGs, the characters in the game drive things forward, with each member of your party having a distinct personality and reason for wanting to remain alive. The combat engine is refined and engaging, while the overhead perspective allows the game to remain faithful to the original – as well as the early Fallout titles. The fact that subsequent playthroughs can be radically different adds to the already considerable longevity of the title – it’s possible to play it many times over and experience a whole new story each time. Child of Light. Score. Platform: PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3, PS Vita, Wii U and PC. Ubisoft’s side-scrolling platform RPG adventure won the hearts and minds of gamers in 2014 with its unique visuals – powered by the insanely versatile UbiArt Framework engine – and its whimsical fantasy storyline. Taking inspiration from Japanese anime outfit Studio Ghibli and borrowing turn-based battle mechanics from the likes of Final Fantasy, this downloadable offering provides a very western take on Japanese RPG conventions. The rhyming dialogue is occasionally a little irritating, but this is practically the title’s only serious shortcoming. The combat is appealing, the storyline captivating and the visuals downright alluring. Child of Light looks like a painting in motion, and despite its lack of super-realistic 3D imagery it remains one of 2014’s most aesthetically powerful video games. Add in a cooperative multiplayer mode where one player controls a blue orb to aid the heroine and you’ve got an RPG romp that – while a little on the short side – offers staggering value for money and is a must-have for any fan of the genre. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Score. Platforms: Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, PC. For years Bethesda has been the master of world crafting, and the landscape found in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is its best yet. Ridiculously expansive and mapped out to feel like a real place, Skyrim – which itself is a part of the empire of Tamriel – exists in spite of you. It’s very easy to get lost in it because of how well put together everything is. This would all be for nought if there was nothing to do, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. The Elder Scrolls V almost has too much going on. From side-missions to random secrets you’ll stumble across by accident, you could dedicate your life to it for months should you fancy. That’s no bad thing… 12 of 21. Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3, PC. As mentioned, few developers construct environments as meticulously as Bethesda, and Fallout 3 is another great example why. Presenting a world that’s been destroyed by nuclear fallout and destruction, the Capital Wasteland is a horrible and depressing place to wander but that’s the whole point. Instead of trying to make Fallout 3 bright and appealing, the developer went in the other direction, embracing the horror such carnage would bring to society and presenting it without compromise. As such, it can be hard work on occasion, but that’s where the genius of it all comes into play. This is a role-playing game, after all, and Bethesda is so focused on what it wants to get across it holds nothing back. If you’ve ever wanted to experience what a post-apocalyptic planet Earth would be like, you simply will not find better than this. It’s a masterpiece. World of Warcraft. Score. Developer: Blizzard Entertainment. Aside from being a runaway success, World Of Warcraft for many was the game that introduced them to MMORPGs. It certainly didn’t reinvent the wheel, but it did take the concept of a persistent and constantly active world and refine it to the point that even non-gamers felt comfortable existing within its digital landscape. A large reason for this is how free Blizzard had made things. From the very start you could just run off in any direction you wanted to. While these early stages also asked you to kill a lot of boars, it wasn’t long before the level of expectation had completely changed. Not only were you adventuring into dungeons that felt like they’d fallen out of a JRR Tolkien novel, but you were encouraged to do it with friends. Gaming wasn’t just something to do in your basement. It could be a social endeavour, too. World Of Warcraft, to many, was what opened their eyes to such an idea. The fact at one point 12 million people were playing probably didn’t hurt either… Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Platforms: Nintendo GameCube. Developer: Intelligent Systems. Many RPGs pride themselves on presenting a dark and serious world to engage players. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door does not follow such thinking. Far more colourful and fun, Intelligent Systems’ approach to turning Mario into a role-playing star is entertaining from start to finish, topped off wonderfully thanks to the paper style that served as the game’s foundation. Tying in to both the story and gameplay, it allowed Paper Mario to stand out and be utterly unique. Not only was the world presented to you flat as a pancake, but that also meant you could take advantage of it, sliding through paper-thin cracks and abusing the fact you were light as a feather. The battle system is also a joy. Although turn-based, the use of timing is worked in excellently, meaning there’s always a way to inflict extra damage or defend yourself. Throw in a great and genuinely funny story, and it’s another success for the biggest star in all of games. Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. Score. Platform: PS4, Xbox One and PC. Diablo 3 is one of the biggest names in the RPG genre, and it should come as little surprise to learn that this expansion pack caused quite a stir when it launched last year. The pack brought with it new characters, an expanded storyline, fresh weapons, a level cap rise and a brand-new Adventure Mode where players could explore the game world and take on dungeons and quests at will. The expansion made its way to PC and consoles, but the big news was the launch of Reaper of Souls – as part of the Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls Ultimate Evil Edition – on next-generation systems. The PS4 and Xbox One versions dramatically improved over their PS3 and 360 counterparts, giving fans a viable excuse to live through the adventure all over again. With combined sales of over 20 million copies worldwide, Diablo 3 and its expansion pack are absolutely unavoidable if you consider yourself to be a follower of the role-playing world. Chances are, you’ve already bought and lived through these epic tales, but if not – there’s still ample time to rectify that oversight. Mass Effect 2. Score. Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3, PC. Mass Effect 2 starts with The Normandy – a ship that was an essential part of the original game – blowing up. It ends with a suicide mission where you’re more or less told the characters you’ve built up relationships with over 40-plus hours are probably going to die. If that’s not enough to entice you in, then nothing will do the job. Focusing on action from the off and barely letting up throughout, Mass Effect 2 is a superb offering from BioWare. Following the path of Commander Shepard who must assemble a team for a mission sure to end in death, this feels more like a space drama you’d watch on TV than a bunch of digital sprites powered by the Xbox 360 or PS3. Aside from gunplay that’s as good as any third-person shooter, the conversation system is excellent, asking you to be a silver-tongued devil as much as a weapons specialist. In short, it’s just very good, so go and play it. Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic. Platforms: Xbox, PC, Mac, iOS, Android. The most standout aspect of BioWare’s Knights Of The Old Republic is that you can enjoy it without even being a fan of Star Wars. While using the universe created by George Lucas as a backdrop makes it even more appealing, the real highlights here are the tremendous story, oddly addictive gameplay mechanics and a momentous twist that’s as mind-blowing now as it was back in 2003. It’s certainly different to what most are used to today, the battle system especially. Combat tasks you to assign different skills to your party and then more or less watch them fight as you look on. It sounds odd, but when you’re playing the game it just works and gets better with each ability you receive. On top of all this, there’s also the delightful treat that you can choose to embrace the path of a Jedi, or the path of a Sith. Meaning if you want to walk around and just chop everyone’s head off you mostly certainly can. When you can do that, you just know it’s going to be good… Chrono Trigger. Platforms: SNES, PlayStation, iOS, Android, DS. It’s rare to call a game ahead of its time, but when Chrono Trigger was released for the Super Nintendo in 1995 such calls were well and truly earned. It took a formula that was very bland and straightforward and turned it into a ‘just one more hour’ stroke of genius. It’s still considered one of the best games in history thanks to its multiple endings, engaging side-quests, original battle system and cast of characters who develop throughout. This translated into sales as well. Chrono Trigger went on to be the third best-selling game of the year, and demand for an updated version was so extreme a DS iteration was released in March 2003. The game was then ported to mobile phones in 2011. There’s a reason it’s still being treated this way over 20 years since it first came out, and the answer is simple: it really is that great. Final Fantasy VII. Platforms: PlayStation, PS4, iOS, Android PC. Often described as as one of the best games of all time, full stop, Final Fantasy VII is constantly featured in lists such as these and for good reason. While it’s hard to grasp without proper context, Square’s 1997 hit boasted visuals that were a country mile ahead of anything else on the PlayStation, a story that was told more like a film than a video game, and characters that resonated with its audience. People still talk about Cloud and Aerith today. It was Final Fantasy VII’s battle mechanic that won many over, however. An evolved system to one Square had been using for years, it was tweaked and polished to an almost perfect degree and inspired countless wannabes to embrace the idea of turn-based fighting. Easy to understand and yet tough to master, it would define the series for over a decade. There’s a reason Final Fantasy VII is always part of the conversation, and why the long-awaited remake was greenlit in 2015. It touched people’s lives, which is nothing short of impressive. Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn. Platforms: PC, Mac, Android, iOS. If you’re looking for an RPG that continually throws quest after quest at you until you can’t handle anymore content, Baldur’s Gate 2 is for you. Offering an almost obscene number of adventures to head out on, Shadows Of Amn also has a combat system that’s up to the challenge. Focusing on strategy and tactics, you have to meticulously plan out how you’re going to get through each and every fight, the whole test becoming even more satisfying as you continually evolve and expand your arsenal. If you want to see what all the fuss is about when it comes to table-top RPGs, Baldur’s Gate 2 is straight-up essential. It also plays to BioWare’s strengths in that it comes equipped with companions that you won’t soon forget. Reacting to your actions – which can both help and hinder at later stages – it adds a real layer of depth to proceedings that makes Shadows Of Amn far more than just another hack ‘n’ slash adventure. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Score. Platforms: Xbox One, PS4, PC. Developer: CD Projekt Red. While CD Projekt Red has been working on The Witcher franchise since 2007, it wasn’t until 2015 and the release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt that the wider world took notice. There’s a reason it did, too. Aside from the world itself, which is packed with things to do and looks amazing, the exploration elements, enemy design and character progression is incredibly well thought out and executed. And that’s before mentioning the deep customisation system. It was the combat that really allowed it to stand apart, though. A constant criticism of previous entries in the series were aimed at the confusing and frustrating battles you were asked to take part in, but that wasn’t the case at all in Wild Hunt. Satisfying and easy, the combat allowed The Witcher 3 to be far more accessible to a much larger audience, and that audience ate it up. Even the expansion The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine was considered one of the best games of 2016. 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Play as the Monster to use savage abilities and an animalistic sense to kill your human enemies, or choose one of four Hunter classes and team up to take down the beast on the planet Shear, where flora and fauna act as an adversary to man and Monster alike. Level up to unlock new Hunter or Monster characters as well as upgrades, skins, and perks. Earn your infamy on the leaderboards and become the apex predator. ARK: Survival of the Fittest. Added Under ACTION , SHOOTER | International | Open Beta: March 16, 2016. Info: ARK: Survival of the Fittest is a Multiplayer Online Survival Arena game from Studio Wildcard. Built for the burgeoning wild west of eSports competition, ARK: SotF challenges gamers to fight each other and the Jurassic environment that players loved in ARK: Survival Evolved. However, rather than a huge open world to survive in, this newly refactored game is an epic dinosaur survival arena with a continually shrinking “ring of death.” In the end, survivors are eventually pushed into an epic final showdown where only one “Tribe” will make it out alive. Atom Universe. Added Under CASUAL | International | Live: December 26, 2017. Info: Atom Universe is an evolutionary virtual-reality theme park offering fun rides, great mini-games, and places for players to chat, compete, have fun and interact. The initial launch of the game will include a main area and 3 mini-games to play, the shooting gallery, the mini-cart race, and the motor stunts challenge. Tantra Rumble. Added Under ACTION , STRATEGY | International | Closed Beta: TBA. Info: Tantra Rumble is a free-to-play multiplayer online action game developed by GameOlic. 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The game currently has over 24 playable characters, ranked and casual game modes, and online and local gameplay. Added Under SHOOTER , STRATEGY | International | Open Beta: September 16, 2016. Info: Paladins is a team-based online multiplayer FPS developed by Hi-Rez Studios. The game combines a rich fantasy setting with the fast action of a team-based first-person shooter. In addition to the core shooter experience, Paladins also offers deep strategy and in-match character progression through decks of collectible cards, which amplify and augment a character’s core set of abilities. Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade. Added Under SHOOTER , MMORPG | International | Live: March 17, 2017. Info: Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade is a Massively Online Third Person Shooter developed by Behaviour Interactive. Players select one of four factions of the 41st millennium and fight other players for control of a persistent world at war. 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Wikipedia defines it as a type of videogame level design where the player can freely roam through the world and is given considerable freedom to interact with objectives and the like. I decided against including the likes of Deus Ex and the Thief series, which despite the freedom they offer to the player, are strictly linear titles—at least in terms of exploration. Rather, the showcase you see before you is a collection of the best open world experiences in which you, the player, can explore freely and to your heart’s content while engaging in a myriad of activities unrelated to the “main story”, if there is one. The Witcher 3. Fans of western RPGs will no doubt have played at least one of the Witcher games. This series of Polish games based on the works of Andrzej Sapkowski has gained a lot of fans over the years, mainly thanks to its complex world and stories, incredible graphics and deep gameplay systems. The third and final installment in the series sees a much older Geralt of Rivia – one of the titular Witchers – dealing with the invasion of the Northern Kingdom by the Nilfgaard Empire and the otherworldy threat of the Wild Hunt, spectral riders who’ve plagued humankind for ages. Offering a massive open world, hours upon hours of story content and sidequests, tons of NPCS to interact with and monsters to hunt, a living economy that adapts to different locations and events and improved gameplay, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is looking like a worthy conclusion of the series. Just Cause 3. Just Cause 3 is the third game in the long-running Just Cause series of third-person action games. Offering a vast, open world setting on a fictional Mediterranean island known as Medici, series protagonist Rico Rodriguez returns, this time to oust a dictator named General Di Ravello from power. The game’s map size has been confirmed to be similar to that of Just Cause 2, offering 400 square miles of content–but with increased verticality. The game will be the biggest, baddest entry in the series to date. Infamous: Second Son. InFamous: Second Son is a game that deserves to be on this list for its faithful recreation of the city of Seattle. Not only is there the Space Needle, there’s tons of recognizable landmarks that ring true to the city’s vast landscape, as we presented in our InFamous: Second Son Easter Eggs list not too long ago. The city’s big, sprawling, and recreated in loving detail by the developers at Sucker Punch. What more could we ask for in an open world title? Platform: Xbox 360. There’s plenty of fun to be had in Crackdown outside of the game’s main narrative. With objectives and tasks that skirt the main story, players are free to roam throughout Pacific City. While the main story strictly limits you to playing the good guy, you can wreak havoc with your superpowers and face the wrath of your employers, or use those powers for good by going after the bad guys. Great responsibility may come with great power, but so does fun—and Crackdown offers it in huge amounts. Xenoblade Chronicles. Xenoblade Chronicles could be described as huge, complex, and a whole series of other adjectives—none of which would adequately describe everything it has to offer. This gem of a JRPG, limited to the Nintendo Wii, not only offers an intricate story set in a meticulously put-together world but also highly customizable characters that serve to invigorate the JRPG genre. The game invites players to explore its vast and open world with a focus on doing whatever the hell you want whenever you feel like it. JRPG fans couldn’t ask for a better, more immersive game. Platform: PC, PS3, 360, PS4, XO. The world is your racetrack in the Crew. Instead of a series of self-contained challenges, The Crew offers up an open world where players are free to roam along with race challenges for their various vehicles and terrain locations. Batman: Arkham City. Platform: PC, PS3 & Xbox 360. Not only does Batman: Arkham City surpass the likes of its genre-defining predecessor, Arkham Asylum, it also breaks new ground. The game does away with the zones and transitions of the previous game in favor of the truly wide open setting of Arkham City. Beyond progressing through the game’s main story, you can roam through the streets of Arkham City as either Batman or Catwoman, each with their own arsenal of gadgets and skills. There’s a variety of missions and open world sidequests that will keep you busy for dozens of hours. STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl. The atmosphere of STALKER is so thick you could cut it with a knife. And atmosphere is what defines STALKER. It’s a first person, survival-horror game set within the radioactive wasteland of Chernobyl, where men known as Stalkers eke out a dangerous living by retrieving strange, reality-defying artifacts. They aren’t alone in the wasteland, which is haunted by mutant horrors and an assortment of nightmarish creatures. This open-ended setting allows for players to perform a myriad of objectives for the wasteland’s human inhabitants while unraveling the mystery of Chernobyl. Platform: PC, PS3 & Xbox 360. Hardcore fans of the original Fallout may disagree, but the Wasteland has never been better realized than in Fallout 3. Like other Bethesda titles, Fallout 3 allows you to create your own adventure. It is set in a vast landscape that would be relentlessly bleak were it not for the remnants of civilization and the hope of survival. Fallout 3 is absorbing, immersive, and beautiful in its desolation. Saints Row 4. Platform: PC, PS3 & Xbox 360. Saints Row 4 is the open-world genre taken to its most logical conclusion. Which is to say that it’s entirely open and free for you to do whatever the hell it is you want to do without even the slightest boundary to keep you in check. Instead of forcing you to play through a story that keeps you roughly in check by means of rules enforced by cops and the like, the game actively encourages you to break the rules by subverting the rules of engagement that typify open world gaming experiences. You’re free to do what you like, when you like, and however you like. That is Saints Row 4, and it’s a blast. Platform: PC, PS3 & Xbox 360. Far Cry 3 has drawn comparisons to The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim in its encouragement of exploration, hunting, and crafting, the open world experience is actually quite different between the two. While Skyrim allows the player to take the entire map at their own pace, regardless of their participation in the main quest line, Far Cry 3 is designed for the player to balance their exploring with making progress in the game. However, you will find pockets of time to wander about as you please, and indulging in what Rook Island has to offer will greatly aid you in your quests. Far Cry 3 is proof that first person shooters can offer more in the way of exploration and world-creation beyond shooting people in corridors. Morrowind was a rare game for its time. Offering vast vistas and sublime greenery, Morrowind effortlessly captures the hearts and minds of players not only with the land, but with freedom it provided. It is a massive, open-ended game that allows you to do what you want, when you want, wherever you want. You could be a warrior fulfilling an ancient prophecy, or a sneak thief who seeks only to enrich himself through the misery of others—or perhaps even a little bit of both. The choice is yours to make in Morrowind. Just Cause 2. Platform: PC, PS3 & Xbox 360. Just Cause 2 sees the return of daredevil/action movie badass Rico Rodriguez in an open world adventure set in the diverse, tropical playground of Panau. Panau is a fictional South East Asian country where violence is rife and where the physics enables Rodriguez to perform death-defying stunts with the game’s wide assortment of vehicles, weapons, and trick-enabling gadgets. The game’s story isn’t big on its demands to your attention, allowing you to do whatever you please, whenever you please. Red Dead Redemption. Platform: PS3 & Xbox 360. Red Dead Redemption is the Old West made anew with the fiction of Rockstar Games, and it’s every bit as bleak and unforgiving as it was back in the olden days. It is within this unforgiving land that a man, John Marston, seeks redemption—not only for his life, but for his soul. And it is only within this land that such redemption is possible. Needless to say, the game’s atmosphere is second to none, and it is host not only to John Marston’s story and those of his counterparts, but to the greater battle between the old and the new—the stolid Old West and the march of Progress. Platform: PC & Xbox 360. Minecraft is ultimately our number one pick for the best open world videogame ever made based on the simple fact that the world in which it takes place is that of our own creation. It offers players the ability to build kingdoms, go on adventures, and craft narratives that far transcend anything created by a game developer. The world of Minecraft is a sandbox, and it’s ours to play in and to do as we like. The game is what you make of it. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Platform: PC, PS3 & Xbox 360. Skyrim is the fifth game in Bethesda’s ever popular series of role-playing games. Like its predecessors, Skyrim takes place in an open environment in which we’re given leave to explore the world as we see fit. While the world of Skyrim is charming and consistently engaging, it doesn’t simply tell us a story—it offers us instead a chance to weave our very own tale. Skyrim is interactive art at its finest. Grand Theft Auto 5. Platform: PS3, Xbox 360. Grand Theft Auto 5 is by and large one of the biggest open world titles ever conceived. It’s bigger than GTA 4 and Red Dead Redemption combined, and brings to life the city of Los Angeles in the fiction of Los Santos. Through years of hard-worn development and research, Rockstar has managed to create one of the most believable environments to ever grace the medium of video games. Due to the fact that the game is new, and because it wouldn’t be very fair to GTA 4 to call it a lesser title compared to GTA 5, we’re naming this one a tie for first place on our list of the best open world games of all time. Assassin’s Creed Black Flag. Platforms: PC, PS4, PS4, Wii U, 360, XO. The sixth main installment of the Assassin’s Creed series, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, takes players to the open seas. While following the main overall plot of the series with the fight between Assassins and the Templars, there’s a real joy in taking up the pirate life with Edward Kenway. Players will find that there is an emphasis on exploring the open waters, gathering a crew, sink opposing ships, and reap the rewards that come across their way. Outside of the sea life, players will also explore lands and fight using melee combat with stealthy takedowns. Platforms: PC, PS4, XO. The Fallout franchise has hit this list several times in the past and now with its most recent installment available in the marketplace, we can’t help but add Fallout 4. If you’re a fan of the franchise then it’s likely you’ve already picked up the latest release. However, if you’re completely new to the franchise, Fallout 4 still marks as a great first entry to the series. Set during the events of a nuclear war, players manage to escape into a vault, only to awaken hundreds of years into the future. What’s left of your world is nothing more than decay and outsiders trying to make it by in this new world. Each installment to the Fallout franchise manages to bring out an incredible wasteland to explore and Fallout 4 is no exception to that trend. You’ll come across old ruins, new structures, and a fleshed out cast of characters to meet along your journey. Dragon Age: Inquisition. Platforms: PC, PS3, PS4, 360, XO. The third major installment to the Dragon Age franchise, Dragon Age: Inquisition is an action role-playing video game where players take on the role of an Inquisitor who is on a grand journey to deal with the civil unrest within the continent of Thedas. While developers have set the game to be on the same continent of the past two installments, exploration for Dragon Age: Inquisition is rather massive in comparison. For instance, it’s been noted that the game features a map that is already five times larger than the setting of the first installment of the series. With all that said, you’ll want to set aside some time to really dive into the video game. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Platforms: PC, PS3, PS4, 360, XO. Taking place after the events of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, players can enjoy the last installment of the beloved franchise in which was directed under Hideo Kojima. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain follows Snake as he goes through a new mission that takes him to a Soviet-occupied Afghanistan territory. During the journey, Snake seeks his revenge on those who destroyed his forces during the ending of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, however, to do so, Snake will be exploring an open world environment. For fans of the franchise, this latest installment is seen to be a bit different in terms of the gameplay with this time around, developers have allowed players a little more freedom when it comes to completing objectives. Horizon Zero Dawn. Horizon Zero Dawn is the first IP developed by Guerrilla Games since their release of Killzone in 2004. This is an action role-playing video game title that is set a thousand years into the future. Mankind has mysteriously fallen, with cities only a shell of a once thriving society. Now only small tribal groups remain where giant mechanical beasts roam the world freely in charge. The plot revolves around a female hunter named Aloy who sets out on a journey to explore the open world, meet with other tribes, and potentially learn of the reason mankind fell to being with. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Platforms: Wii U, Nintendo Switch. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the nineteenth main installment to The Legend of Zelda franchise. This time around, players will be placed in a large open-world environment with the ability to play through the game’s dungeons in any order. Within The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, players will take on the role of Link after he awakens from a deep slumber that lasted a hundred years. A mysterious voice alerts link to reach a ruined Kingdom known as Hyrule where he will learn of Calamity Ganon, the antagonist who had previously destroyed Hyrule, though, during the process, he had trapped himself within the buried kingdom. Platforms: PC, PS4, PS4, 360, XO. Much like the previous installment, Far Cry 4 makes our list. This time around, players take on the role of Ajay Ghale, a young Kyrati-American who travels back to his home country of Kyrat, a fictional Himalayan country. During his travel, Ajay finds that this home country has been caught in a civil war that is controlled by a tyrant king, Pagan Min. A large portion of the game allows players to freely explore the Himalayan country and the wildlife that dwells within it. Furthermore, because the game has a few different storyline branches, gamers will likely replay the title a few times, offering a chance to explore a bit more of the world than before. Watch Dogs 2. Platforms: PC, PS4, XO. After the success Ubisoft had with their new IP Watch Dogs, a sequel was released back in 2016. This time around, players are taken to the San Francisco Bay Area to explore and cause havoc by hacking various terminals connecting to city functions or personal smartphones. Much of the same gameplay mechanics are present, though the developers did make a few overhauls such as driving. Click the next page button below to see our bonus picks! Top 5 Best Xbox One RPG Games List. Published Dec 29, 2014 at 1:12pm. So you got an Xbox One for Christmas. Awesome! Prepare to enjoy hundreds of hours of gaming on your new console, especially if you’re into role-playing games. Yes, the infamous RPG allows you to take escapism to the next level by pretending to be someone you’re not and acquire skills and abilities to become a powerful warrior, a cunning thief, a mystical wizard or really anything you can imagine. RPGs are magic, and if you’re into them (or just want to see what they’re all about), you can get started here. We’ve gathered five excellent RPGs available for the Xbox One right now. Read on to see which ones pique your interest. 1. Dragon Age: Inquisition. If you’re into RPGs and don’t own Dragon Age: Inquisition , you’d better have a good excuse. Not only is Inquisition Game Awards 2014’s game of the year, nor is it only one of BioWare’s best titles to date, but it’s a landmark product in the entire role-playing game sphere. In the latest Dragon Age , you play as an inquisitor who must form alliances and battle baddies in order to rid the world of evil. It sounds thin on paper, but Inquisition features a vast, rich world; deep, intricate characters; a thrilling story and some of the best role-playing mechanics around. This is worthy of every role-playing gamer’s attention. Price: $39.99 (33 percent off MSRP) Buy Dragon Age: Inquisition here. Read More From Heavy. ‘Dragon Age: Inquisition’ Wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards. 2. Child of Light. The first thing you’ll notice while playing Child of Light is undoubtedly its amazing graphics. The game’s watercolor-like visuals look like they were painted right onto your screen. Child of Light features unconventional characters and a unique story that defy genre standards while still paying them tribute, which is no easy feat. All of this aside, Child of Light still features robust and interesting combat mechanics that mix real-time and turn-based strategy into one fluid system that’s nothing short of satisfying. If you can get past the rhyming pentameter characters are forced to speak in, you’ll find an excellent game, even if its RPG elements aren’t as deep as they could be. Buy Child of Light here. Read More From Heavy. Top 10 Best Xbox One Games of 2014: The Heavy Power List. 3. Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition. Blizzard is a master when it comes to worldbuilding and creating role-playing fantasies, and that talent shines just as brightly with Diablo III . In this game, you play as one of a handful of classes and roam deserts, dungeons and hell itself in a quest to rid the planet of Diablo’s evil. As you kill literally thousands of enemies, you find powerful loot that feeds into the grind for more powerful characters and, well, more loot. It’s an addictive loop you and your friends can enjoy for dozens of hours, and the fun is multiplied considering couch co-op is a viable option. Price: $51.19 (15 percent off MSRP) Buy Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition here. Read More From Heavy. Top 10 Best New Upcoming Video Game Releases in 2015. Destiny may be a first-person shooter on the surface, but it’s a role-playing game deep down, and for that, it makes our list. You’ll spend hours shooting aliens and robots as your crawl around Bungie’s new sci-fi universe, but as you do so, you’ll level up your character, acquire new skills and find or purchase different weapons and armor. That sounds like an RPG to me! With its shared world experience, you’ll never be far from friends or strangers alike as you take on quests, giving the game a mini-MMO vibe. Price: $39.99 (33 percent off MSRP) Buy Destiny here. Read More From Heavy. Top 15 Best FPS Games: The Heavy Power List. 5. Costume Quest 2. The simplest game on our list has to be Costume Quest 2 , the adorable Halloween-themed game in which you and a party of trick-or-treaters travel through time to make the spooky holiday, which is illegal in the future, legal once more. For combat (and yes, there is fighting), you don different costumes to change your attacks and stats, which is an interesting way of handling a traditional role- or job-switching mechanic. The game is adorable and charming thanks to Double Fine’s excellent style, but people have a problem with the healing mechanics and stale ideas left in from the original game. Still, Costume Quest 2 is a great introductory RPG. Read More From Heavy. Top 5 Best New Xbox One Games: The Heavy Christmas List. 5 Comments. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. wtf destiny is not evn a rpg wtfff retards. That’s a depressing list. U r 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000% Correct. Xbox One's EA Access Could Offer Free Backwards-Compatible 360 Games. EA Access currently offers its members unlimited playtime with a selection of Xbox One games. Last updated by Chris Pereira on August 11, 2015 at 12:09PM. You are now subscribed. The Xbox One's recent announcement of backwards compatibility for Xbox 360 games could open a whole new slate of possibilities for EA Access' selection of free games. With Dragon Age: Inquisition having recently been released as a freebie for EA Access subscribers, someone recently asked the EA Access Twitter account if we might see Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age II, both Xbox 360 games, offered for free. "We're investigating adding backwards compatible EA games to EA Access in the future," EA said in response. "Stay tuned." EA Access is the Xbox One-only membership program which, along with early access and discounts on digital content, offers subscribers unlimited access to a selection of EA games. Presently, these are Xbox One games, but with Microsoft's announcement of backwards compatibility--available now for preview program members, and November for everyone else--Xbox 360 games now seem like a possibility. Microsoft itself is already leveraging backwards compatibility as an incentive for more than console sales; anyone who buys Gears of War: Ultimate Edition this year will receive versions of Gears of War 2, 3, and Judgment that can be played on Xbox One. It also plans on ensuring that all future Xbox 360 games given away through Games With Gold can be played on Xbox One. Making a 360 game compatible with Xbox One doesn't require any technical effort on the part of its publisher; it simply has to give Microsoft the thumbs-up. And we know EA isn't averse to doing so, as the original Mass Effect was the game used to demonstrate backwards compatibility during Microsoft's E3 press conference. EA Access is available for $5 per month or $30 per year. If EA's Xbox 360 games do come to EA Access' Vault, which ones do you want to see? Let us know in the comments. PS4/Xbox One Version of PC MMO WildStar "Seems to Make a Lot of Sense" Bringing the game to console could help expand the game's business opportunity, Carbine says. Last updated by Eddie Makuch on October 2, 2015 at 11:51AM. You are now subscribed. WildStar could become the latest PC MMO to make the jump to consoles. In an interview with GameSpot, Carbine Studios product director Mike Donatelli said bringing the game to consoles like the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One "seems to make a lot of sense," though he didn't outright confirm that it's happening. "We have seen many MMOs who have made that transition to console being successful," he said. "So I think it would be safe to say, without saying too much, that, for any successful MMO who is looking to expand their business, looking at the console seems to make a lot of sense." This is not confirmation that WildStar will come to console, though it's also not the first time that Carbine has talked about it. In September 2013, before the game was even released, executive producer Jeremy Gaffney told Digital Spy that Carbine would consider console ports after the PC edition shipped. "Maybe someday we'll do it, and we've been approached on it, but we believe in doing your home platform first and then branch out," Gaffney explained at the time about bringing WildStar to console. "Just keep it simple where you can, and do one thing great, and if it's great there, it'll grow." WildStar launched on PC in June 2014 with a subscription model. However, just months later, Carbine made the decision to re-launch the game as a free-to-play title; this transition eventually happened just this week. For lots more on WildStar's business model swap, as well as the release of the game's biggest-ever update, WildStar: Reloaded, read GameSpot's in-depth interview with Carbine. Would you be interested in playing WildStar on console? Let us know in the comments below.