Poll: Which Sandbox game is really good?/best?

[ssj4raditz]

Fallout 3 takes it for me. But, I've just gotten into Just Cause 2, and that game is bonkers and so much fun.

 

[Omikron009]

Fallout 3 a million times over. It's my most favouritest game ever.

 

[Bonkekook]

If you mean pure sandbox(I mean, third person, etc) that isn't considered an RPG, then I've had the most fun with Saints Row 2. I think it had everything a Sandbox game should.

I voted Fallout 3, because I had the most fun with that out of all the games listed. However, I believe RPGs should have a little bit of leeway in them, and don't really consider them sandbox games.

 

[MellowFellow]

I say Fallout 3, because there is a lot to do in the capital wasteland. I will say that I liked DAO, but I don't consider it to be a sandbox game. Just my opinion.

 

[Audioave10]

Fallout 3 yes, but Stalker games are fairly open too. They point you in a direction to complete the game but are also open. That's what side-quests are for. Oblivion was very
open too. Your list has many of my favorites.

 

[Distazo]

Assassin's Creed for me (both of them). The Freerunning system has completely ruined all other sandbox transportation for me. However, there is not a lot to do in the sandboxes except kill people so its a personal preference.

 

[SimuLord]

My money's on Mount and Blade. Now THAT is a sandbox. A monster of a sandbox, where it is literally whatever you want it to be.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Fall Out 3, Oblivion, Saints Row 2, get them all cause you can't go wrong with them.

 

[Rathy]

Fallout 3 for me. That was the best 50 hours of no objective playing of a game in a week I've ever had.

I'd say Dragon Age is the best on the list, but its not really a sandbox game at all. So I will not count it for purposes of this poll.

 

[silverleaf81]

Two of those games aren't sandbox games.

Dragon Age is a straight action-RPG, and Borderlands is way too linear to be a sandbox (even though I love the game to death)

Honestly, my vote is for as Yahtzee put "the mass murder simulator" Prototype.

Ok, Apparently Dragon Age is...

 

[Bat Vader]

My money's on Mount and Blade. Now THAT is a sandbox. A monster of a sandbox, where it is literally whatever you want it to be.

I want to get Mount & Blade so badly but I don't have a credit card so I can't get it off steam.

On Topic: In my opinion Fallout 3, Oblivion, GTA IV, and Mercenaries 1 are pretty good sand box games.

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

Well to vote for the 'Other' category, this may be bizarrely unconventional but Spider-Man 2 is the only open sandbox game I've ever even stuck with long enough to beat, as well as the only one I ever come back to (actually I beat Ultimate Spider-Man as well, but 2 is better). That's because web-slinging really is THAT much fun and New York is a pretty big place even when you can move around at 100 miles per hour.

 

[SimuLord]

I want to get Mount & Blade so badly but I don't have a credit card so I can't get it off steam.

If I had thirty bucks I'd gift it to you, but unfortunately I'm a starving college student and so can't gift games to strangers I found on the Internet. Maybe when I'm a rich CPA someday...

 

[ottenni]

I still haven gotten Fallout 3 (i will one day, i promise!) so for me its the Elder Scrolls games. The amount of little detail that they put into the lands that they create is amazing. In Morrowind especially where nearly every nook and cranny has a story.

 

[Jandau]

Dragon Age is no more a sandbox game than it is an FPS. borderlands ins't much of sandbox game either, it just has a lot of empty space to drive in.

 

[Bat Vader]

I want to get Mount & Blade so badly but I don't have a credit card so I can't get it off steam.

If I had thirty bucks I'd gift it to you, but unfortunately I'm a starving college student and so can't gift games to strangers I found on the Internet. Maybe when I'm a rich CPA someday...

Thank you, sir. Yes, we college students need to save up all the money we can for food.

I would like for Steam to maybe release money cards like how PSN has the $20.00 and $50.00 dollar cards. That way people without credit cards could still get games. I think Steam also uses pay-pal as well so I might need to look into that option too.

 

[Rossmallo]

Where's Prototype on this list? D:

 

[SonicKoala]

I would pick Fallout 3, but that doesn't strike me as a "sandbox" - when I think sandbox, I think GTA, and San Andreas is the best of the bunch.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Spider-man 2. It wins out over Fallout 3 because it is far more awesome to swing around town and leap (moderately) tall buildings in a single bound then to shot hundreds of the same three raiders while walking through largely uninteresting desert between fun segments and exploration. I think I just put more of a premium on freedom in a sand-box then on options to cause mayhem.

Well to vote for the 'Other' category, this may be bizarrely unconventional but Spider-Man 2 is the only open sandbox game I've ever even stuck with long enough to beat, as well as the only one I ever come back to (actually I beat Ultimate Spider-Man as well, but 2 is better). That's because web-slinging really is THAT much fun and New York is a pretty big place even when you can move around at 100 miles per hour.

Hi-five!