5 Open-World Games to Play This Weekend (August 22 - August 24)

While the gaming industry as a whole seems to have shifted away from the open-world craze that gripped the 6th and 7th generations, the open-world framework remains incredibly popular in a handful of genres and noteworthy franchises. Ultimately, it's been a positive change in paradigms that has resulted in open-world games mostly being a case of quality over quantity, where the opposite used to be true. As the work week comes to a close and gives way to the weekend, revisiting one of the greater games to use the open-world framework, or perhaps discovering one for the first time, is a great way to spend any free hours you might have dedicated to gaming.