Four Worlds You Must Visit

Video games provide seemingly infinite virtual spaces to explore. Here are four that you absolutely must see for yourself.

Video games have always aimed to create a world separate from our own, with experiences gamers couldn’t get anywhere else. As technology has raced forward with time, these worlds have become more realistic, more believable, and at the same time, more fantastic than ever. In the early days, the games gave us a framework to unleash the player’s imagination, creating a theater of the mind. Today, we can visually experience the worlds exactly how the developers intend us to, right down to the most minute of details.

Even in a near-infinite sea of video games and their accompanying worlds, there are some that simply stand head and shoulders above the rest. No matter what you do in these worlds, wandering around soaking in the details or blasting them to bits with deadly weapons, they are some of the most incredible examples of what the art-form has to offer. Once you’re finished reading, do yourself a favor and track down these games to experience the worlds yourself as words alone can’t do them justice.

from Bioshock

This one will be at the top of many people’s lists, and for good reason, as it is one of the most imaginative, wondrous, and terrifying game worlds ever created.

The city of Rapture is the brainchild of Andrew Ryan, who created the city at the bottom of the ocean as a way to break free from the shackles placed on him by society. Rapture is a city where anything is possible. Where scientists, workers, and industrialists are all free to do what they want, keep what they make, without being told what to do. At least, that was Ryan’s idealized vision for the city when it is constructed in 1946. By the time your character arrives as the result of a plane crash, the reality is something darker and much more terrifying.

As you slowly see the city come into focus through an entanglement of seaweed and schools of fish, your descent into Rapture is…

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