Sandbox Games

An action adventure journalism game where you uncover a conspiracy by political elites to falsify a war to justify fascist totalitarian government using propaganda. Your photos expose the truth about what is going on. Armed with her camera, dai-jo staff, and unflinching resolve, Jade plunges into a sinister web to untangle the truth and restore justice to her planet Hyllis. But as she earns the trust of her beleaguered people, Jade discovers that sometimes, in order to find the truth, you must look beyond good and evil.

The Shenmue games merit close study. Shenmue features an immersive city of autonomous characters and systems with intricately detailed interactivity. The world is open-ended to allow the player freedom to “live”.

Grand Theft Auto is a compellingly immersive city simulation from the street level. It provides a seamless cityscape without loading screens from the perspective of cars, boats and aircraft. It provides flat but convincing-looking virtual people to populate the city and drive cars for the player to steal. Playing Grand Theft Auto feels real. Driving its streets gives the impression that anything is possible within this virtual reality. GTA also had a mission where you used a camera to get compromising pictures of a politician with a prostitute.