
Open-world fare goes either way, so there's a veritable ton to sift through. According to the San Andreas Multiplayer website, over 3,760 SAMP servers are running and between 25,000 and 40,000 players are concurrently online every 24 hours. Some are wholly original titles others are long-awaited ports of classics. Updated on Januby Quinton O'Connor: The mobile gaming market isn't exactly going anywhere, and new games are being added all the time. Of course, to save yourself from the trouble of weeding out which of those games best represent the open-world genre in mobile, then take a vacation to these top contenders' worlds.

In that regard, mobile phones are very much a fully-fledged gaming platform.

How viable a platform is for gaming is sometimes measured by how fun its open-world games are. That's how far gaming has come from the 2D days of Pong. Put it in a mobile phone and that world easily fits in the palm of your hand or your pocket. It's a living and breathing world in a digital space. Sometimes, you just have to sit back and take in the bigger picture. San Andreas Multiplayer (SA:MP) is a modification for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas which turns it into a multiplayer game. We often take digital technology so much for granted that open-world games have become underappreciated these days.
