I remember I got Mercenaries as a giveaway game on my Xbox years ago. It's a fun screw around game for sure when open worlds were still kinda boring but didn't shackle you with realism.

On the thread of older games of open world chaos, Red Faction: Guerrilla is really fun too. I never tried the remake so if they woked it up or something then I wouldn't know.

I'm going to edit in a couple of my other old-time favorites that are less obvious than pretty much any FPS of the 90s:

Ys I and II are a lot of fun. They are very simple and there's loads of sequels if you still like them. It's possibly the longest running action RPG series in existence.

Shenmue I, and somewhat 2 but I think 1 is the best. It's clunky and janky but it's not the most action filled game anyway. Funny and serious game at the same time.

I remember I got Mercenaries as a giveaway game on my Xbox years ago. It's a fun screw around game for sure when open worlds were still kinda boring but didn't shackle you with realism.

On the thread of older games of open world chaos, Red Faction: Guerrilla is really fun too. I never tried the remake so if they woked it up or something then I wouldn't know.