3 addicting co-op games with open world and story that can be played through over the holidays
In between the holidays, many players enjoy their well-deserved vacation. Are you looking for some cool co-op titles that you can play through with your friends during this time, MeinMMO has 3 exciting titles for you here.
What kind of list is that? A multiplayer mode makes games better – many readers of MeinMMO will surely see it that way too. But between endless PvP battles and lengthy MMORPG content, you sometimes want something shorter that can be played through relatively quickly.
For this we present you here 3 strong co-op games that offer you an open world and whose main story you can play through in under 25 hours. All titles are available on PlayStation, Xbox and PC, but without crossplay functionality.
The Division 2 story on every corner
What is the story about? The story behind The Division 2 depicts a pandemic-ridden world with areas where the government has completely collapsed.
As part of the special unit “The Division” you help to free the former capital of the USA, Washington DC, from anarchist forces, to improve the lives of the residents and to thwart the plans of the obligatory villains.
To do this, you explore the run-down city with its many sights and slowly understand the story behind the downfall of the city and the immoral machinations of its former and current rulers.
The Division 2 tells its story not only through the completely German set-to-music dialogues and quest series. A lot also happens through “environmental storytelling”. Around every corner, in every little alley, the environment tells you a story and draws you deeper and deeper into a world full of tragedy, but also heroism.
How does it play? The Division 2 is a thrid-person tactical shooter with a great open world and a lot of co-op. Once you’ve completed the tutorial mission, you can play together immediately and make the area unsafe … or rather “safe again”.
You create your division agent in a character editor and that won’t be the last role-play feature. Because you improve your agent via a level system and specialize your character with class-like “specialists” who can greatly influence your play style.
There is also an inventory system and loot. Lots of loot.
So you build fire-breathing tanks with explosive proximity mines, highly specialized snipers with target-seeking stun grenades or unscrupulous drone masters who terrorize enemies with their gadgets.
We’ll include a gameplay trailer for you so that you can get an idea of how the game is played in the shooter:
How long do we need to play through? According to “howlongtobeat” players needed an average of 24 hours to play through the main campaign (via howlongtobeat.com).
Is it worth continuing to play? The Division 2 is a great loot shooter and after completing the campaign and reaching the max level, there will be a lot more content available to you. If you want more from The Division 2, you can continue the adventure for a long time.
There is also a big story DLC called “Warlords of New Yorks”, but you have to buy it. Here you even get a second open world with locations in New York.
Once you’ve seen everything, the motivation comes from the tedious perfecting of your equipment and the joint co-op experience with your friends. As a co-op highlight there are 2 large and difficult raids, for which 8 players are required.
Borderlands 3 – The shooter on funny drugs
What is the story about? Wealth, honor, and madness – not necessarily in that order.
In search of one of the legendary “chambers” you are aptly on the road as an exterminator and shoot your way through the craziest opponents with the craziest weapons and meet the craziest characters.
Not enough superlatives yet? Borderlands offers you one of the craziest stories, with the craziest characters and the most unnecessary violence. Ok, that’s enough, I’ll see for myself.
In Borderlands 3 you stray all over the galaxy full of diverse planets, whose bloodthirsty population is also looking for the “chambers”. You get a lot of support from well-known Borderlands characters and countless stupid sayings pounded on the head.
A direct contrast to the serious story of The Division 2, which is more thought-provoking, while Borderlands strongly recommends that you think less about what you are up to now.
How does it play? Borderlands 3 is a first-person shooter that also comes with role-play components – including loot and a class system.
So at the start you choose one of 4 characters that form your classes. There is a beastmaster who lets his nasty creature loose on opponents or a siren who uses her superhuman abilities to fire mindless enemies out of the picture.
The classes can then be specialized via skill trees, which you expand over time along with your level.
The “somewhat” unusual weapons also provide variety. There are guns talking to you. Others fire hamburgers. The next one, little guns pop out of the gun and grow legs so they can attack opponents.
If you fancy a story with black humor, crazy character builds and a seemingly endless selection of weapons, then let Borderlands 3 seduce you.
Here we are again including a gameplay trailer so that you can convince yourself of the Borderlands madness:
How long do we need to play through? According to “howlongtobeat” players needed an average of 22 hours to play through the main campaign (via howlongtobeat.com).
Is it worth continuing to play? If you like the wacky humor, there is a lot to discover in the big world of Boderlands 3 in addition to the main campaign. In addition, the game now offers 4 story DLCs, each of which gives you an additional 5 hours of main quests.
Once you’ve seen everything, your motivation can quickly decline. It is true that there are also enthusiasts who spend a long time working on their builds in order to solve the most difficult challenges in the game. But if you haven’t had enough, you can also use Borderlands 2 or one of the other predecessors.
The Forest – For brave rangers
What is the story about? After a plane crash you find yourself on a green peninsula. You and your friends fight for bare survival and are looking for your son, who was kidnapped from the plane wreck.
Of the 3 suggestions here in the list, The Forest is the least story-driven and doesn’t offer you a linear storyline. Rather, it’s about exploring and the slowly rising certainty that something is wrong on this island.
On your way across the island you will explore dark caves, find new tools and secure your base against the horrors of the island that attack you at night.
Little by little you will find more and more clues about the background to these horrors and what the hell happened to your son.
How does it play? The Forest is a rather small survival title from the first person view, but it wants you to run into a lot of mechanics of the genre.
Hunger, thirst, cold and illness make your life difficult. The already mentioned nightly visit of disturbing creatures who want to remove your laboriously cobbled together hiding place from the neighborhood comes relatively quickly.
To counter this, you will find helpful materials and items on your tours around the island, which you can convert into chic log cabins or monster-destroying Molotov cocktails using the quite extensive crafting system.
At night the atmosphere gets pretty gloomy and you are often at a disadvantage compared to your opponents. But if you don’t let yourself be dissuaded from the search for your boy, The Forest is a dark masterpiece with an interesting and emotional story.
For a first impression, we recommend the PS4 launch trailer at the time:
How long do we need to play through? According to “howlongtobeat” players needed an average of 15 hours to play through the main campaign (via howlongtobeat.com).
Is it worth continuing to play? Depending on how thorough you were with your exploration, there is little left to discover after the story ends. You can still collect a lot of little clues about the background, but by and large, The Forest is over after the story.
However, a second part is already on its way – you can find all information about Sons of the Forest here.
An exciting story in a successful open world offers the potential for countless hours together full of action and adventure.
If you are looking for more ways to share co-op experiences with your friends, you will find many options for your gaming team in our large co-op list: Top 25 of the best co-op games in 2021 for PC, PS5, Xbox and Switch – WE have chosen
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