What do you prefer in your shooter? Open or closed environment? Or both?

I guess examples of open environments would be Far Cry, Crysis, Half-Life 2, Soldier of Fortune 2, most World War II games, and so on.Closed environments would be Half-Life 1, Bioshock, Doom 3, Clive Barker's Undying, FEAR, and so on.Some of those games use both environments, although they are predominantly one direction.There's always fun in playing an open sandbox environment but I think I get caught up more in closed claustrophobic environments that add more suspense and engaging scripting. I think the best example is Half-Life1 vs. Half-Life 2. Even with the far superior graphics and abilities of Half-Life 2, I still prefer Half-Life 1 because it felt much more like a ''do anything to survive'' atmosphere trapped underground in the lab. Which do you prefer? Maybe you have a different opinion when playing your shooter in single-player or multi-player mode? What do you prefer in your shooter? Open or closed environment? Or both?
I ambattlefeild type of guy soI like big open maps where a huge fight can take place. Although a good close quaters shooter now and then isnt bad.What do you prefer in your shooter? Open or closed environment? Or both?
Open like crysis
[QUOTE=''Tehgiggles'']Open like crysis[/QUOTE]Yes. Or both, like Half-Life 2.
Half Life 2 dosnt have open enviroenments, it just gives you the illusion of something big.
[QUOTE=''mimic-Denmark'']Half Life 2 dosnt have open enviroenments, it just gives you the illusion of something big.[/QUOTE] With the exception of the Battlefield games, that's really all shooters. Even Crysis is pretty linear. Closed environments to me are games that are mostly set in an indoors theme.
[QUOTE=''mimic-Denmark'']Half Life 2 dosnt have open enviroenments, it just gives you the illusion of something big.[/QUOTE]Well.. kinda depends on what you mean with ''open'' then. I'd say Half-Life 2 has pretty open environments if you compare to F.E.A.R., which makes you run around in corridors all the time..
[QUOTE=''Tehgiggles'']Open like crysis[/QUOTE]
I prefere open environment
Isn't stalker a combination of both? Haven't played it yet, so I'm not sure. But yeah, variety is nice. It's fun to walk freely around in a forest, but I like linearity in ''corridor-games''. It's not fun to run around in boring repetitive closed environments, wondering where to go next.
open environment
What i think of when you say open is where you like in far cry or crysis or the battlefield games have a lot of freedom to go where ever you will, like in the gta games.
Both cause i enjoy ''good'' games.
But other then that i loved both doom 3 and far cry, so i like both enviroenments if they are done right.
Open environment, mainly for the free-roaming like of gameplay you get....
definitely bothi prefer WWII games