A weird kind.
As you may know by the fact I wrote a review of fallout 3, i do in fact love the game.
But everytime i play it i become obsessed with finding everywhere and collecting all the bobbleheads.
But i've noticed i've created a constant routine - wake up at 4 or 5 am, wander out the house into megaton (the town where you live) and fast travel somewhere. Then scavenge till dark or do missions till they are done and return to megaton to flog all the loot, and sleep again till 4 or 5 am.
Now i know thats sad, but i don't play the game everyday, but there haven't been many games that make me obsessed like that.
But here's perhaps the 5 that have:
1. Fallout 3 (PS3)
2. Runescape (Online PC)
3. GTA San Andreas (PS2)
4. Urban Chaos (Psone)
5. Tony Hawks : underground (PS2)
All 5 allow virtually unlimited time for exploration. Fallout you can scavange forever, Runescape your constantly levelling up, San Andreas has a huge map to explore in different ways, Urban chaos allows you to take your own route to do a mission and missions inside of a mission and tony hawks gives you a map with options to do the missions.
I believe the freedom to be able to choose what you do, where you go, what you wear and how you travel is showing how close we can get to virtual reality. (Now by that i don't mean goblins and mutants are real, but the choices in the game are up to you - you have free will).
A lot of games have set missions to do and thats it with maybe a bonus mode afterwards, but it isn't as a appealing as having free will and choosing what you do.
