Probably the nearest you are going to get to role playing without having a bunch of bearded missfits sitting around a table covered in dice, charts and lead figures. A truly open environemnt to explore and pretty much an endless game. Very good, stable and fun. A hint, if you are only on a dial up modem install the 2D version. It runs fine then. The 3D lags to death on anything under a broadband set-up whatever your graphics card. Buy it. Live it.