Fallout 3

An immense, action-packed reinvention of the RPG genre, Fallout 3 gave you a real sense of time as you shaped your character from birth in the safety of the Vault, and then of enormous space as you sent her/him out into the vast, post-apocalyptic wastes as an adult. More than that, there was just so much to do – you’d spend a while clearing some buildings of fire ants, take out a super mutant stronghold, and then look out of the window and it’d be September. 2008 / PC, PS3, Xbox 360