At the moment I'm playing The Last of Us, a survival horror classic released towards the end of a console generation and I am, to all intents and purposes playing someone else's story. But, and there's a huge but, I can pause the story and poke around in each area of the game as much as I like. There's reward for doing it, it's almost a necessity in a post zombie apocalypse, but I could forget my meanderings if I chose to and plough forward. But for me they bring the world of Joel and Ellie, as they struggle across America, to life in a way a film can't do. The better the story telling gets in games (and it is getting better) the more appealing they become and the worlds they sit within are becoming more and more tangible. Games also tend to last considerably longer than a lonely trip to Cineworld.
