I like Spudz\'s idea... I\'ll just bet we\'re not very far from such a thing. It would be cool to have a game where you can pick certain characters that will interact in a story line and all be interconnected in some way, while each person maintains the freedom to interact with a common environment in whatever way he/she chooses. Vehicles, aircraft, weapons, complex buildings and mazes, indoor, outdoor.... all of it. My only fear is that I\'ll get too immersed in the virtual world and then basically be nothing in the real one!