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Lifespan

Some games are great even if they're over in an afternoon, but we do love a good epic, and we're not just talking about multiplayer gaming sessions. In 2007 our top 10 was dominated by short but sweet gameplay experiences, but there were a couple of deep games that kept us going for weeks. Mass Effect stretched to around the 30 hour mark if you completed all the side quests, Super Mario Galaxy provided months of entertainment for players who wanted to get every last star, and The Orange Box packed in more value than most other shooters on the list combined. Still, 2007 seemed a little on the short side.

This year appears to be far more epic. GTA 4 is a mammoth game, Spore could well consume entire lives, LittleBigPlanet could be the only game you'll need to own for months and then we come to the three Fs. FarCry 2, if we believe the developers, will be a truly epic game. First-person shooters rarely extend beyond the 10-hour mark, but it seems as though this one will be the GTA of shooters. According to the devs there won't be a demo because there'd be no way for them to make it less than eight hours in length. Fallout 3 is also shaping up to be a monstrous game. If it's not longer than 20 hours we'll eat the freeze dried food we had stored for when the world ended. And then there's Fable 2, a game Peter Molyneux himself has said will take around 50 hours to play through if you see all the game has to offer. That's certainly more than an afternoon's worth of game.

Finally on to page six to see which year has the greatest strength in depth.

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