The four games come with 45 minute DVDs too (.hack//Luminality). Already in the first game, .hack//infection you see much of what makes the anime what it is. Needless to say I was surprised the first time Helba showed up. With all other RPGs, its you controling the character or characters. With these games, your character is Kite. But unlike other RPGs, the other characters in the game know Kite isn't real. They know he is a game character, controlled by a player. It is actually the player controlling Kite that you 'RP' as. You can log out of the game 'The World' and read news, send and receive emails, ect. I've played my fair share of MMORPGs and I think they've done a good job of capturing things in both the anime and the games.