Fallout 3

This is one of the games on top of my list, close to Oblivion. The weird thing about this game is that the next one in the series has a worse storyline and worse graphics. This game is about a universe that branched off of ours in the '50s, making a universe where the '50s were the model for the entire universe. There was no fighting in the government during the '50s, so the people in this universe were being repressed for a very long time until they finally just snapped and a nuclear war occurred. You play as a guy who was allegedly born in the vaults. Your dad escapes, and you follow in his tracks. I like this game because everything is so well put together and the fighting goes really smoothly, even in VATS mode, which is a mode that lets you zoom in on certain body parts and shoot them. Over all, one of the best games I've played yet.