Fallout!
What have I been doing with my time the last few days? I've been playing Fallout 3, and I swear. It's like they built this game just for me. Watch through all five of the videos in this series, and you'll see what I mean. Or, better yet, watch this one specifically:
You can play it like a regular first-person shooter, but where's the fun in that? My preferred method is to get a high-powered weapon, like an assault rifle or sniper rifle, sneak up on enemies, and then use V.A.T.S: the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System. It stops time, zooms in on the enemy/enemies, and allows you to target attacks at specific body parts. Crippling legs slows them down, for instance. If you have enough action points, you can queue up several attacks against multiple foes, so you can get one guy with a head shot, take out the leg of someone who's trying to escape, and so forth. It's a vicious kind of fun, but that's not even the best part. The best part, kids, is the Fat Man: the portable mini-nuke launcher in the last combat scene, where that enormous super mutant gets toasted. Aim one of these suckers at a single target in a group of foes, and ba-boom. Especially fun to use on super mutants rampaging through the streets of downtown DC.
In the series of videos up there, one of the things he does is blow up a town called Megaton. If any of you actually buy this game, I highly suggest you do not do this. I've gotten some really cool stuff by not eradicating a Mad Max-style shantytown built into the walls of an unexploded nuclear bomb's crater.
You can trash 'em if you want to, but there is a very legitimate reason not to, which I will not spoil.
But for those of you who've played one of the earlier Fallout games: yes, that's Dogmeat (not the Dogmeat, of course); yes, that's the Brotherhood of Steel; and yes, that was an Enclave vertibird.