Mount & Blade: Warband

One of the best historical games on the market.
Set in the fantasy world of Calradia, this game is far from being pure fantasy, being an extremely realistic depiction of life in medieval times. The game allows you to train a private army, become a lord under a King, start your own kingdom, running castles, villages and market towns, or just go from village to village razing innocents' homes to the ground.
There are many lords and counts in the various factions of Calradia, and each of them has a relationship with you, this can be changed by doing tasks for him, or joining him in battle. When you have enough renown, from winning battles and tournaments, you can swear an oath of allegiance to a faction's king, and gain control of a village, collecting taxes, and you can join in battles against the faction's enemies.
The RPG elements are fantastic, including skill points, weapon skills, HP etc. your followers can also be levelled up through combat.

You can expand your army by recruiting farmers from nearby villages, training them up to become archers, knights and spearmen. You can also, for a price, pay mercenaries with superior skills to join you. Once in battle, there is a fun first person shooter full of swords, horse-riding and archery.
Although the graphics are, to be honest, terrible (Launched in 2010), this is still an amazing game to get.
The possibilities are, to use a common phrase, endless, but in this, they truly are. You can even win a lady's hand in marriage to gain political standing. How many other first person shooter sandbox RPG strategy games do you know of where you can marry someone? I know one, it's called Mount & Blade: Warband.

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