Action Video Games31
Action games. Wide category of games that require reflex, accuracy and agility. It includes, among other things, shooters (e.g. Call of Duty and Battlefield series) and action-adventure games (Tomb Raider). First and third person perspective (FPP/TPP) is used. In most cases we are playing as a character who has to defeat some enemies and reach a specific point. We can use a wide range of weapons, including pistols, rocket launchers, swords, knives and like. Action-adventure is a particular category within action games genre. Such titles put less emphasis on action and combat, focusing more on story, exploration and puzzles.
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Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror
8.0 Game Score
Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror is a tactical first person shooter prepared by Kamehan studio. The title is a commercial version of the popular Unreal: Tournament fashion. The player takes on the role of a terrorist or a special police unit officer and carries out a number of missions, depending on the choice made. The gameplay was designed mainly for multiplayer clashes, although the creators have also foreseen the possibility of competing with computer artificial intelligence.
Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico
8.0 Game Score
Total Overdose is an expanded action/TPP game, referring to the atmosphere and performance of the Grand Theft Auto series (the main character is a heartwood with a dark past) and the first part of the film hit "Desperado". (a plot centred around the Latin American community).
Conflict: Vietnam
8.0 Game Score
Conflict: Vietnam is another product from the series, the two preceding parts of which dealt with the war in the Persian Gulf region - a reference to the first American Iraqi operation (early 1990s), codenamed the Desert Storm. This time the action was moved further east and deeper into the past, because the plot represents the most intensive phase (1966-1969) of the United States military intervention in Vietnam.
Advent Rising
8.0 Game Score
An action game with a third person's perspective, based on a script written by Orson Scott Cardo, a well-known science fiction writer. The player takes on the role of a person endowed with a wide range of vestibular powers, such as supernormal skills - kinetic impact, ability to raise objects with willpower, energy squeezing and others.
Guilty Gear Isuka
8.0 Game Score
Another installment in the 2D fighting game for PlayStation and arcades, developed by Arc System Works. Guilty Gear Isuka allows you to participate in a grand fighting tournament, in which human martial arts masters and magical bio-warriors called “Gears” compete with each other. You can choose from 23 varied characters, including three brand new ones, each of them having distinct standard and combo attacks. There are also more game modes available, allowing for e.g.
Armed & Dangerous
8.0 Game Score
Another project of Planet Moon Studios employees, creators of an extraordinary game Giants: Citizen Kabuto. It is a position combining a lot of dynamic action with strategic elements, realized in full three-dimensional graphic design.
Deep Black
8.0 Game Score
Deep Black: Reloaded is a third party action game (TPP) created by Biart's development team. The story takes players to a chaotic world in the near future, where there is a fierce battle for influence, raw materials and control over technologies. The player directs the actions of a member of an elite military unit, an expert in underwater combat.
Blacklight: Tango Down
8.0 Game Score
A tactical action game set in the near future. We play the role of a special military unit, which moves to stop the rebellious Colonel CIA. The heart of the game, however, is primarily an extensive network mode. The whole was created on the basis of the Unreal 3.0 engine.
Medal of Honor: Heroes 2
8.0 Game Score
The next installment of the popular shooting, in which the action is observed from the perspective of the first person. We play the role of an American intelligence officer, performing missions in the back of the enemy.
Fuse
8.0 Game Score
Four-player action game in which we play the role of crazy mercenaries and save humanity from extermination. Each of the four heroes has different skills and equipment. The whole was developed by Insomniac Games studio, i.e. authors of Ratchet & Clank and Resistance series.
Predator: Concrete Jungle
8.0 Game Score
The protagonist of "Predator: Concrete Jungle" is the title alien, who came to Earth twice: in 1930 and 2030. Beaten by landowners in the 1930s, the alien returns to the blue planet after a hundred years with the intention of avenging the humiliating defeat.
Tenchu: Shadow Assassins
8.0 Game Score
The next part of the cycle about the adventures of ninja warriors prepared by the authors of the original Tenchu. Here we have a counterpoint over the two heroes known from previous editions - Rikimaru and Ayame.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent
8.0 Game Score
The fourth part of the hit series of third-person stealth games by Ubisoft, whose main character is a secret government agent Sam Fisher. In the game, he has undergone a distinct transformation, turning into a smooth-shaven villain serving a 20-year sentence. But it's all an effect of deliberate mystification, thanks to which our protagonist tries to infiltrate the ranks of a dangerous terrorist network and work it out from the inside.
Alice: Madness Returns
8.0 Game Score
A third-person action game with elements of 3D platformer and adventure game, designed by American McGee and his Spice Horse studio. Similarly to the previous work of that developer, i.e. American McGee’s Alice, also this game is a reinterpretation of a novel by Lewis Carroll. After ten years of dealing with catatonic schizophrenia caused by the tragic death of her parents, the eponymous heroine has a chance of getting back to a normal life.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
8.0 Game Score
A spin-off to the bestselling Grand Theft Auto series, at first developed for Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable handhelds and later converted to mobile devices as well. The story takes place in Liberty City, a place well known to the fans of the series. As Huang Lee, member of a Chinese criminal group, the player is trying to prove his worth, avenge the death of his father, and reclaim a valuable sword that for centuries was the symbol of his family’s power.
Call of Duty: Black Ops
8.0 Game Score
A first-person shooter, the seventh installment in the Call of Duty series, and a start of a new sub-series. The game was developed by studio Treyarch, the team responsible for Call of Duty: World at War. The story campaign of Call of Duty: Black Ops is presented in the form of flashbacks suffered by the main protagonist, Alex Mason. Having previously worked for the CIA as a field operative, in his memories Mason returns to the age of Cold War.
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
8.0 Game Score
Giants: Citizen Kabuto is a crazy action game combining a shooter with light RTS elements in the form of raw material management and building construction. The action takes place on an alien planet, on which three sides of the war are waged: a woman resembling a mermaid, a giant monster named Kabuto, and space adventurers who had to land in this land in an emergency.
NieR Gestalt
8.0 Game Score
NieR Gestalt is a third-person action game developed by the popular Japanese company Square Enix. The story is set in a world overrun by monstrous creatures and a virus called Black Scrawl. As the titular Nier, we set out to find a cure for the infected daughter.
Warriors Orochi
8.0 Game Score
Warriors Orochi is a brawl, dedicated mainly to lovers of Far Eastern martial arts from ancient China and Japan. Omega Force Studio has included in this production the most important elements from the series of Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
8.0 Game Score
Another tactical action game promoted by Tom Clancy's name. This time its heroes are members of the elite unit of soldiers "The Ghosts", who can be found everywhere where there is armed conflict.
Dead Island
8.0 Game Score
A first person survival-horror action game with cRPG elements. Dead Island was developed by Techland Studio, together with the Deep Silver company. The story features a tropical island, cut off from the world, where a zombie epidemic spreads out. Few remaining people are trying to survive and find a way to escape the living dead. Gameplay in Dead Island is built around exploration, completing quests, crafting useful items, and fighting undead opponents.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus
8.0 Game Score
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 is a continuation of a virtual beat game, treating the adventures of a quartet of mutated turtles, eliminating all manifestations of evil with the help of Far Eastern martial arts. This program was created on the basis of the second series of cartoons about warlike reptiles.
Aliens vs Predator Classic 2000
8.0 Game Score
Return of classic Aliens vs. Predator in a version adapted to newer computers. The production includes basic campaigns and additional missions from the later re-edition of the game. In single player mode, each side of the conflict (People, Predators and Aliens) receives more than 10 scenarios. There were also extended options of multi-player games.
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Predator
8.0 Game Score
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Predator is a Tactical Third-Person View (TPP) tactical action game designed for the technical capabilities of the PlayStation Portable handheld console. The player takes control of the title unit of "Ghosts" and takes part in a dangerous military operation in Sri Lanka.