Action Video Games34
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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Bendy and the Dark Revival
Action 15 November 2022
The second part of the FPP survival horror series launched in 2017. In Bendy and the Dark Revival, we play Audrey, who is trapped in an animation studio overrun by terrifying monsters.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
Action 10 November 2023
A first-person shooter and a sequel to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 from 2022. The game features a story campaign, multiplayer and zombie modes, as well as new maps to the free-to-play game CoD: Warzone 2.
AK-xolotl
Action 14 September 2023
A bullet hell shooter with roguelike elements, starring bloodthristy axolotls. AK-xolotl has us traversing a procedurally generated land of animals, mowing down hordes of enemies, wielding a wide roster of diverse weaponry.
Wizard with a Gun
Action 16 October 2023
Isometric survival game with roguelike elements, allowing you to play solo or in the company of up to four players. In Wizard with a Gun we play as mages with guns, who travel the fantastic world and face many dangers.
The House of the Dead 2: Remake
Action 2024
The House of the Dead 2: Remake is the return of the second installment of SEGA's rail shooter series by Polish companies Forever Entertainment and MegaPixel Studio. Once again, we play as special agents who have to face the zombie plague.
X-Morph: Defense
Action 30 August 2017
Developed by an independent studio called Exor, X-Morph: Defense is an original twin-stick shooter with tower defense elements. The game shows an unpleasant vision of the future, in which the Earth has fallen victim to an alien invasion. Instead of defending the Blue Planet, the player assumes control over an Alien ship with an objective to face waves of human adversaries and defend enormous devices extracting resources and altering the Earth’s atmosphere.
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
Action 27 February 2024
A shooter in which we find ourselves in a dark fantasy world, in order to get rid of the remaining guardians of the Old World and hordes of horrifying enemies as a stranger. WRATH: Aeon of Ruin is the work of an experienced 3D Realms team and is based on the Quake Engine.
Killing Floor 2
Action 18 November 2016
A sequel to the cooperative online shooter - Killing Floor - which came out in 2009 as a commercial version of a standalone Unreal Tournament 2004 modification. The sequel was prepared by the creators of the original – Tripwire Interactive, also known for another popular game modification, Red Orchestra.
Bad Boys II
Action 27 February 2004
A virtual adaptation of a cinematic image under the same title, with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in the leading roles. During the actual game, we lead one of the two main heroes policemen from a drug squad in the U.S. city of Miami.
Dead Rising 2: Off The Record
Action 11 October 2011
Standalone expansion for Dead Rising 2 - open-world third-person action game with survival horror elements, created by Capcom in cooperation with Blue Castle Games studio. In this supplement photojournalist Frank West known from the first part of the series returns. Armed with his camera he goes to the town Fortune City. The main axis of the game is of course elimination of the hordes of zombies, which at one point can appear on the screen in thousands.
Turok
Action 05 February 2008
Set in the reality of science fiction FPS shooter, which is a kind of reboot of the famous series, initiated in the 90s by Iguana studio and Acclaim Entertainment. In the game, we play as a completely new character - a commando named Joseph Turok, who, in his pursuit of the extremely dangerous criminal Roland Kan, finds himself on a mysterious planet, which in the past was a place of genetic experiments.
Way of the Samurai 3
Action 13 November 2008
One of the installments in action games series developed by Acquire studio. The story takes place in feudal Japan, in the Gishu Amana province, where a fierce battle between the rivaling clans takes place. The player assumes the role of a samurai and chooses his side in the conflict. It is worth mentioning that each path has a different ending. The basic of the gameplay is combat. The enemies can be defeated by using many types of melee weapon.
Inversion
Action 05 June 2012
TPP Shooting by TimeShift authors. Our task is to solve the puzzle of gravitational anomalies in which the normal rules of physics do not work. While staying in them we can, among others, float in the air and walk on the walls. Thanks to the use of the unusual properties of these places the fight becomes much more interesting than in traditional shooters.
Clive Barker's Jericho
Action 23 October 2007
Clive Barker's Jericho is another (after Clive Barker's Undying, Demonik and Nightbreed) action game in the production of which the creator of the film Hellraiser: The Messenger of Hell. We take control of several different characters exploring various hellish mysteries.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - The Game
Action 23 June 2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is an action game embedded in the popular science fiction universe based on film. Players have the opportunity to embody their favourite robots and take part in the struggle between the Autobots defending humanity and the Deceptikons threatening it.
Operation Flashpoint: Red River
Action 21 April 2011
The third installment of the popular tactical FPS series. This time we are taking part in fighting in Tajikistan. The game takes place in Tajikistan, a country settled between Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China. Compared to the previous scenes, realism was reduced and the focus was on cooperation mode.
Conflict: Vietnam
Action 03 September 2004
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.
Clive Barker's Undying
Action 21 February 2001
Action game FPP maintained in the convention of horror, to which the script was written by the master of the genre Clive Barker himself. As an occult Patrick Galloway, the player must discover the mystery of the Covenant family's curse.
Unreal Tournament 2004
Action 15 March 2004
The third installment in the popular series of online first-person shooters developed by Digital Extremes. It is an improved and enhanced version of its 2003 predecessor, expanded with patches, expansions and additions. In addition to having better graphics, based on the improved engine from Unreal Tournament 2003, and a new user interface, Unreal Tournament 2004 adds two new game modes: the Assault Mode from the first game and Onslaught Mode based on the similar mode from Battlefield 1942.
Future Cop L.A.P.D
Action 31 August 1998
A dynamic TPP action game in a science-fiction setting, in which we face criminals as a police pilot of a modern combat vehicle.
God Eater 2: Rage Burst
Action 19 February 2015
An enhanced version of the second entry in the God Eater series from Bandai Namco Entertainment, unlike the original also available on PC and PlayStation 4. Aside from the old content, God Eater 2: Rage Burst offers many improvements, both in visuals and gameplay. We still receive a dynamic action game with RPG features, with its story taking place three years after the previous installment. We traverse the land as a nameless hero and eliminate large beasts.
Slime Rancher
Action 01 August 2017
Monomi Park’s sandbox action game with economic simulation game elements. Smile Rancher lets us play as Beatrix Labeau – a farmer girl who travels to Far, Far Range looking for a better life. She decides to make a fortune by breeding the titular slimes – lovable creatures that look like jellybeans. However, our heroine must face various threats, including a hostile species of jelly creatures. Each day starts with Beatrix taking care of the harvest and feeding her creatures their favorite food.
The Unspoken
Action 06 December 2016
An online action game focused on PvP competition, developed with virtual reality in mind. The Unspoken was created by Insomniac Games, the creators of Sunset Overdrive, Fuse, and the Ratchet & Clank series, among other things. The Unspoken is set in a world that bears resemblance to the present with the only difference being that magic exists, and it's incredibly spectacular. The players assume the role of mages who fight each other in one on one fights organized by an ancient order.
