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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 Intervention
Tactical Intervention

6.5 Game Score

Tactical Intervention is a first person perspective (FPP) network shooting produced by Minha Le, one of the creators of the Counter-Strike brand. The action of the game focuses on the struggle of terrorists and anti-terrorist troops. Production is based on a modified Source engine.

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Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks
Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks

6.5 Game Score

Shaolin Monks is the latest installment of the legendary Mortal Kombat saga. This time, however, instead of a racial fight we are dealing with a completely three-dimensional adventure game, in which the events are presented from the third person perspective (TPP).

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Alien Rage
Alien Rage

6.5 Game Score

A science-fiction first-person shooter developed by City Interactive, a studio from Bydgoszcz, Poland. The production draws inspiration from the FPS classics such as Unreal and Quake. In the distant future, humanity and a technologically advance alien race fight for an invaluable mineral—Promethium. When the aliens conquer the asteroid Deimos 875, which is rich in this raw material's deposits, an elite soldier is sent in.

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America's Army: Rise of a Soldier
America's Army: Rise of a Soldier

6.5 Game Score

America's Army was once one of the most realistic tactical action games simulating the actions of a modern soldier on the battlefield. The game was created to persuade young people to join the American army.

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Secret Service: Ultimate Sacrifice
Secret Service: Ultimate Sacrifice

6.5 Game Score

Secret Service: Ultimate Sacrifice is a spectacular action game with tactical FPS elements, created by Tigon development studio. The player plays the role of the title secret service agent, who tries to save the President of the United States and the most important people in the country after the bloody assassination by a group of extremists.

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Alien Breed 2: Assault
Alien Breed 2: Assault

6.5 Game Score

Alien Breed 2: Assault is the sequel to the 2009 release of the futuristic TPP shooter, Alien Breed Impact. The player directs the actions of Conrad, the chief engineer on the alien spacecraft Leopold. The game was created by Team 17 Software's development team and uses the Unreal Engine 3 engine.

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Tron Evolution
Tron Evolution

6.5 Game Score

Tron Evolution is an action game produced by Propaganda Games studio, the plot of which is an introduction to the events presented in the film "TRON Legacy". The player takes on the role of Anon, a personified character of a computer program placed in the system, which is attacked by masked killers - viruses. The game combines elements of an action game, platformer, racing and TPP shooting.

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Section 8
Section 8

6.5 Game Score

Section 8 is a tactical first person view shooter produced by TimeGate studio. Players take on the role of soldiers of the title, elite infantry unit, which defends the Earth and the colonized planets against the dangers of the Cosmos. In addition to the main campaign, which is planned to be played in single player mode, the game offers an extensive multiplayer, allowing you to fight spectacular battles involving up to 32 people.

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Mafia II: Specjalny Pakiet Dodatkow
Mafia II: Specjalny Pakiet Dodatkow

6.5 Game Score

Mafia II: Add-ons package is a collection of DLC extensions to the Mafia II action game by 2K Czech studio. The set includes features such as Jimmy's betrayal, Jimmy's Wendetto and Joe's Adventures, as well as four smaller extensions: Vegas, Renegade, Greaser and War Hero introducing new outfits and vehicles.

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Disney's Meet the Robinsons
Disney's Meet the Robinsons

6.5 Game Score

Disney's Meet the Robinsons is an action game with adventure elements, based on computer animation (Polish title: Robinson's Family). The story is about a genius boy named Wilbur, who constructs a device to restore lost memories. It turns out, however, that this machine allows for unlimited travel in time.

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From Russia with Love
From Russia with Love

6.5 Game Score

From Russia with Love is an expanded, dynamic action/TPP game, telling about the adventures of popular agent 007, i.e. James Bond. This product is largely based on the 1963 feature film (Greetings from Russia), although it does not lack new themes and events.

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Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas
Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas

6.5 Game Score

The second part of a dynamic game exploding with action, based on the cult film trilogy of the Glass Trap. Like the original, the production combines three popular genres: a third-person action game, a rail-shooter and car racing. In this episode we get to know a completely new story, not connected with film scripts.

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Rambo III
Rambo III

6.5 Game Score

Rambo 3 is an arcade game based on a film under the same title. This time the brave commander goes to Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, from where he has to get out his superior, Colonel Trautman.

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Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel
Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel

6.5 Game Score

The only official extension to Hexen, a fantasy FPS game. The plugin offers 20 premiere single player scenarios and a completely new Multiplayer mode that can be used by up to eight players at once.

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Comar Barbarian
Comar Barbarian

6.5 Game Score

A game designed mainly for the youngest players, combining adventure elements with action elements. It has a non-linear plot, a large number of addictive stages, fabulously colourful graphics and a large dose of humour.

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Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Double Dragon II: The Revenge

6.5 Game Score

Despite a quick and effective retaliation in the first part of the game, Marian was murdered by members of the mysterious Shadow Boss gang. Billy Lee had no choice but to stand up again and administer justice. Our hero doesn't know yet that there is a way to restore a woman's life, but in order to do this you have to penetrate the underground hiding place of the main opponent.

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Destiny: Rise of Iron
Destiny: Rise of Iron

6.5 Game Score

Another major expansion to the multiplayer FPS by Bungie Software, published in autumn 2014. Destiny: Rise of Iron is the first expansion available exclusively for the 8th generation of consoles and it requires the previous extension, called The Taken King, to work. The plot revolves around a breach in the wall, located on the southern border of Old Russia, which let hordes of fallen mutants get into the Golden Age graves, filled with valuable artifacts.

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The Hong Kong Massacre
The Hong Kong Massacre

6.5 Game Score

Inspired by John Woo's films, this spectacular top-down view shooter is Sweden's debut project by VRESKI studio. Players go to Hong Kong, where a fierce war of triad takes place. The gameplay is based on efficient bypassing of opponents' balls, which makes it easier to slow down time, and eliminating them with a wide range of weapons. The whole is complemented by a spectacular audiovisual setting and largely destructible environment.

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Battletoads
Battletoads

6.5 Game Score

Reboot of the Battletoads series, which combined a platformer with a walking brawl and became famous for its unusually high level of difficulty. The work of Dlala Studios allows you to play both alone and in the company of up to two players.

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Cabela's African Adventures
Cabela's African Adventures

6.5 Game Score

Another item in the genre of hunting games branded with the logo of the American chain of shops with equipment for hunters. In accordance with the title, in Cabela's African Adventures we take part in a virtual hunt for the most popular specimens living in African areas.

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Dead Rising 3
Dead Rising 3

6.5 Game Score

The third installment in a series of original action games focusing on spectacular encounters with hordes of murderous zombies. The game was created by the fathers of the franchise - Capcom, though the player assumes the role of a completely new character here - Nick Ramos. As usual, Dead Rising 3 is set in an open environment, in which the protagonist completes a series of different tasks, eliminating entire crowds of zombies along the way.

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The Order: 1886
The Order: 1886

6.5 Game Score

A third-person perspective (TPP) action game in a steampunk setting, developed by Ready At Dawn studios. The main campaign storyline of The Order: 1886 takes the player to an alternate version of the Victorian era, in which a war is raging against a species of mutated humans. The player assumes the role of Sir Galahad, a knight of the Order that has fought the beasts for centuries. The action takes place mostly in London, where many authentic places and pieces of architecture can be found.

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Team Fortress 2: Mann vs. Machine
Team Fortress 2: Mann vs. Machine

6.5 Game Score

A free DLC expansion for the online shooter Team Fortress 2 released in 2007 by Valve. The story of the Mann vs. Machine expansion focuses on a robot invasion due to which the Red and Blue mercenaries must unite their forces and face a common enemy. The gameplay was designed with cooperation mode for six players in mind. The players who control the characters must face waves of robots and destroy the Mann Co. factory in which the machines are created.

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Counter-Strike: Online
Counter-Strike: Online

6.5 Game Score

The Asian incarnation of the popular Counter-Strike network shooting. The game is the responsibility of the Korean studio Nexon Corporation, which allowed itself to add its own ideas to the game. Counter-Strike: Online has been enriched with a zombie fighting mode, and Challenge Mode, where players have to beat the level as quickly as possible.

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