Action Video Games73
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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Armored Warfare
Action 08 October 2015
An action MMO game featuring modern-day tank battles. The game was produced by the experienced studio Obsidian Entertainment, known for such titles as Neverwinter Nights 2, Fallout: New Vegas, or Dungeon Siege III. The game features a wide spectrum of modern tanks and armored vehicles used by numerous military forces of the world. Although the game features online gameplay only, there are many different play modes, allowing anyone to find something for themselves.
Slain: Back From Hell
Action 24 March 2016
Oldschool platformer with elements of a slasher game inspired by such classic titles as Shadow of the Beast or the early installments in the Castlevania series. Slain! is a debut production of independent studio Wolf Brew Games. You play as a sole hero named Bathoryn, who tries to liberate the game’s fantasy world from the tyranny of seven evil lords residing in seven high towers. Each level in Slain! is split into two different sections.
Crossout
Action 30 May 2017
A digitally distributed free-to-play MMO developed by Russian studio Gaijin Entertainment – creators of such titles as X-Blades, Wings of Prey, and War Thunder. Gameplay mechanics combines large-scale battles known from World of Tanks with post-apocalyptic setting inspired by the Mad Max movies. Crossout is set in a future world devastated by an alien invasion and genetic experiments. Players have to survive in this hostile environment and take part in rivalry of armored vehicles.
Tribes: Aerial Assault
Action 24 September 2002
A side-view of the popular Tribes series of first-person online shooters, prepared especially for PlayStation 2. The game is based on the well-known solutions of the cycle. However, the mechanics of the game has undergone a number of changes, resulting from the specificity of consoles and console expectations of players, as a result of which the gameplay has become much faster and more dynamic.
Tank Battles
Action 20 August 2009
Armoured shooting maintained in a slightly humorous tone. It is also distinguished from games like World of Tanks by the way the action is presented (distant isometric projection) and the move away from realism in favour of uncompromising violence.
Samurai Warriors 4: Empires
Action 17 September 2015
Another installment of the third-person hack ‘n’ slash action games developed by Omega Force. The title takes the players to feudal Japan and lets them take part in Battle of Okehazama and Battle of Sekigahara. The title is focused on stories of individual characters that we choose before the adventure starts. At the core of Samurai Warriors 4: Empires lies real-time combat with hundreds of units participating.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor - The Bright Lord
Action 24 February 2015
The Bright Lord is the second DLC to Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor developed by Monolith Productions. The expansion takes us to the distant past where we play as Celebrimbor. Remembering how much the Dark Lord hurt his family, Celerbrimor declares war on Sauron and tries to stop him from getting his hands on the Ring of Power. Unlike Talion, the protagonist of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor - The Bright Lord can use the power of the One Ring.
Death Road to Canada
Action 22 July 2016
An retro-stylized action adventure game with survival elements, developed by the Rocket Games studio. In Death Road to Canada the player's task is to travel the eponymous route from Florida to the city of Ontario in Canada and to survive the hordes of zombies attacking us along the way. In the game we control a team of up to five characters (human or animal), each of which has its own unique virtues and vices.
War of Rights
Action 03 December 2018
An online shooter taking place during the American Civil War. The game was developed by Campfire Games, for which War of Rights is the debut project. The developers introduced a number of historic campaigns that allow us to choose a side, as well as our duties on the battlefield – we can assume the role of a frontline soldier, or a general who controls the whole battle from the headquarters.
Wings! Remastered Edition
Action 17 October 2014
A remastered edition of the classic aerial shooting, which debuted in 1990 on Amiga computers. The action of the game takes place in the years 1916-18, and we play the role of the pilot of the 56th RAF Squadron, sitting at the helm of the plane Sopwith Camel. The new version of the title offers a completely refreshed HD graphics, a re-recorded soundtrack, as well as 5 hidden missions and an alternative end to the game.
Nuclear Strike
Action 29 October 1997
The fifth installment of the cult cycle of shooting with a view from the top, started in 1992 with Desert Strike. In the game we follow in the footsteps of a terrorist who came into possession of an extremely dangerous atomic head for the world. We have at our disposal 15 different combat machines, headed by a modern Super Apache helicopter equipped with Hydra missiles, Hellfire and Sidewinder missiles.
Little Devil Inside
Action TBA
Little Devil Inside is an action adventure RPG and the first game developed by Neostream. The game takes place in a world where steampunk, fantasy, and modern times collide. There are humans living there, along with other intelligent races and various monsters. The game features an open world which we explore by using numerous vehicles and ships. They require to be regularly checked and upgraded, but they make our journey much more safer and faster.
Re-Loaded
Action 01 December 1996
A brutal top-down shooter, a continuation of the Loaded game released on PlayStation and Sega Saturn. In the game we play the role of bloodthirsty antiheroes, who are sent to defeat the crazy C.H.E.B.A. - a villain whose brain was transplanted into the body of a hermit-artist. The gameplay boils down to wandering through completely twisted worlds and brutal elimination of hostile enemies using a large arsenal of deadly weapons.
The House of the Dead 4
Action 17 April 2012
The fourth installment of one of the most famous series of shooters "on rails", celebrating triumph in arcade game halls all over the world. We play the role of two heroes who repels zombie attacks. The game has been enriched with a few new ideas. The PlayStation 3 version includes improved graphics (HD), trophies and full support for the PlayStation Move controller.
Call of Duty Online
Action 01 May 2013
Call of Duty Online is a free (micro-transaction based) version of the modern shooter series Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, created especially for the Chinese market. The game focuses exclusively on multiplayer gameplay, which is well known from the previous parts. There are also special missions available in the cooperation mode, telling a new story set in the Modern Warfare universe.
Hunter-Killer
Action 17 January 2011
Action game based on a comic series under the same title. We play the role of superhumanly powerful agents hunting deserters with similar abilities. The whole thing is focused on the cooperation mode, in which several players fight together against enemy armies.
Zone of the Enders HD Collection
Action 30 October 2012
A set consisting of the first and second parts of the Zone of the Enders series - appropriately tuned to the possibilities offered by PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The creator of this well-known series of games about robots is Hideo Kojima.
Batman: Arkham City - Harley Quinn's Revenge
Action 29 May 2012
Harley Quinn's Revenge is a DLC supplement to Batman: Arkham City that provides two hours of fun. It allows, among other things, to get to know an additional thread related to Joker's helper and to visit several new locations.
Hit-Monkey
Action canceled
Hit-Monkey is a dynamic third-person action game by High Moon studio. We play the well-trained monkey of the title killer and hunt other murderers. The whole is set in a full of superheroes cartoon universe by Marvel.
Killer is Dead
Action 27 August 2013
Killer is Dead is an action game, in which players get to use melee weapons to eliminate their enemies. The game has been developed by the Japanese studio Grasshopper Manufacture known for Lollipop Chainsaw and two installments in the No More Heroes series.
Running with Rifles
Action 03 April 2015
Running with Rifles is a 2D top-down shooter developed by a one-person Finnish studio Modulaatio Games. The game features open world and RPG elements. We play as a soldier who, along with his company, has to take over an enemy base, and at the same time protect his own from being taken over. Maps on which the game takes place are around one square kilometer big. There are up to fourteen camps, divided between a couple of factions, on each of them.
Dishonored: The Knife of Dunwall
Action 16 April 2013
The first story-based DLC for Arkane Studios' steampunk stealth game Dishonored, released in 2012. Expansion called The Knife of Dunwall allows you to look at the events shown in the base game from a completely different perspective. We play as the empress's murderer himself - leader of a group of assassins named Daud, who tries to redeem himself in the course of the game (and who, unlike Corvo from the "basic" game, received a full voiceover).
Mars War
Action 10 January 2011
A free MMO shooting game in which hundreds of players fight each other for dominance on huge maps. We have at our disposal a rich arsenal of weapons as well as ground and flying vehicles.
Hunter's Trophy 2: Australia
Action 22 April 2013
Realistic first person perspective hunting simulation (FPP). Players can play the role of hunters and take part in virtual hunting for 20 species of Australian animals (including dingoes, vombats and wild buffaloes). The title was produced by the French development studio Kylotonn Entertainment.