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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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Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm
Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm

7.8 Game Score

Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm is a game based on the popular animated series produced by Mondo Mini Shows. Its publisher is Sega, which commissioned a development studio Stainless Games, known for its series of brutal racing games Carmageddon.

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The Saboteur
The Saboteur

7.8 Game Score

A game developed by the creators of Mercenaries. The title takes place in Paris occupied by the Nazis during the World War II. In Saboteur the player assumes the role of an Irish man named Sean who begins a guerilla war against the occupant. The gameplay consists mostly of sabotaging German plans and structures, which awakens the will to fight in other citizens. The player must silently eliminate important persons, blow up military transports and kill many regular soldiers.

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Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening - Special Edition
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening - Special Edition

7.8 Game Score

The third installment in the third-person perspective action hack-and-slash series. The story of Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening takes place before the events shown in the first installment of the series. It reveals more details about Dante’s past and motivations. The gameplay mechanics return to the roots of the series while adding an innovative feature – the possibility to choose a combat style, slightly altering Dante's abilities.

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Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project

7.8 Game Score

In Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project we go back a little bit in time, until some mysterious people decided to discover a new source of radioactive energy, when Duke was busy fighting foreign invaders.

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Section 8: Prejudice
Section 8: Prejudice

7.8 Game Score

Section 8: Prejudice is the second part of the First Person Shooting (FPS) by TimeGate Studios developers. The action of the game was set in the distant future, when the Earth is threatened with danger from the Cosmos. Players take on the role of Alex Corde, a soldier of an elite unit who treason to discover who is behind a series of betrayals threatening humanity.

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The Darkness II
The Darkness II

7.8 Game Score

The game provides a continuation to the successful action title developed by Starbreeze AB. Contrary to the first installment (2007), the sequel was created by Digital Extremes - a developer that co-created BioShock 2 and Dark Sector. In The Darkness II, the player assumes the role of Jackie Estacado again, who returns as the Godfather of the Franchetti crime family.

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LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars

7.8 Game Score

A 3D action-adventure platformer that came out as the third installment in the LEGO Star Wars game series. The story of LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is based on the popular animated TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Players can take part in the galactic conflict between the Republic and the Separatists. The developers prepared 3 campaigns, each consisting of 6 missions corresponding to the consecutive episodes of the TV show.

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The Simpsons Game
The Simpsons Game

7.8 Game Score

The Simpsons Game is the twenty-second video game based on the popular animated series. Its producer and publisher is Electronic Arts, and the premiere took place on the occasion of the creation of the first full-length film with Simpsons in the leading roles.

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Crusader: No Regret
Crusader: No Regret

7.8 Game Score

Crusader: No Regret is a sequel to a great action game that once touched the gaming community with a huge load of violence, attacking from the monitor screen at a convulsive pace.

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Extreme Assault
Extreme Assault

7.8 Game Score

Defend the Earth from alien invasion with a prototype Sioux AH-23 helicopter and a next-generation heavy T1 tank that you are fighting in giant operating areas.

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Operation Flashpoint: Gold Upgrade
Operation Flashpoint: Gold Upgrade

7.8 Game Score

The official package of additions to the Codemasters' tactical war simulator - Operation Flashpoint. The set also includes four new vehicles, four additional weapons, two missions in single game mode and five multiplayer maps. The whole thing requires a basic version of the game.

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Redneck Rampage
Redneck Rampage

7.8 Game Score

Redneck Rampage is a first person shooter (FPS) produced by the Xatrix Entertainment development studio. The action of the game was set in a small American town. The player takes on the role of one of the two brothers who set out to rescue their beloved mumps Bessie, kidnapped by aliens. The title is distinguished by an unconventional sense of humour and a relatively high level of difficulty.

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Spear of Destiny
Spear of Destiny

7.8 Game Score

A sequel to Wolfenstein 3D, a popular shooter developed by id Software. Spear of Destiny was released in 1992, soon after the debut of the first game in the series. Because of that, the gameplay mechanics of both titles are very similar. Once again the player assumes the role of William B.J. Blazkowicz, an American Special Forces commando sent to Nazi Germany.

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Hidden and Dangerous 2
Hidden and Dangerous 2

7.8 Game Score

Continuation of the popular tactical Hidden & Dangerous shooter. We are at the head of the Allied Commandos and carry out a number of difficult missions in occupied Europe. The authors bet on realism, which is why even a single sphere can be deadly. Commanding our subordinate soldiers plays an important role in the game.

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Franko: The Crazy Revenge
Franko: The Crazy Revenge

7.8 Game Score

Franko: The Crazy Revenge is a Polish answer to the battles like Double Dragon or Golden Axe, which once made a dizzying career in local gaming salons. We see our hero from the side, and the whole philosophy is to constantly walk to the right and delete the coming delicatessen.

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Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain
Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain

7.8 Game Score

The fourth part of the famous series, started on PSX. The game has 17 expanded singleleplayer levels and an equally interesting multiplayer.

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Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade
Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade

7.8 Game Score

One of the first arcade cRPGs released for Sony's portable console. We play the role of a hero representing one of the four possible professions and set out to save the magical metropolis of Aven.

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Fired Up
Fired Up

7.8 Game Score

Fired Up is an action car game for up to eight players. The action takes place mainly in deserted cities. We don't even meet individual people in them, but we find a whole lot of enemy vehicles.

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Crackdown
Crackdown

7.8 Game Score

Crackdown is another, after All Points Bulletin, production of Real Time Worlds development studio, which was founded by David Jones - the father of the famous and controversial Grand Theft Auto series. This time we are dealing with a dynamic action game/TPP.

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Chameleon
Chameleon

7.8 Game Score

An ambitious project of Silver Wish Games team belonging to Illusion Softworks, which is famous in the world for producing such hits as: Mafia or Hidden & Dangerous. Chameleon represents the genre of action games, and its plot takes place in the 80s of the XX century.

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Rogue Spear: Urban Operations
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Rogue Spear: Urban Operations

7.8 Game Score

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Rouge Spear: Urban Operations is an extension to the 1999 tactical shootout under the name of a well-known writer, created by Red Storm developers. The plugin contains, among other things, a package of new missions for single player mode, as well as new maps for online games.

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Soldier of Fortune
Soldier of Fortune

7.8 Game Score

An eye-catching, breathtaking first-person shooter game in which players take on the role of mercenaries working for the American government. They must dismantle a dangerous group of terrorists and recover stolen nuclear warheads.

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SIN
SIN

7.8 Game Score

SIN is a FPS action game in which we play Colonel John R. Blade and face the task of stopping SIN-TEK and crazy Elexis Sinclaire from distributing a drug that changes human DNA.

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TMNT Mutant Melee
TMNT Mutant Melee

7.8 Game Score

TMNT: Mutant Melee is an extension of an idea that started in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and continued in a sequel titled Battle Nexus.

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