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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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Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty Online

5.5 Game Score

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.

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Grand Theft Auto: Double Pack
Grand Theft Auto: Double Pack

5.5 Game Score

Two excellent and cult games for the price of one. The "Double Pack" includes Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City tuned to the capabilities of the Xbox.

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Yakuza: Restoration
Yakuza: Restoration

5.5 Game Score

The sequel to the third-person action game Yakuza: Kenzan, a spin-off from SEGA's popular gangster series. In contrast to the full-fledged parts of the series, the developers take the players on a journey to the past, to feudal Japan, where we learn about the roots of one of the biggest criminal organizations in the world. The authors reach back to the history of their country, focusing on the character of the real hero, Ryoma Sakamoto.

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Maneater
Maneater

5.5 Game Score

Action RPG game in which we play the role of a shark orphaned by its mother. In order to survive, the eponymous genocide has to fight for survival in the dangerous waters of the Gulf Coast, devouring everything that can be eaten and gradually growing in strength.

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Assassin's Creed Origins: The Hidden Ones
Assassin's Creed Origins: The Hidden Ones

5.5 Game Score

The first big DLC for Assassin’s Creed: Origins, set many years after the events from the base game. We play once again as Bayek, who this time goes to the Sinai peninsula and gets dragged into a conflict between Egyptian rebels and Roman occupants. This lets us witness another chapter in the history of the Assassin Order, the rise of which we could see in the base title.

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Far Cry 5: Hours of Darkness
Far Cry 5: Hours of Darkness

5.4 Game Score

An expansion for the 2018 FPS Far Cry 5, set during the Vietnam War. It was developed by French company Ubisoft, known for e.g. Assassin''s Creed and Watch Dogs.

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Far Cry 5: Lost on Mars
Far Cry 5: Lost on Mars

5.4 Game Score

An expansion for the 2018 FPS game Far Cry. The DLC is set on the red planet Mars, where you face dangerous aliens. The expansion was developed by French company Ubisoft, known for e.g. Assassin's Creed and Watch Dogs.

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I am weapon
I am weapon

5.4 Game Score

I am weapon is an action game with elements of tower defense strategy, for which an independent development studio Krealit Company is responsible. The player directs the actions of the hero, who in the world of nightmares tries to save the remnants of memories connecting him with reality.

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Godzilla
Godzilla

5.4 Game Score

Developed by an experienced studio Natsume, Godzilla is a third-person action game featuring one of the most famous film monsters. This game is set 60 years after the events in the cult movie from 1950s. The reborn Godzilla reappears in order to obtain more G-Energy, which is essential for the monster’s evolution. In the Destruction Mode the players must traverse 20 locations in search of G-Energy generators.

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Dead Island 2
Dead Island 2

5.4 Game Score

The second installment of an FPP action series set during the zombie apocalypse. Dead Island 2 takes place in Los Angeles, where a few lucky survivors turn out to be immune to the zombie virus. They thus attempt to learn the origin of the epidemic by traversing the city, completing quests and wiping out hordes of undead.

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Toukiden Kiwami
Toukiden Kiwami

5.4 Game Score

Game was created by Omega Force, Japanese studio known from such series as Dynasty Warriors or Samurai Warriors. The plot of the game refers to the Japanese mythology and focuses on the war waged with demons called Oni, which crawled out from under the ground and took over most of human settlements. Players take on the role of elite warriors, called to fight against the spreading evil. Gameplay boils down to exploration and conversations with NPCs who give us further tasks.

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Rogue Warrior
Rogue Warrior

5.4 Game Score

First-person shooter with stealth elements developed by Rebellion (the creators of the Aliens vs. Predator video game series). Rogue Warrior is set in the middle of the Cold War. The player assumes the role of Richard Marcinko, a famous Navy SEALs veteran, voiced by Mickey Rourke, an actor known from Sin City. The protagonist is sent to North Korea with a secret mission. Due to the nature of his task, the hero should try his best to keep low profile and eliminate enemies quietly.

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Duke Nukem Forever
Duke Nukem Forever

5.4 Game Score

Duke Nukem Forever is a sequel of the heavily-worshiped FPS, whose origins reach the beginning of the 1990s. After many years of silence, and a turbulent development cycle – during which the production was taken away from 3D Realms, and given to Gearbox Software – Duke Nukem Forever was released in a much more modern form.

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Big Mutha Truckers
Big Mutha Truckers

5.4 Game Score

A fun racing game in which we sit behind the wheel of a truck and transport goods. During the execution of subsequent orders we compete with other drivers. The creators of the production focused on a skillful driving model and a humorous audiovisual setting. Travelling is enhanced by typical truck music in country climates.

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Hellforces
Hellforces

5.4 Game Score

Hellforces is a classic FPS that takes place at a truly murderous pace. The plot is of secondary importance here, what counts is what the player does with the help of an extensive arsenal of means of extermination. Destruction will be sown among a dozen or so types of enemies, ranging from ordinary cultivators, through zombies, to demonic beings from hell to rhodium.

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Shadowrun
Shadowrun

5.4 Game Score

Shadowrun is an action/FPS title based on one of the most popular paper fiction game systems of the same name. The action takes place on Earth, in the near future.

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Haze
Haze

5.4 Game Score

Haze is a FPS game prepared by the authors of the popular TimeSplitters series, i.e. Free Radical Design employees. This product was created under the wing of Ubisoft Entertainment corporation, which manages the Far Cry brand.

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Monster Madness: Battle For Suburbia
Monster Madness: Battle For Suburbia

5.4 Game Score

Monster Madnes is a shooter game, although quite unusual. This is because he is one of the few (recently) representatives of the kind in which we can see the action from above. The creators decided to go in this direction because, as they claim, it is a genre rarely explored and thus leaves a wide field to show off and various types of innovation, and players receive a new kind of entertainment.

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PAIN
PAIN

5.4 Game Score

The main inspiration for PAIN's exclusive PlayStation 3 game was the Jackass TV show. The action of this position takes place in a big city, where the protagonists participate in various situations, commonly referred to in society as extreme.

PS3

Metathrone
Metathrone

5.4 Game Score

Metathrone is a science fiction-based action game with elements of sneaking and first person shooter (FPP). The plot presents a vision of the world in which people coexist with the mysterious Alta. However, peace between the two races is endangered when an unexpectedly powerful artifact - the title Megathrone - is discovered. The game was produced by Orion Software studio.

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Underworld
Underworld

5.4 Game Score

Underworld is a Lucky Chicken Games Third Person View (TPP) action game based on the theme of a spectacular film of the same title. Player takes part in the ongoing war between vampires and werewolves, playing the beautiful vampire Selena or Raze's lykan.

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Tom Clancy's The Division 2: Warlords of New York
Tom Clancy's The Division 2: Warlords of New York

5.4 Game Score

A large, paid expansion to Tom Clancy's The Division 2 online shooter, where we're moving back to the city known from the first part of the series - New York. The DLC offers a new scenario, locations and improvements in mechanics.

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Borderlands 3: Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot
Borderlands 3: Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot

5.3 Game Score

The first feature expansion to the popular shooter with RPG elements Borderlands 3, where we visit the forgotten star casino, built by Handsome Jack known from second part of the series. DLC was developed by the authors of the basic game - Gearbox Software studio.

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Gotham Knights
Gotham Knights

5.3 Game Score

Gotham Knights is an action RPG developing ideas from the Batman: Arkham series. There are four characters with unique abilities to choose from, who explore an open city, complete tasks and develop their statistics.

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