Action Video Games92
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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Yakuza
Action 05 September 2006
Yakuza is an action game in response to the Grand Theft Auto series. The title was created in cooperation with the award-winning designer Toshihiro Nagoshi and tells the story of a mafia who wants to break free from the ties of a criminal organization.
Gotcha!
Action 31 July 2004
Gotcha! is a three-dimensional paintball simulator, in which the feature layer does not play an important role, as the title can also be classified as an action game in terms of genre.
Rise of the Triad: Dark War
Action 21 December 1994
Rise of the Triad is Apogee Software's FPS, allowing you to become a High-Risk United Nations Taskforce (HUNT) team member who has to go through thirty stages alone and defeat a madman trying to destroy the world.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire
Action 17 November 2006
Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire is a game about the battles of giant robots in a futuristic reality. This product is part of a popular brand, including animated films, cartoons and toys. We are therefore in the very middle of an armed conflict, the stake of which is control over the Earth.
Bet on Soldier: Blood of Sahara
Action 29 June 2006
Bet on Soldier: Blood of Sahara is the first official extension of the 2005 FPS game Bet on Soldier: Blood Sport (Bet on Soldier: Bloody Sport). This is a stand-alone add-on, so having a basic BoS version is not required to run this product.
Smuggler's Run: Warzones
Action 08 August 2002
The next installment of the famous action game, this time on the Gamecube console. We play the role of a driver transporting illegal goods. Missions are played on very diverse and at the same time extensive maps.
Archangel (2002)
Action 04 October 2002
Archangel is an action game with cRPG elements created by the Polish development studio Metropolis Software. The player directs Michael Travinsky's actions. The hero, tragically deceased in a car accident, is summoned from the other world by forces unknown to him. The game combines the conventions of horror, techno-thriller and fantasy.
Forsaken
Action 30 April 1998
Clone of the famous action game series Descent. You take on the role of an all-purpose hunter crossing the destroyed Earth in search of the precious things that survived the disaster.
Close Quarters Conflict
Action 22 January 2007
Close Quarters Conflict is a shooter with tactical elements. The action is presented from the perspective of the first person. The title is primarily focused on multiplayer gameplay. The production was developed and released by Groove Games studio, which already has several titles of this type (including Marine Sharpshooter II: Jungle Warfare and Rally Berlin: Special Branches).
Global Agenda
Action 01 February 2010
Spy and tactical MMORPG using the Unreal Engine 3 engine, whose action takes place on Earth in the twentieth century. As trained and equipped with the latest gadgets special agents we take part in various missions. The fight is largely arcade and relies more on the player's skills than his character stats.
Deadly Dozen
Action 15 November 2001
Three-dimensional tactical action game in which we take command of the Allied troops. The action was set more or less between 1942 and 1945, and fate will throw us on the hot sands of Africa, the green hills of France or the enemy German land, where we will fight fierce battles with the Third Reich.
My Friend Pedro
Action 20 June 2019
Platform action game, in which we play as a dancing hero, with gracefulness eliminating opponents standing in his way. While playing My Friend Pedro, we travel through industrial locations and kill enemies, making use of both firearms (with a pair of pistols at the forefront) and environmental elements.
Raji: An Ancient Epic
Action 18 August 2020
An action adventure game with logical elements set in a world inspired by Hindu mythology. Players take on the role of a girl named Raji, whose gods entrust the task of defeating the king of demons named Mahabalasura.
Samurai Gunn 2
Action 20 July 2021
The second part of the cycle of brawlers, which takes us on a journey to the troubled city of Gunn City. In Samurai Gunn 2 the gameplay consists primarily of traversing locations and fighting gruesome duels, in which death is delivered with just a single accurate blow.
Stormland
Action 14 November 2019
Stormland is an action adventure game developed for PCs. Production is only possible with VR equipment. The player controls a robot that explores the open world, collects upgrades and fights against the forces of the mechanical army occupying his planet.
Tokyo Ghoul:re Call to Exist
Action 15 November 2019
Tokyo Ghoul: re Call to Exist is an action game based on the popular manga. The game focuses on multiplayer matches in which teams of ghouls face teams of humans. In addition to a PvP mode, the game features a cooperative mode.
Marvel Powers United VR
Action 26 July 2018
Marvel Powers United VR is a PC FPP action game requiring a VR headset. You play as one of the many Marvel comic book characters, each of them possessing their distinct characteristics and special abilities. The gameplay consists mostly of fighting hordes of enemies.
TauCeti Unknown Origin
Action TBA
First person shooter for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles, PC and mobile devices. BadFly Interactive studio, famous for Dead Effect series, is responsible for its production. Players find themselves on inhospitable planet, where live creatures like big spiders or dinosaurs. Our task is to survive in this dangerous environment, using futuristic weapons and making tools within the crafting system. Survival elements are complemented by solutions known from the RPG genre, e.g.
Soviet Strike
Action 31 October 1996
The next installment of the series of arcade air shooters, in which the action is presented in isometric projection. This is the first part of the cycle released on a 32-bit console.
Distrust
Action 23 August 2017
Developed by the Russian studio Cheerleaders, Distrust is an unusual, isometric survival horror, which mingles reality with hallucinations. The player assumes control of two survivors, who got stuck near an abandoned base in the arctic, as a result of a helicopter crash. The crash itself is only the beginning of their trouble, as a creature remains in the vicinity of the base - becoming a deadly threat to the characters.
GRIDD: Retroenhanced
Action 16 May 2017
A rail shooter game developed by the independent Italian developer Antab Studio. GRIDD: Retroenhanced draws its inspirations from both cyberpunk and hacker culture of the 1980s. The player gets to assume the role of an operator of a battle ship that traverses the virtual reality with a task to bypass a computer defense system and defeat a dangerous Artificial Intelligence. During the game, one gets to sweep through procedurally generated maps and fight numerous enemies.
Somerville
Action 15 November 2022
An action platformer, in which the players witness the adventures of a group of people trying to survive an invasion of an alien civilization. Somerville is a work by Jumpship, a studio founded by Dino Patti, i.e. the co-creator of two bestselling games Inside and Limbo. The game is characterized by original, dark, but also slightly cartoonish art style, designed by Chris Olsen - a film animator who participated in the works on such pictures as Skyfall and Thor.
Mothergunship
Action 17 July 2018
A roguelike FPS, in which the players must exhibit great skill and quick fingers, fighting and dodging a storm of bullets from many ships of a hostile armada. Randomly generated levels provide more and more challenges, while the unique weapon creation system lets us create true avatars of destruction in gun form, like ten-barrel rocket-launcher or welded miniguns.
Blood & Truth
Action 28 May 2019
Blood & Truth is a combination of FPS, spy game and sneaky, using virtual reality technology with PlayStation VR goggles. The author of the game is the London branch of Sony, responsible, among others, for The Getaway series.