APB
APB or also Known as APB: All Points Bulletin is an Open World Multiplayer Action-Adventure and Third-person Shooter video game K2 Network. The game set in the Modern day setting of San Paro City where it allows the players to select any of the two Factions (Enforcers and Criminals), form sub-groups of operatives and reign hell over the enemies. APB offers a gameplay heavily inspired by the popular Grand Theft Auto and Crackdown series games and offers a truly immersive experience of Multiplayer Shooting and Action all together. The players can simply select any of the two main factions and act accordingly such as they can be Criminals and perform various crimes such as robing a convenience store or a bank, kill people, etc. The players can also be the Enforcers and perform various tasks such as chasing and killing or arresting the Criminals, Stopping robberies, etc. Players can earn in-game money by participating and completing various missions and they can use the money to buy upgrades and items to modify their character’s appearance, etc. APB lets the players enjoy a Third-person perspective, buy weapons at vending machines scattered all around the map, buy more items such as clothes, ammunition from various locations and enjoy interacting with the pedestrians (NPCs), riding in vehicles and all the other fantastic things in the game. Furthermore, APB offers PvP matches in which players can engage into epic Player versus Player battles and enjoy a totally different experience of Multiplayer Online gaming. With all the brilliant and Addictive gameplay, enhanced game mechanics and awesome graphics, APB is a fun Multiplayer Shooter and Action-Adventure video game to play and enjoy.
#1 Grand Theft Auto 5
Grand Theft Auto V (GTA 5) or shortly represented as GTA 5 is an Action-Adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. This game features 1st and 3rd person gaming perspectives and an engaging and addicting gameplay along with nicely crafted graphic details, a well written storyline and an open world gaming environment. Grand Theft Auto V is available to play on Windows, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. According to the storyline, game revolves around the life events of the protagonist, Michael Townley who along with his accomplice Franklin Clinton heists a jewelry store to pay the debts. Michael Townley’s sole partner and friend Trevor Philips realizes that it’s Michael’s handiwork and he contacts him. Later on, Trevor Philips introduces Townley to numerous mafia heads for work and the real story begins. GTA 5 is an awesome action and adventure game. Player can walk, run, interact with people and shoot them. Townley gets an order and kills the person who he is ordered to be killed and in return he gets paid. With the paid money, player can buy all kinds of upgrades like cloths, weapons and vehicles etc. Open world gaming environment adds a bit of more taste in this amazingly designed and created piece of wonder. You can snatch cars from people, kill them, ride bikes and even fly a plane in the game. In short, this game is a great blend of action, adventure, RPG and shooting elements.
#2 Saints Row: The Third
Saints Row: The Third is an Action and Adventure packed game developed by Volition, Inc. and is available to play on PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Saints Row: The Third is one of the best games of this specific genre that offers versatility in almost every single element present in the game. The game is set in an imaginary city of SteelPort. SteelPort is the house of Saints Row: The Third from centuries. Saints Row: The Third features super realistic graphic details, open world gaming environment, inspiring storyline and a thrilling game-play. The storyline of the game is quite like Mafia II with a whole different game-play and environment. In the game, the player leads the gang of Third Street Saints who are fighting a gang war against the 3 most notorious gangs of SteelPort named as Morningstar, Luchadores and Deckers. With a variety of weapons and vehicles they have a huge advantage over the enemies. After a very long gang war the Syndicate (Trio of the enemy gangs) is defeated and now the governmental Special Anti-Gang force starts hunting the Saints and a new war between Law Enforcement Authorities and Third Street Saints begins. Saints Row: The Third proves to be a really great game to play and enjoy, you should totally check it out.
#3 Saints Row 4
Saints Row 4, is an open world Action-Adventure, Sci-Fi, RPG and third person shooter video game. Saints Row 4 kicks off from where the Saints Row: The Third concluded. Third Street Gang’s Boss becomes the president of U.S and changes everything. The gangs, defeated by Third Street Saints are now forming alliances and an alien invasion is just about to happen. The protagonist multiplies his efforts with the Third Street Saints to act rationally and killing all the enemies for the sake of United States and the Third Street Gang. After a long lasting war with the aliens and the rival gangs combined, the President (Third Street Saints Boss) confronts Zinyak and kills him in the end of a bloody battle and moves towards the alliance of the Gangs of Steelport, eradicates them with all his might and man power and conquers the Zin forces. After the surrender of the Zin forces, the Boss becomes their new leader, acquires the Zin Time Trave Device and restores the order in present by going to the past and correcting all the errors. Zin invasion never happens and the gangs never show up on the surface of the earth, only Third Street Saints rules as a unanimous power and the boss still becomes the president of United States.
#4 Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto IV developed and published by Rockstar North and Rockstar Games respectively is an extremely spellbinding combination of Action-Adventure, RPG, Driving and Shooting elements. A significant addition to the series Grand Theft Auto, this game is available to play on Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Grand Theft Auto IV features an open world gaming environment, an amazingly lined up story with a superbly developed gameplay and ultra-realistic graphics details. With a 3rd person perspective, you can enjoy the game by snatching vehicles, fighting and killing the pedestrians, mafia lords and mafia men, you can drive tanks, fly planes and helicopters etc. This game allows you to roam and explore freely and enjoy every bit of the environment. The story revolves mostly around the protagonist Niko Bellic who comes to Liberty City to live the American Dream but once reached, Niko indulges in some serious mafia business after killing Vlad Glebov. Glebov was a top hit so Niko receives more offers for high value targets and ends up killing most of the mafia bosses for the agency in exchange of his criminal file. Agency agrees and gives him a free hand. Niko finally finds the person responsible for his unit’s betrayal. Pegorino tricks Niko in killing Dimitri and escapes, Niko finds Pegorino and kills him. Mission finishes, agency gives him his criminal record file and Niko Disappears for good. A great game with a great storyline and characters, absolutely a Action-Adventure, driving and Shooting experience. Must try it out.
#5 Mafia 2
Mafia 2 is a 3rd person, Open World, Action-Adventure and Shooting game developed and published by 2K Czech. This game is a direct sequel to Mafia: City of Lost heaven and is playable on Pc (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS X, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game is based in the fictional cities of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Detroit and it revolves around the life of a former army veteran now a gangster Vito Scalata, who wants to be a don someday. Vito Scalata continues to work hard and gathers a large file of his criminal activities in the law enforcement office. The protagonist of the game mostly travels on foot or in vehicles and a lot of ammunition travels with him. Where ever he finds his enemies he kill them and also works on assignments from his multiple bosses to earn money. The gameplay of Mafia 2 greatly resembles to the GTA series games but the storyline is quite different. Mafia 2 features an era of Empire Bay so the music in the game is also quite oldish but great, you’ll get a chance to drive vintage and famous cars from the years 1940 to 1950. With great graphics, an open world gaming environment and a third person perspective, the player is forced to enjoy the game.
#6 Socom 4: U.S. Navy Seals
Socom 4: U.S. Navy Seals, an amazing war based production of Zipper Interactive and Sony Computer Entertainment. This Third-person Tactical Shooter game released back in 2011 for PlayStation 3 gaming consoles. The story of the game is about a civil war going on in the fictitious surroundings of Malaysia where a group of activists called Naga picks up arms against the government, hijacks ships of a private military company and heists a large quantity of weapons and ammunition. The U.S. Navy Seals tasks Eric Schweitzer and Dion Wells to team up with NATO forces to destroy the faction and all of its assets. You can play as either one of the mentioned names as the protagonist and act accordingly. The game lets you use advanced military skills and tactics against the enemy and allows you to use weapons of different kinds, attack your enemies using tanks and guns mounted on a vehicle top. Socom 4: U.S. Navy Seals lets you choose between different game modes to play and enjoy the game. Different gaming modes include Last Defense, Up-link, Suppression, Bomb Squad, Demolition, Scrum, Sniper Alley and Last Defense Run n’ Gun modes to engage yourself in an amazing and quite thrilling war based game environment. Multiplayer gaming mode allows you to play the game online with other players and choose whoever you want to be in the game. E.g. you can be a terrorist, an insurgent or an army personnel etc.
#7 Sleeping Dogs
Sleeping dogs is an Action-Adventure and Third Person Shooter video game that takes you to the environmental wonders of the Hong Kong. The game features the protagonist Wei Shen an undercover police officer who infiltrates the Sun On Yee triad to take down their organization. The game lets you experience an awesomely engaging and thrilling game-play by using your fighting, shooting and parkour skills against your enemies. You can walk, run, fight with pedestrians, drive different vehicles and even fly planes in an open world. As being the police officer and a criminal at the same time, Sleeping Dogs lets you get into both law enforcing and criminal activities and this makes the game more engaging. You get a handful of different weapons, melee and firearms both at your disposal all the time. Sleeping Dogs is one of the best Action-Adventure and Shooter video game that provides with super realistic graphics, an amazing story, an open world and a thrilling game-play. Do try it out.
#8 Watch Dogs
Watch Dogs is an Action-Adventure, RPG, Stealth and Third-person Shooter video game created by Ubisoft. This extraordinary game takes you to an alternate reality and lands you right into the fictitious setting of United States where you act as a vigilante named Aiden Pierce. Watch Dogs tasks you to act as the protagonist and infiltrate the network systems of mega corporations who store all the data of online behaviors of humans to its mega servers. The hackers faction, Watch Dogs helps you get into the systems and after a little time you get to know that the mega corporations and other high ranking people are the responsible for the death of your niece and countless other people. This information pushes you to the limits to burn down the mega corporations and all the enemies of humanity. You start a war against them using your hacking abilities and act as the story of the game suggests. Watch Dogs provides you with a thrilling and action filed game-play, a great story and an open world to play and enjoy the game to the limits. Do try it out if you haven’t played it yet.
#9 Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days
Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days is an Action-packed Third-person Shooter video game developed by IO Interactive. With single and multiplayer gaming options, Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days offers documentary films inspired style, enhanced graphics details, thrilling and engaging game-play, a well written story-line presenting the unique characters. The game is set in Shanghai, China where the main characters of the game, Kane and Lynch go after an informant named Li Brady Lung who starts running along with his girlfriend who gets a bullet instead of Brady by Kane’s gun. She dies instantly and Brady commits suicide. After the suicide of Brady, Kane and Lynch’s limo gets ambushed by the Brady gang and they end up forming allegiance with Ghiser, The Mercenary King. The story continues with Kane and Lynch keeping the trail in search of the Crime lord named Hsing who himself is hidden deep into the layers of Mafia but his accomplices keep on surfacing and giving a hard time to Kane and Lynch. Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is filled with fast-paced action and drama that takes you to the heights of Action-Adventure and Shooting experience.
#10 Batman Arkham
Batman Arkham is an Action-Adventure and Stealth video game series based thoroughly on DC Comics and the characters from it. Batman Arkham consists of three main games and a prequel in the series and allows the players to enjoy a brilliant Stealth-based gameplay. The main games in the series include Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman: Arkham City, and Batman: Arkham Knight and the Prequel is titles as Batman: Arkham Origins. Batman: Arkham Origins was published as the prequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum and it is one of the best games in the series. The Series also offers games for mobile devises and allows the players to enjoy the games such as Batman: Arkham City Lockdown, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, Batman: Arkham Underworld, on almost all of the portable devices. The series has three more titles as the Collections that include Batman: Arkham Bundles, Batman: Arkham Collection, and Batman: Return to Arkham. There is one Virtual Reality game being developed currently known as Batman: Arkham VR and it will soon be published on all major platforms. Throughout the series, all the games are filled with high quality graphics, action and adventure and are the best examples of fantastic stealth games till date. The Latest Inclusion to the Series is “Batman: Arkham VR” available to play on PS4 (PlayStation 4). For all those who love the character of Batman, Batman Arkham series in truly a great source of entertainment. If you haven’t yet tried any game of the Batman Arkham series, now is the time you should.
#11 Saints Row 2
Saints Row 2 is an Action-Adventure, Open World, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Volition and published by THQ. It is the second game in the series of Saints Row. The game takes place in the fictional city known as Stilwater 5-year after the release of the first game. It casts you in the role of the protagonist and tasked you to lead a Third Street gang and compete against three evil gangs who threatened the city. It offers an open environment and enables you to use different weapons and melee attacks to take down your foes. It offers the similar gameplay like GTA series. There are different types of vehicles, boats, airplanes and motorcycles to drive. The game lets you explore the game world either by vehicles or on foot. Earn money by completing missions and use them to buy a weapon, vehicles and more. Move freely around the world, navigate the environment and play with your style. The world is distributed into 45 neighborhoods and twenty districts. Saints Row 2 offers key features such as Co-op, Killer Combat, Freedom to Explore, challenging Missions, Customization and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#12 Yakuza 3
Yakuza 3 is an Action-Adventure, Open World, Exploration and Single-player video game developed and published by Sega for PlayStation platform only. It is the 3rd marvelous title in the series of Yakuza game and centers on four different gameplay elements such as First-person Perspective, Revelation, Chase Battle and Seamless Battle. It has three different modes such as Adventure mode, Battle mode, and Event mode. The plot revolves around the protagonist and his companion named as Kazuma and Haruka, as they left their criminal professional to hunt a new life in the fictional city called Okinawa where they are trying to manage an orphanage for innocent children. Their peaceful life will be interrupted as the game progress. You can take on the role of the protagonist, and your task is to explore the world, fight against enemies and take down to earn points and money. You can navigate the world from a third-person view and can use melee combat to defeat enemies and their bosses. You can use a set of weapons during combat and can drive any vehicle. With enhanced gameplay, controls, visuals and graphics, Yakuza 3 is the best game to play and enjoy.
#13 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Shooter, and Single-player video game available to play on Cross Platform. The game takes place in the in the fictional vice city in Miami and offers an open world environment. The story revolves around the protagonist named as Tommy Vercetti, following his release from jail. It is the sixth installment in the series of Grand Theft Auto and the first main released since 2001. After the protagonist is caught up in a drug deal, he attempts to find out those responsible while creating a criminal empire and enhancing his power from other criminal organization. The game uses third-person perspective to navigate the environment and offers a variety of weapons and vehicles. The player can explore the world from third-person view either on foot or by vehicle. The objective of the player is to complete a set of missions to earn points and face off enemies using different weapons, melee attacks, explosives, and firearms. After making enough money, the player can purchase different properties, tools, and arms. With high-quality graphics, detailed environment, engaging gameplay, and a superb story, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is the best game to play and enjoy.
#14 Wheelman
Wheelman is a marvelous video game for those players who love playing GTA-like games. The game offers Action-Adventure, Open World, and Exploration gameplay for multiple platforms developed by Tigon Studios and published by Midway Games. It puts you into the fully destructible world and features more than thirty-one story-based missions and up to 105 side-missions. The player assumes the role of the protagonist and his ultimate task is to explore the world from a third-person view, interact with non-player characters to get his tasks and struggle to complete them to earn money. A huge variety of weapons, vehicles, and objectives are available for hardcore players. The player as the hero (Milo Burik) can navigate the world from either on foot or by vehicle. According to the story, the protagonist must work along with a criminal gang in Barcelona, plans out the biggest heist of their career. The game becomes challenging, as the player completes some levels. During the game, the player can drive any vehicle, fight against enemies using weapons, melee combat and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#15 Yakuza 4
Yakuza 4 is an Action-Adventure, Open world, and Third-person Shooter video game developed and published by Sega. The game supports Single-player mode only and serves as the sequel to Yakuza 3, released in 2010. It comes with exciting mini-games, including Karaoke, Hanafuda, Table Tennis, Fishing, and more. In the game, the player can take on the role of the protagonist named as Kazuma Kiryu, who can explore three different locations full of challenging missions. The player can explore the land from a third-person viewpoint, interact with non-player characters to fulfil the requirements to earn money. Each primary role in the game has a side-game or tasks which must be completed to advance through the story. During the gameplay, the player can explore the land either on foot or by vehicles. It includes a massive arsenal of weaponry which the player can use to take down enemies. Yakuza 4 offers prominent features such as Open World, Free Roam, Third-person Action, Side Missions, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#16 L.A Noire
L.A Noire is an Action-Adventure, Interactive Drama, Third-person Shooter and Stealth video game by Team Bondi. Featuring the protagonist Cole Phelps the game is set in the city of Los Angeles. Cole Phelps recently joined in as the Detective after serving for years as an officer in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Being a police officer, Phelps worked in a lot of police departments and in every Department, he worked with different partners having different sets of skills in crime investigations and interrogations. Players get to solve the cases of different kinds, assigned to them as the investigation tasks and by using their skills, they are meant to put the responsible behind the bars. This amazingly twisted and amalgamated series of fast-paced action and adventure includes crime scene investigations, interrogations, fieldwork and super thrilling gun battles between the law-breakers and the lawmakers. Player mostly uses melee attacks, a lot of weapons and rides vehicles of different kinds in an open world environment. With greatly 3D graphics, exhilarating game-play and an appealing and well-inscribed story-line, L.A Noire takes you to a new dimension of Action-Adventure and Shooting game experience.
#17 Infamous 2
Infamous 2 is an extremely hardcore Action and Adventure packed game by Sucker Punch Productions. The game is a sequel to the 2009’s famous game Infamous and the story of this thrilling game presents the scenario of a battle with zombie like alien creatures Aka. Beasts. The protagonist Cole MacGrath from a different future along with countless other humans who possess some special abilities gets in the line to fight against the creatures. This spendthrift piece of art, Infamous 2, features an amazingly engaging and quite captivating game-play, enhanced graphics, open world gaming environment and a user friendly interface. Infamous 2 supports only single player gaming mode and is available to play on PlayStation 3 only. Try it out if you haven’t yet ane enjoy the ultimate fun.
#18 Manhunt
Manhunt is a Hardcore Action filled Third-person Shooter, Horror-Survival and Stealth video game. The game features the protagonist Earl Cash a death row prisoner recently executed by the lethal injection but he wakes up and finds out that the injection was just a Sedative. With second chance on life, cash gets trapped into serving The Director who orders him to complete some really challenging and hardcore tasks to eliminate the gang members of The Hoods by using firearms, sharp-edged weapons and stealth techniques. Manhunt offers a fantastic Storyline along with an immersive gameplay and quite brilliant visual details. With a number of character customization options, multiple game missions, equally equipped enemies and hardcore action and thrill filled gameplay, Manhunt is one amazing Action, Third-person Shooting and Stealth video game to play. Do try it out if you haven’t yet.
#19 Mass Effect
Mass Effect is an Action, Stealth, RPG and a 3rd person Shooter video game Developed by BioWare and published by Microsoft Game Studios in collaboration with Electronic Arts. This absolutely advanced science fiction game was first launched for Pc (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3 and Xbox, but later on BioWare released a Wii U compatible version on a huge demand from the players around the world. The story of the game revolves around Commander Shepard who is struggling to save the galaxy from a powerful and brutal Alien race of mechanical beings named as The Reapers. The story of the game actually runs back to hundreds of thousands of years when Reapers attacked the galaxy and they exterminated every living being in the vicinity. Huge battles took place and in result when the reapers left the galaxy, one reaper was left behind! Wounded badly and floating in the space in his ship. The left behind reaper woke up and somehow managed to take control over the protagonist of the last game of the series Saren Arterious and he contacted the legion of Reapers with the help of the Collectors (An Alien race in alliance with the Reapers). Commander Shepard was investigating Saren when all the reaper fleets appeared and they started annihilating the galaxy again. Humans engaged in this greatest battle of all times and started defending the galaxy. With all three parts of the game, the storyline of this Game of the Generation is very well written and acted upon and it provides with a great engaging and thrilling gameplay along with fantastic graphics, open world gaming environment and characters. Try it out and enjoy a brilliant experience of Action, Stealth, Third-person Shooting and RPG elements.
#20 Mass Effect 3
Mass Effect 3 by Bio Ware is an Action-Adventure, Sci-Fi, Stealth and Shooting video game. The game takes you to a setting on earth where you can see Commander Shepard forcefully working on the project Cerberus. The earth loses contact with its extra solar assets and a huge alien invasion occurs. Commander Shepard flees the Laboratory with the help of Admiral Anderson and Kaidan Alenko and Admiral Hacket orders him to go to mars and seek help from the allies in all the four quadrants. You as the protagonist must return with allies and defend earth against the enemy. You must also find Liara T’Soni because she knows the place where Porthean Weapon is located. Your only objective now is to bring the Porthean Weapon in place and defeat the Reapers. Porthean Weapon is the only hope so you must find it and be the bringer of the peace. Mass Effect 3 features a great story, action and stealth filled game-play and an open world gaming environment for you to play and enjoy this thrilling video game.
#21 Max Payne
Max Payne is an action and a Third-person Shooter video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Gathering of Developers and Rockstar Games. The game revolves around the character of Max Payne, a detective in NYPD (New York Police Department). In the game, Max Payne follows the footprints of the killer who murdered his whole family. The story of the game draws the inspiration from the novels of Micky Spillane. Max Payne features fast-paced action and adventure filled game-play along with superbly crafted graphics. Being available on multiple platforms like PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Gameboy Advance, iOS and Android, Max Payne sold over 7.5 million copies worldwide and inspired a feature film under the same title. With all the fantastic Action and Thrill, Neo-Noir style, amazing graphic Novel Panels, Cut Scenes, Voice-Overs and the brilliant Narrative of the game, Max Payne offers a truly very amazing and brilliant Third-person Shooting gaming. Max Payne offers a number of cool weapons such as Semi-Automatic Pistols, Shot Guns, Aks, Grenades and lot of others and allows you to also use melee weapons while being close proximity to the enemies. The game lets you Dual Wield some of the weapons and allows yo to keep your health at max by using the Painkillers and keep on unleashing hell on the enemy soldiers. Max Payne offers the cool Bullet Time feature throughout the series that allows you to use the Slow Motion features while attacking your enemies and that helps save yourself from the incoming bullets. Furthermore the “Dead on Arrival” mode lets you use Seven Saves feature that helps you re-spawn if you are dead in the game for Seven Times. With all the fantastic and fast-paced action, thrill and drama, Max Payne is one of the best ever Third-person Shooting games. Try it out if you haven’t yet and enjoy the ultimate fun.