Fable 2
Fable 2 is a brilliant Open World Action-RPG video game created by Lionhead Studios. Fable 2 offers gameplay and mechanics similar to its predecessor. Released back in 2008 Fable II won the best game of the year award because of its unique story and all the fantastic characters and a brilliant Story-driven gameplay. Set in the vicinity of fictional Land of Albion, Fable II offers a story after the events of the main game Fable and takes you to the Colonial Era, the era of highwaymen and Enlightenment. Guns and ammunition is still missing from the gameplay but the small towns have now turned into giant buildings and castles and Fable II lets you choose between the male and female characters. Fable II offers both interactive and non interactive cut scenes throughout the game that never last for more than five minutes. As a true companion, Fable II allows you to have a Companion in the game, a Dog that the main character befriends as a child and it stays with him for the rest of the story. The Dog can help you eliminate the enemies or perform a number of tasks for you or simply lead you to the Quest objectives. one fantastic thing about your companion is that it never dies and that means a full time support while you are playing the game.Unlike Fable, Fable II lets you build relationships in the game, you can get married, have children, raise a family and enjoy your life in the game as you would like to. Character morphing is one of the most prominent features of the game that totally depends on the actions of the characters in the game, you can be Good, Evil or Pure or Corrupt just according to your activities in the game. In other words, you can say that the game actually lets you build a personality that totally depends what you want to be. The Job system in the game lets you complete a number of different jobs and get paid accordingly, earn money, feed your family and keep on going with your life. With a brilliantly immersive gameplay, fantastic Quests, NPCs, a great storyline, amazing characters, Co-=Op multiplayer support and loads of other fun things, Fable II offers a best ever Action-RPG experience ever.
#1 Dante’s Inferno
Dante’s Inferno is a fantastic Single and Multiplayer Hack and Slash and Action-Adventure video game by Visceral Games and Artificial Mind and Movement. The game features the protagonist Dante, a Crusader laced up with his primary weapon Death Scythe and the Holy Cross. According to the Storyline, Dante goes on a mission to eliminate the Hell’s Minions and engages into epic Combats, Platform and environmental Puzzles. The story takes another turn when the King goes on to search for a Holy Relic that is hidden under the folds of mystic environments. The king entrusts Dante with all the prisoners but Dante kills the Prisoners and the King sends him to find the Holy Relic as to punish him. Dante embarks on an epic journey to find the Holy Relic and reaches down to the Palace of King Saladin where he gets stabbed multiple times by the Assassins. Wounded badly, Dante returns back to Florence, Italy to his Father and his one true Love Beatrice, but instead finds them dead. Beatrice’s Soul appears in front of him and tells him all about how she and Dante’s father got killed. Dante Vows to revenge and descends into an opening into the ground at the spot where Hell and Earth borders. Dante reaches to the Hell’s Gate where he encounters the Minions of Lucifer, starts killing them selflessly, encounters Lucifer and kills him after a series of fast-paced and Action-filled melee combats. Dante then finds the Holy Relic and the game concludes. With a very interesting story, state of the art visuals and a super thrilling game-play, Dante’s Inferno is a wonderful game to play.
#2 Guacamelee!
Guacamelee! Is a fantastic Action-Adventure, Beat em’ Up, Hack and Slash and RPG video game that features the player character named as Juan who embarks on a journey to save the El President’s Daughter. Juan is basically a wrestler type of character who uses punches and special skills to eliminate his enemies and to defeat the bosses. Guacamelee! Enables you to use grapple attack on your enemies and once they are in close range, kick them out for good using your iron hands. This brilliant fighting and beat em’ up game mostly focuses on melee combats and allows you to enjoy a side-scrolling game-play, with amazingly well designed mechanics and visuals. Every enemy kill awards you with coins that you can use to buy upgrades and stuff. With an amazing amount of challenging puzzles, ability to switch between the land of dead and the land of the living, fast-paced action and thrill filled game-play and all the wonderful things, Guacamelee! Is one amazing game to play.
#3 Toukiden: The Age of Demons
Toukiden: The Age of Demons is a great replacement of Monster Hunter. This radiant Action-Adventure and RPG video game is a Sony Exclusive and takes you to an amazing Medieval setting of Ancient Japan. The game sets you up as a Warrior named Mononofu, a specialized Ninja like Warrior and the ultimate weapon against the Hellish Demons known as Oni. Just like Monster Hunter, Lord of Arcana etc. your task is to fight of the Demons, slay them and craft weapons and other items with their horns and bones etc. Toukiden: The Age of Demons offers a really unique combat system and mostly features melee combats and forces you into amazing head on rivalries. With superbly written storyline, well balanced mechanics, super cool visuals and an immersive game-play, Tokiden: The Age of Demons is a wonderful alternative to Monster Hunter.
#4 Conception 2: Children of the Seven Stars
Conception 2: Children of the Seven Stars by Spike Chunsoft is an Action-RPG video game. The game focuses on the character named as Wake Archus who becomes the ultimate Monster Hunter and the savior of the realm after finding out the Star God Sign on his hand and the death of his sister by the monsters. Wake gets into the school of individuals like him and starts enhancing his abilities to get deep into the Dusk Circles (The place where monsters appear) and kill the monsters. Because of the high amount of Ether in his body, his ability to go into the labyrinths of Dusk Circles and using the Star Energy makes him God’s Gift and he becomes famous all around. By creating the Star Child with the help of an S-rank female student, Wake ultimately gets able to eliminate all the monsters and dark forces once and for all. You are required to act as Wake Archus and complete the game objectives. With a number of great quests, amazing combats with monsters, hardcore action and thrill based game-play and wonderful visuals, Conception 2: Children of the Seven Stars is a great RPG game to play and enjoy.
#5 Legend of Mana
Legend of Mana is a wonderful Single and multiplayer Action-RPG video game by Square. The game offers a non-linear game-play and lets you engage yourself into real-time battles with enemies, allows you to manipulate your surroundings simply by using the Land make System, Enjoy going on epic quests and have loads of fun. Legend of Mana is the Fourth main inclusion to the series of Mana that made presence in the markets after the popular Seiken Densetsu 3. The game is set in High Fantasy and allows you to be an unnamed hero who goes on epic quests and tries to restore the Land of Fa’Diel and the Tree of Mana. With its unique gameplay style, Legend of Mana allows you to shape the world around you as you like by using the unique Land Make System, generate and build new Regions of land, enjoy Non-Linear gameplay in epic quests and enjoy it to the limits. With millions of copies sold worldwide, Legend of Mana is a true predecessor of all the games of this specific genre and gameplay style. Legend of Mana offers beautiful visuals, addictive gameplay and loads of fun things to discover.
#6 Bastion
Bastion is a Wonderful Action-RPG video game developed by Supergiant Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game lets you control The Kid, move though floating platforms in a fantasy-based environment, fight enemies, collect Shards of Rocks, Use magical powers and different weapons (Swords, Hammers, knives etc.) in epic enemy encounters, explore and solve puzzles in World of Caelondia and enjoy the ultimate fun. With wonderful graphics, and challenging game-play, Bastion is a wonderful game to play. One brilliant feature of the game is the Dynamic Voice-over presented in a beautiful 2D environment and the Isometric Camera view makes it even more involving. For all the hardcore Action-RPG enthusiasts, Bastion offers hours of pure entertainment, so do try this one out.
#7 Valhalla Knights 3
Valhalla Knights 3 comes from Japanese top ranking developer K2 LLC and publishers Marvelous AQL and XSEED Games. The game is a marvelous blend of Action-Adventure and RPG elements and is available to play on PlayStation Vita only. Valhalla Knights 3 features the protagonist who starts his search of a legendary treasure left behind by a spy who was charged with treason against the government. The game lets the player choose your character from any one of the four given races of Elves, Humans, Halflings and Dwarfs. Protagonist leads his/her team and reaches to a prison only to be attacked by the guardians of the prison. The protagonist finds out the info about the treasure whereabouts and locates it back to the W. Flockheart prison, reaches to the prison with a fellow spy “Carlos” and engages in combats against the prisoners and the guardians of the W. Flockheart prison. The protagonist returns empty handed because of the heavy opposition and resistance and starts killing the heads of the prison in charge families and finally reaches to Bartess Family head, knocks him down, pick up the treasure map and leaves the premises. Valhalla Knights 3 is the best Action-Adventure and RPG video game to play and it will definitely entertain you enough for countless hours.
#8 Gun
Gun, developed by “Neversoft” in collaboration with “Beenox” and “Rebellion Developments”, published by “Activision” is a westerner style action-adventure, RPG and shooting video game. Game features the protagonist “Colton White” who travels town to town and fighting off the Bandits and law-offending insurgents. The protagonist in his adventures kills animals and causes mayhems wherever necessary to save himself from the police and gunslingers. Player gets to use weapons like revolvers, shotguns and bows according to the situation and uses explosives to divert the attention of his enemies or to kill them. “Gun” with an open world, super fine HD graphics, an appealing storyline and a thrilling game-play, is a fast-paced action and adventure packed video game that entertains you enough to get lost in the act. You should definitely try it. “Gun” is available to play on PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 and PlayStation Portable.
#9 Legacy of Kain
Legacy of Kain is a Dark Fantasy, Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash and Single-player video game series developed and published by Crystal Dynamics. The series takes place in the dark-fantasy-themed world called Nosgoth and Legacy of Kain is the first game in the series. It combines the elements of puzzle, exploration, role-playing and action and the story revolves around the protagonist named Kain, as he attempts to defy his destiny and struggle to restore the peace of his world. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver is another entry in the series and introduces a new playable character named as Raziel. In the beginning, the game requires choosing your character to get into the world full of monsters and vampires. Your ultimate task is to navigate the environment from a third-person perspective, fight against hordes of enemies using a sword and take down them to earn experience points. The series consists of different entries such as Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Soul Reaver 2, Blood Omen 2, Legacy of Kain: Defiance, and more. With prominent features and addictive gameplay, Legacy of Kain is the best series of play and enjoy.
#10 Salt and Sanctuary
Salt and Sanctuary offers an Action Role-playing, and Platformer gameplay created and published by Ska Studios. The game has an exciting story, revolving around the protagonist who travels around the world in a ship that is also loaded with a princess from an unnamed territory who is to be married to the king of opposing country to prevent war. A team of marauders attacks the ship, slaughtering the crew. After killing the group of murderers, the protagonist escapes to the deck with the princess where they discover the giant sea monster known as Cthulhu. After the ship wrecked, the protagonist reaches to a mysterious Island where he must face deadly creatures, fight against them and complete a set of missions to earn points to progress. As the game advances, other levels will be unlocked to play. The game introduces more than 600 weapons, armor pieces and lots of items to use during the gameplay. With the realistic environment, superb mechanics, Role-playing elements, and smooth controls, Salt and Sanctuary is the exciting game to play.
#11 God Eater: Resurrection
God Eater: Resurrection is the perfect combination of Action-Adventure, Japanese Role-playing, and Anime elements developed by Bandai Namco Studio and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment for Multiple Platforms. The game features the thrilling gameplay for hardcore players and introduces the beautiful cast of anime characters. In the storyline, an evil struggles to take over all the forms and want to rule over the entire globe. The player assumes the role of the hunter who is the last hope of the world. It comes with more than 100 hours of content and introduces immersive storyline and deep character development. The robust battle system is also present and the player will experience the engaging mission-based gameplay in the unique post-apocalyptic setting. Three additional players are featured in an online or co-op mode. After selecting the character, the player needs to manipulate the world from a third-person viewpoint, take down enemies to earn points using a huge arsenal of both ranged and modern weapons. God Eater: Resurrection includes prominent features such as Detailed Environment, Third-person Exploration, XP Points System, Ranged Weapons, and more. Check it out, and have fun.
#12 Secret of Mana Game
Secret of Mana Game is an Action-Adventure, Arcade, and Single-player video game developed by Square Enix. Throughout the gameplay, the player controls a character who terrains and fights against the hostile creatures. The game comes up with three characters, such as the hero, the girl, and the sprite, named Randi, Primm, and Popoi.
The player can switch between the characters at any time of the game. In the multiplayer mode, three-player consecutively controlling three characters will jump together in the mission. Each character possesses individual strengths and weaknesses where the player can upgrade the levels of abilities. The hero is unable to use magic but is a master of utilizing weapons at a quicker rate.
The girl can serve as a healer and cast spells upon enemies, whereas the sprite can casts offensive magic to damage enemies. A power bar at the bottom of the screen determines the amount of damage. Each character gets increment in leveling up and improves in areas such as strength and attack.