Far Cry
Far Cry is a Fast-paced Action and War-based Tactical First-person Shooter (FPS) video game series developed by Crytek and Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. With a lot of similarities to the Battlefield and its predecessors, Far Cry is one of the best Action games to play. The whole series features the character of a protagonist who single handedly or with teams, battles against the hostile enemies and uses the weapons of his choice as he advances according to the story of any game of the series specifically. The game features striking open world environments that cover the lands from the Himalayas to Africa, lets the players edit or create totally new maps, most sophisticated sets of graphics along with a compelling storyline and multiplayer gaming option. If you really want to experience an impressive and thrilling game-play, you must try Far Cry and enjoy the ultimate Action, Thrill, Shooting, and Drama altogether. Far Cry is available to play on
#1 HalfLife 2: Deathmatch
HalfLife 2: Deathmatch is an Action filled FPS and MMO video game by Valve Corporation. The game lets you be part of the game-play by choosing sides (Red or Blue Team) and weapons of your choice. Half-Life 2: Deathmatch is a Multiplayer game, so it allows you take part in Team Deathmatch and kill the enemies by the help of your team mates. In Deathmatch you act alone and your only objective is to kill other online challengers and earn experience points, but in Team Deathmatch you can be part of a team (Rebels or Combine) and your objective is to kill enemy team’s members. Missions like Capturing the Flag, Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch etc are all packed with blasting action and are a great source to enjoy the game. The single player campaign is also quite fun. You can remain in contact with your team in real time audio transmission or you can be a silent member of the team. Half-Life 2: Deathmatch is a wonderful Action, First Person Shooter and MMO video game that offers great narrative, beautifully created visuals and an immersive game-play to enjoy.
#2 Insurgency
Insurgency is a great addition to the Action, FPS and RPG genres. The game offers Brilliant MMO aesthetics and lets you engage yourself into epic Team-based encounters with the enemies. You can select your teams (U.S. Marines or Insurgents), Use your amazing Tactical Skills to lead your teams, use state of the art and advanced weapons to eliminate your enemies and complete the exciting game objectives. Insurgency lets you be part of a 16 member team in which you can choose a player class from a number of choices (Rifleman, Support, Gunner, Engineer, Marksman etc.), get into the play and drop some enemies. Insurgency offers brilliantly easy controls, cool visuals and an addictive game-play all made blasting with 20 types of different weapons, 27 different game maps, 9 Multiplayer game modes, 4 Co-Op Multiplayer Modes, Offline practice Mode, loads of upgrades and custom map creation options. Insurgency is one of the mega hits of this specific genre and it’ll definitely entertain you good.
#3 Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 is a wonderfully engaging Single and Multiplayer FPS video game by Valve Corporation that allows you to join one of the two mercenary teams, select your character from 9 main classes (Scouts, Soldiers, Pyro, Demomen, Heavy, Engineer, Medic, Sniper and Spy) and battle against the enemies by using state of the art weaponry and tactics. The objective of the game is to protect the company assets owned by two brothers who are in conflict with one another and they have hired a number of mercenaries to eliminate the other side and to seize control of the company. You can select any side and act accordingly in order to eliminate your enemies and win the epic combats. Team Fortress 2 offers wonderfully engaging game modes such as Capture the Flag, King of the Hill, Deathmatch, team Deathmatch etc. and allows you to use different weapons and tactics to kill the enemies. With a great deal of DLC, upgrades, loads of amazing Perks, great visual details and a thrilling game-play, Team Fortress 2 offers a wonderful FPS gaming experience.
#4 Interstellar Marines
Interstellar Marines Developed by the Zero Point Software, Interstellar Marines is a wonderful Action, RPG, FPS and Horror-Survival video game that takes you on some amazing missions in the 22nd century. The game tasks you to go on epic space exploration missions, hunt for the resources, face the challenges, dangers and get the ultimate rewards while encountering the alien enemies. Discover the true nature of ultimate space adventures, engage yourself into epic conflicts and be the heroes and the saviors of the human race. With some amazingly customized game modes, Unique combination of RPG and Tactical elements, Futuristic weaponry and advanced battle tactics, brilliant characters, interactive open world gaming environments, super cool visual details, a great story and an engagingly immersive game-play, Interstellar Marines is a marvelous addition to this specific genre. Try it out for an out of this world Action, RPG and FPS gaming experience, you’ll definitely love playing this game.
#5 The Darkness 2
The Darkness 2 is a wonderful FPS, RPG and Psychological Horror-Survival video game by Digital Extremes. You’ll have to control the character of Jackie Estacado, the leader of the Franchetti Criminal Family. Your task is to act as Jackie Estacado, use your Dark powers against the rival gang that recently attacked you, eliminate them and enjoy engaging yourself into amazingly haunting and psychological horror filled game-play. Exploration, artifacts and items collection, amazingly blasting enemy encounters and the deep prowess of dark powers makes this game more and more involving as you further flow with the story-line. With a great dark setting, unbelievably stressing situations, and your ability to cater with the problems, hardcore encounters with the bizarre creatures and enemies, loads of cool weapons to shoot down the enemies, super fine and dramatic event depictions, eye-catching visuals and a brilliant story, The Darkness 2 is one amazing game to play and enjoy.
#6 Left 4 Dead 2
Left 4 Dead 2 is a Zombie, Horror Survival video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. Left 4 Dead 2 is a First-person Shooter video game set on a global scale, infected by the Green Flu which is responsible to transform humans into extremely aggressive and deadly zombies. The story of the game revolves around the four survivors Coach, Ellis, Nick and Rochelle who are immune to the flu. In order to survive they travel from place to place items like food, medicines, weapons etc. You can choose one of the characters as protagonist and play the game. Because of being the main character of the game you act as their leader. The game allows you to use different firearms and melee weapons according to the scenario on a specific point in the game. For example if you encounter a zombie or multiple in the shape of hordes, you can engage in close combats using melee weapons, and if you are on a safe distance you can use guns like Pistols or snipers to shoot down the zombies. The game provides you with a multiplayer gaming mode, so you can play with other online players too. You also get to play 5 campaigns, in which you get provided with safe houses and check points and a goal to survive till the end of the campaign. Left 4 Dead 2 is an amazingly addictive and quite thrilling game with a super action and adventure packed game-play. Left 4 Dead 2 is available to play on Windows, Mac, Xbox, Steam and Linux platforms.
#7 PayDay 2
PayDay 2 is First-person Shooter, Tactical Co-operative Multiplayer and Stealth video game. Game kicks off after the events of its predecessor PayDay and introduces a New Gang of Washington D.C. The game allows you to be a member of that Gang and go heisting banks, robbing Jewelry Shops, stealing Cars, Distributing Narcotics and stealing whatever you want in Washington D.C. along with 2 AI players or team up with friends and enjoy amazing Co-Operative Multiplayer gaming. With an Action-packed game-play and all the super thriller nature, PayDay 2 is a blast. If you love playing games like PayDay 2, the following Action-packed titles would definitely be of your great interest. Let’s have a look at some of the best alternatives to PayDay 2.
#8 Counter Strike: Global Offensive
Counter Strike: Global Offensive or shortly abbreviated as CS: GO is an Online Multiplayer Tactical First Person Shooter Video game by Valve Corporation. Released back in 2012, the game offers amazing amounts of classic content such as new maps, characters, and game modes, cross-platform multiplayer game-play, regular updates and a huge amount of DLC. With an amazingly immersive objective-based multiplayer FPS game-play, Counter Strike: Global Offensive lets you join the teams (Counter-Terrorist Force or the Terrorists) and eliminate your enemies by the use of sophisticated weaponry and Tactics. Counter Strike: Global Offensive offers a number of fantastic and quite addictive game modes such as Classic Casual, Competitive, Bomb Scenario, Hostage Scenario, Arms Race, Demolition, Deathmatch etc. Furthermore, the game allows you to play the game offline with bots and enjoy all the fun. The Online Play option lets you go against your enemies, be part of a team and keep on enjoying the game. With a unique matchmaking system, Online game availability via Steam, Anti Cheat system, Dedicated Servers, Unique Elo Rating System, beautiful visuals and an addictive gameplay entertaining millions of online players, Counter Strike: Global Offensive is one of the most played and well liked game in the Counter Strike series.
#9 Half Life
Half-Life is a Super Thrilling Sci-Fi FPS (First person Shooter) video game by Valve Corporation. This brilliant game is one of the trend setters in FPS genre and it provided with a wonderful FPS series of games that actually ruled over the world. With a huge following and a worldwide acclaim, Half-Life was one of the best game of its time. Sci-Fi and FPS characteristics, great mechanics and an engaging game-play made the players love this game. The game is set in a Remote Desert situated in the City of New Mexico and it takes you to the premises of Black mesa Research Facility, a Secret Complex that resembles greatly to the Area 51. Half Life lets you be a skilled Scientist and a Theoretical Physicist and tells the story of the events and aftermath of a Black Mesa Experiment gone wrong. The Experiment goes horribly wrong and as a result an undefinable Phenomenon happens that opens up portals in the facility and the Aliens swarm down.No your task is to survive by killing the alien enemies at sight because they have no mercy for humans at all. on the other hand HECU (Hazardous Environment Combat Unit) keeps on struggling against the aliens. In order to stop the widespread chaos and panic HECU tries to suppress the matter by confiscating all of the data and Scientists related to the Incident. Freeman gets barred to but soon with the help of fellow scientists he reaches down to the other end of the portal, in the Xen territory in order to eliminate the Nihilanth, who is keeping the portal opened. Half Life offers a strong and fantastic narrative, great story amazing gameplay as well as loads of fantastic perks, cool weapons etc.
#10 Serious Sam 3: BFE
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a single and multiplayer First-person Shooter video game that takes place in a futuristic era of 22nd century in Egypt. Serious Sam 3: BFE allows you to engage yourself in a fast-paced and action-packed game-play and fight against the huge numbers of enemies in an open world. You can have all the traditional and futuristic weapons you want and kill the enemies by strategic assaults and counter attacks. Different types of enemies show different levels of resistance so choice of weapons matters a lot. On every enemy kill, game awards you with experience points that can be used to buy upgrades. The core game-play of Serious Sam 3: BFE greatly resembles to the one on Serious Sam and allows you to experience and amazing blend of futuristic and old gaming environments and settings. Being a great shooter game with a super-fast and addictive game-play, this game will surely provide you with an amazing experience of FPS gaming.
#11 Counter Strike
Counter-Strike is a fast-paced and action-filled tactical FPS (First Person Shooter) video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. The game offers a war-based action and thrilling gameplay and features a competitive and challenging environment, a great and appealing storyline, and enhanced graphics. It presents a player-controlled protagonist who acts alone or can lead teams of characters like himself and engages in combats with the hostiles in a war-based environment.
Due to the multiplayer nature of the game series, players on a network or globally using the internet can play as teams or on opposite sides as enemies. In addition, it provides various world maps, team-based and vehicular warfare, and a unique experience of first-first-person gaming. You’ll definitely enjoy playing it.
#12 Hitman: Episode 2 Sapienza
Hitman: Episode 2 Sapienza is a Downloadable Content for Action-Adventure and Stealth video game Hitman, developed and published by To-interactive A/S. The DLC pack takes the player to the sunny Italian coastal town of Sapienza, a location packed with opportunities for the protagonist and lots of challenges to complete. During the gameplay, the player has to track down Silvio Caruso and eliminate the dangerous virus in this mission. The new episode comes with new challenges, weapons, targets, starting locations, and more as well as the entire new town to explore. The player takes on the role of the protagonist, an assassin named as Agent 47, who can explore the world from a third-person perspective, use stealth element to take down enemies silently, and fulfill the missions to earn money and gain experience. The player navigates the environment freely and can use a huge arsenal of weaponry including a sniper rifle, machine gun, pistol, and more. Hitman: Episode 2 Sapienza offers a detailed environment, prominent features, non-player characters, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#13 Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! Developed by 2K Australia is an amazingly thrilling and Action-Packed First-Person Shooter video game. The story of the game revolves around the character of the protagonist Jack who works for Hyperion Corporation. The company loses its Helios Space Station to Military after the Operation Lost Legion and sends you in along with four playable characters. Your task is to fight off the captives from Helios Space Station and regain the control by defeating the Lost Legion. The game lets you interact with a lot of NPCs and switch between the four playable characters according to the needs and the situations you go through. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! offers super best visuals, a great story, a lot of weapons and upgrades etc. For a great FPS experience, you must play this action-filled game, it’ll leave you spellbound for sure.