Gears of War: Judgment
Gears of War: Judgment by Epic Games and People Can Fly is a wonderful Military Themed, Action-Adventure, Stealth, Sci-Fi and a Third-Person Shooter video game. The game revolves around the protagonist and his companions who are a part of Kilo Squad, an undercover Special Ops Unit. The protagonist Damon Baird starts off the story by telling the court what happened during the Emergency Day when the locust seized the control over Sera. Story goes on and the game puts you into the character of Damon Baird who uses his best Action, Stealth, and Combat skills to neutralize the enemies while leading the Kilo Squad on the emergency day and events related to that. The super action oriented game-play and abilities like killing the enemies as a ghost, using the most dangerous techniques and weapons like silenced guns, fiber wires, knives and a lot of other things makes this game a wonderful piece of art if we compare it to a lot of other names. Great visual details, an addictive game-play and a catchy story is what puts this game right into the list of game like Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.
#1 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.
#2 Dead to Rights: Retribution
This Rebooted version of the popular game Dead to Rights is packed with fantastic Action-Adventure, RPG and Third-person Shooting elements. Dead to Rights: Retribution kicks off with the protagonist Jack fighting with the Grant City Triad members. He gets beaten up badly and was nearly killed by the triad when suddenly Jack’s Canine friend Shadow appears at the scene. Shadow kills all the four members of Triad and Jack fades off. Story continues Jack gets healed and leaves to complete the main objective of the game, killing the antagonist Riggs. Riggs hears about Jack and flees to another of his safe houses but Jack catches him and after a long run of thrilling and hardcore battle with Riggs and all of his accomplices, kills him and the game concludes. Dead to Rights: Retribution provides with an awesome combination of Shooting, Survival, and RPG elements along with a great storyline, super crystal clear 3D graphics and a huge amount of other great features. Do try it out, you’ll definitely like it.
#3 Wanted: Weapons of Fate
Wanted: Weapons of Fate is an Action-Thriller and a Third-person Shooter Video game developed by Grin. The game lets you be the protagonist Wesley Gibson who becomes an Assassin and heads an organization named The Fraternity and is a head of the League of Assassins. You must start your journey to find the truth about the assassination of your family, to hunt down the Immortal and to complete the French Chapter. In your journey to the truth, you will face a lot of different enemies and you must kill them all in order to reach to the Immortal. Sloan is another story molding character of the game who gives you the false kill order of eliminating your own father and after knowing the truth you must also find and kill him to complete one of the main game objectives. Swat like soldiers, Brummel, Arana are among the worst enemies you’ll face in the game. Wanted: Weapons of Fate allows you to use beautifully crafted weapons and advanced combat tactics. The ability to slow down the time and curve the bullets in air are two great abilities that you can use against your enemies. Wanted: Weapons of Fate is marvelous amalgamation of Action and Shooting elements and it will surely entertain you to the limits.
#4 Ninja Gaiden 3
Ninja Gaiden 3 offers a brilliant Combination of Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash, RPG and Ninja Assassin aesthetics. The game features the protagonist Ryu who gets summoned by the Self Defense Force (SDF) of Japan currently fighting against a massive Terrorist Organization run by the most notorious leader The Alchemist. Ryu joins the Self Defense Force of Japan, starts fighting against the Alchemist forces and himself, captures him in East London. After the Capture of Alchemist, another group of terrorist’s attacks Ryu, The Alchemist gets free and Ryu gets beaten and wounded badly. The Alchemist flees the scene leaving Ryu at the scene, alive but with severe injuries. A chunk of time passes, Ryu gets himself right, follows the Footsteps of The Alchemist and finds him taking refuge in the Rub-Al-Khali, a desert covering almost the Third of the Arabian Peninsula. In order to eliminate The Alchemist, Ryu fights off hordes of his accomplices and finally reaches to Alchemist’s Den where he gets into a One on One melee Combat with The Alchemist and kills him after a long run of bloody fight. Ryu Returns to Japan and the Story Concludes after the demise of Alchemist and his Terrorist organization. Ninja Gaiden 3 offers a fantastic mix-up of multiple genres such as Action, Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash elements along with a wonderful story, great visuals and an immersive game-play.
#5 Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z
Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is a cool Third-person Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash, RPG and Beat ‘em’ Up video game from the Ninja Gaiden series. The story of the game revolves around the character of Yaiba Kamikaze, a Ninja with special Ninja and Skills and abilities. After an outrage in the Clan, Yaiba Kamikaze turns against all of his Clan Elders and kills them and soon after that challenges Ryu Hayabusa, the leader of the clan. After a series of combats, Ryu Hayabusa slices up Yaiba’s left arm and that results in the death of Yaiba. After being resurrected, Yaiba Kamikaze emerges from the dead and follows the trail of Ryu Hayabusa, encounters him one last time and kills him. After killing Ryu Hayabusa, Yaiba finds out that the Forge Industries is manipulating every event from the very start and the recent Zombie outbreak is one of its doing. Yaiba travels to Ukraine where Russian Army invades Ukraine and the protagonist teams up with the Ukrainians and fight off against the forces and zombies all together and finally brings down the Forge Industries along with all of its owners and plotters. With great story, an amazingly engaging game-play and a lot of other cool things, Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is a great Action-Adventure and RPG game to play and enjoy. try it out and you’ll love every bit of this brilliant game.
#6 Stranglehold
Stranglehold developed by Tiger Hill Entertainment and published by Midway Games is an awesome action-thriller and Third-person shooter video game. With Unreal Engine 3.0, this game is presented for PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game kicks off with a Hong Kong police officer gone missing. The kidnappers ask for ransom and upon the police chief’s suspicion, the department sends in a squad but inspector Tequila Yuan the protagonist, goes in alone to the Kowloon triad and the action begins. As the hatred against inspector Yuan, among the four gangs (Dragon Claw, Golden Kane, Imperial Nine and Zakarov Syndicate), all of them gather in an allegiance and begin to hunt him down. Inspector Tequila goes deep into the enemy territory and starts collecting evidences and upon the attacks from enemies he slashes them down in heavy gunfights and close combats until he finds the core of the enemy operations and destroys it. Upon finding the kidnapped police officer he brings him back to the police station and the drama concludes. Stranglehold features a fast-paced action and adventure game-play along with superbly drawn graphics and a unique storyline. Upon playing this marvel, you’ll definitely get lost in the act.
#7 Devil May Cry
Devil May Cry video game series is a story of a character named Dante whose ultimate goal is to avenge the murder of his mother by eliminating the demons. The protagonist goes through heavy combats with the devils hacking and slashing all the evil forces using his battling tactics and all the available resources like weapons, skills and objects. With a huge success, Devil May Cry sold multi million copies worldwide and recently the company rebooted the series with another blockbuster game DMC: Devil May Cry. Devil May Cry is co-developed by Capcom and Ninja Theory and published by Capcom for multiple platforms like Microsoft Windows, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and iOS. Do try this game out and enjoy the ultimate fun and thrill.
#8 Devil May Cry 4
Devil May Cry 4 is the latest addition to the already trending and one of the most played series Devil May Cry. The game offers a marvelous combination of Action-Adventure and Hack and Slash elements and tells the story of a new character named as Nero. Nero possesses multiple demonic powers and is on a mission to encounter the main character, Dante. In the previous game, Dante assassinates the Demons from the Order of the Sword along with their Leader and removes them from existence. The story starts off where it ended in the previous game, and the player gets to control both Dante and Nero. Both of the main characters are now hunting down the Evil and have similar goals. Devil May Cry 4 focuses on close combats including the Melee and allows the players to use different weapons such as Firearms, Swords and loads of other things to Hack and Slash their way through the hordes of demonic enemies. Devil May Cry 4 offers an engaging gameplay, revamped game mechanics, and new characters and rebuilt graphics and offers a great Action-focused experience to all the hardcore fans of the series.
#9 Painkiller: Hell and Damnation
Painkiller: Hell and Damnation is an Action, RPG, MMO and episodic video game by People can Fly. Painkiller: Hell and Damnation consists of five Episodes and each chapter is of five game levels. You can use almost all kinds of weapons to kill massive numbers of your enemies/monsters. Painkiller: Hell and Damnation provides with different game settings, and it lets you be part of a team or play alone against the enemies, explore the game world filled with different structures like Castles, Monasteries, Opera houses, Graveyards etc. and kill your enemies by engaging into fights and gun battles. Painkiller: Hell and Damnation also lets you fight against the huge boss monsters and clear the level with a lot of power ups and stuff. Multiplayer gaming mode provides a chance to play the game with or against your friends by choosing a side and enjoy it even more. Painkiller: Hell and Damnation offers a great story-line, enhanced visuals and an engaging game-play to enjoy. Do try it out for an epic Action, FPS and MMO experience.
#10 Prototype
Prototype is an Action-Adventure, RPG, Stealth and Third-person Shooter video game by Activision. The game offers an Open World Environment, and it is set in Manhattan, USA. Prototype follows the character of an Amnesic and powerful Shapeshifter named as Alex Mercer, who sets out to fight against the Blacklight, a deadly plague that consumes the humanity of Individuals and converts them into altered ferocious monsters. Alex keeps on fighting the monsters as well as finding the truth about his lost past. Struggling hard against the monsters, Alex also comes into massive conflict with the US military and the operatives of Blackwatch, a Black operation force. With the freedom to roam free, Alex keeps on getting farther into the enemy territory and finding the secrets while the player controls the character of Alex Mercer. Prototype offers plenty of room for gameplay along with sophisticated weaponry, fantastic graphics quality, and excellent combat mechanics. Prototype provides the ability to experience the game in Sandbox style while playing it and enjoy it even more. With its amazingly addictive nature, Prototype is one of the most played and liked Action-Adventure, Stealth, and Shooter video game. It also has a sequel named as Prototype 2 that expands the story to further distances and enhances the great experience. Do try it out.
#11 Prototype 2
Prototype 2 is an Action-Adventure, RPG, Third-person Shooter, Stealth and an open world game. The game lets you be the protagonist James Heller who vows to avenge the murders of his family because of the Black Virus spread by the antagonist Alex Mercer. James holds Alex responsible for the virus outbreak and goes on a quest to find both Black Virus origins and Alex Mercer. Heller uses his super-human abilities to fight against the black forces and reaches to Blacknet’s Facility where he hacks into the system and destroys a lot of their plans. He tracks down Dr. Koenig and finds out that he has the same abilities as himself, gets into conflict with him, consumes him and goes on to find Mercer. Heller reaches to Green Zone and finds Sabrina Galloway and teams up with her as she promises to help him track down Mercer. After an extreme struggle they find out Mercer, who kills Father Guerra, Heller finds his corpse and encounters Mercer in the Red Zone. A huge combat starts, Mercer gets wounded badly and falls down, Heller finds his daughter but Galloway betrays him and hands his daughter to Mercer. Mercer consumes Galloway and others and the combat starts again between the two and in the end Heller consumes and kills Mercer and frees his daughter. Prototype 2 just like its story is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#12 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.
#13 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.
#14 I Am Alive
I Am Alive is an Action-Adventure and a Horror Survival video game developed by Ubisoft Shanghai and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 gaming platforms. The game is set in a Post-apocalyptic era and sheds light on some of the most drastic and hazardous elements like the timidity of a dystopian world and human’s darkest inclinations to brutality and avariciousness. In a world mostly destroyed by mega earthquakes, most of the humanity gets left without resources, government tries to help but all the efforts are useless and the population gets agitated and violent in order to survive. The protagonist Carlo Mestroni after losing his wife and daughter gets back to his home for his belongings and finds a little girl named Mei who is trying to find her mother and gives Carlo a walkie talkie. Carlo contacts his friend and agrees bringing Mei to him. On his way to Henry, a dust storm stops their way and forces them to take shelter in a mall. Upon reaching to Henry, Carlo gets to know that Mei’s mother is kidnapped by the local killers taking refuge in a hotel. Carlo sets out to free her and reaches the hotel where he engages in combats and heavy gunfights against the hordes of killers and finally frees Mei’s mother. Carlo gets back with Mei’s mother and after uniting those two, leaves for his own family and the game continues. I Am Alive is a super best Action-Adventure video game for all those who love playing games with similar aesthetics. I Am Alive provides with a brilliantly addictive game-play, beautifully created 3D graphics and a brilliant story for the game.
#15 Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil 5 is an Action-Adventure, RPG, Horror-Survival and Shooting game developed and published by Capcom. The story of the game revolves around the protagonist Chris Redfield and a secondary character Sheva Alomar. The game paces on the investigation carried out by Sheva about a terrorist threat in the fictional city of Kijuju, Africa. Chris also confronts an old enemy Albert Whisker who disturbs his conscious and haunts him down wherever he goes. They start their journey and in the midst of their adventure, the engage in heavy combats with Humanoid enemies instead of Zombies, Ganados, and a lot of other creatures using their guns, melee weapons and explosives. As the game offers multiplayer gaming mode, the players all around the world can team up or choose to play as enemies upon their liking. The game features an open word gaming environment, a dramatically engaging story-line, high definition graphics and a thrilling game-play that takes you to the heights of a super best gaming experience. Try this game and you’ll definitely be amazed.
#16 F.E.A.R 3
F.E.A.R 3 is a Single and Multiplayer Horror-Survival and FPS video game by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. This fantastic Action-filled game is the direct sequel to the popular F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin and over all third inclusion to the series. F.E.A.R 3 offers a First-person perspective and allows the players to Dual Wield weapons of their choice, get into bloody battle with the Armacham operatives and neutralize the threat to his mother Alma Wade. According to the Storyline, the events of the game are connected to the F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin. The game starts off nine months after the happenings of F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin’s storyline. The point man gets captured by Armacham operatives and gets shipped to Brazil. Paxton Fettel, a Spectre helps the Point Man break out of the facility and soon they find out that Alma Wade, their mother is in danger as she is being hunted by the Creep. In order to evade The Creep, they get on a chopper and land at the Fairport. Fairport is deserted as most of the population is gone mad after the paranormal activity and the remaining are executed by the Armacham. This is where the player gets into the paly. Player’s task is to simply save Alma Wade until she gives birth to her third child. The story of F.E.A.R 3 is kind of twisted as it offers multiple endings (Two endings) depending on the choices of the player and who he/she selects as the player character. Both Fettel and Point Man are the main characters of the game and the game lets the players choose between them play the game. With all the hardcore action and thrill, F.E.A.R 3 offers a great story, multiple game endings, a battle oriented gameplay and realistic graphics to make this the best ever experience of gaming ever. For all those who are familiar with the F.E.A.R Series games, this would definitely be the most entertaining one. Do give it a try and enjoy all the blasting action.
#17 Max Payne 3
Max Payne 3 is a super Action-Thriller Third-Person Shooter video game by Rockstar Studios. The game is set in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil and features the one and only New York City detective Max Payne as the main protagonist. Max flees to Sao Paulo and starts working as a Private Security Contractor after the dismissal from NYPD and killing the son of a local mob boss. In Sao Paulo, Max gets stuck deep into a quest filled with Treachery and Fatality and the real action begins. Max Payne 3 continues the story of Max’s hardcore adventures from where it took a pause in Max Payne 2. This Film-Noir and cinematic action-filled video game feature a great story, action-packed game-play and state of the art graphics along with 3 super-engaging Chapters, Arcade Mode, Multiplayer gaming mode, a lot of Collectibles and a huge range of Weapons. Max Payne 3 is no doubt a great blend of Action and Shooting elements that totally leaves you spellbound for a good amount of time. With all the action and Drama presented in the game is one amazing Action Thriller to enjoy.
#18 The Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel
The Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel is a brilliant Action-Adventure and Third Person Shooter video game. The game tells the story of two T.W.O (Tactical Worldwide Operations) Operatives named as Alpha and Bravo. Their duty is to save the hostages and neutralize the enemies and complete the operation by simply destroying every enemy post in the vicinity. Alpha, Bravo, Fiona and Salem are the main characters of the game and you’ll notice quite engaging nature of the game because of its militaristic nature and quite thrilling environment. The Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel offers brilliant visuals, immersive game-play and a lot of other great things to enjoy. Do give it a try. The Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel is a fun playing.
#19 Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction is an Action-Adventure, and Shooting video game created Pandemic Studios and published by LucasArts. The game has Single-player mode and combines the Open World, Third-person Perspective and Stealth elements and takes place during a fictional military action in North Korea. The player assumes the role one of the three mercenaries and his ultimate task is to complete contracts to earn profit for his counter and prevent a nuclear war. It offers open world sandbox environment, where the player picks up a variety of challenging missions, gather items, accomplish side task and drive multiple vehicles. It has five different factions such as South Korea, North Korea, the Allied Nations, the Russia Mafia, and China. Before entering the world, the player needs to choose his faction and each faction has a varied tasks to complete. Navigate the world from the third-person perspective and complete several missions to earn points that he can use to unlock weapons, upgrades and other equipment. Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction is the best game as compared to other Shooting games.
#20 Battle: Los Angeles
Battle: Los Angeles is an Action-Adventure, First-person Shooter, Single-player and Multiplayer video game published by Konami Digital Entertainment. The game is the adaption of the science-fiction movie of the same name and it mainly revolves around FPS genre. For many years, several cases have been documented of UFO sightings across the world, including France, China, Germany, Seoul, and Buenos Aires. But in the year 2011, the sightings turns into terrible reality when the planet Earth is threatened by unknown forces. They spread chaos everywhere and destroy almost everything except one place that becomes the last stand for humanity in the battle. Now, it’s up to the team of the player to draw a line in the sand and struggle to take on the enemies unlike any encountered before. The player explores the environment from a first-person perspective, use a huge arsenal of weaponry to fight against aliens and smash them before they the player and his team to take over the complete world.
#21 Army of Two: The 40th Day
Army of Two: The 40th Day is a Single-player and Multiplayer Third-person Shooter video game developed by EA Montreal and published by Electronic Arts for PlayStation and Xbox platforms. The game acts as the sequel to Army of Two video game, and it mainly revolves around two-player co-op play and employs a cover a system. It comes with Elliot Salem and Tyson Rios, the two main protagonists from the previous title, as partners who, with their controller named Alice Murray, must battle against enemies to survive and fend off evil forces that have threatened Shanghai. Updates and weapons are available, and the player can use them when needed to take down foes. The game is played from a third-person viewpoint, and the player can show off his shooting skills by completing a set of levels to impress his buddies. A newly introduced feature known as Aggro, enabling the player to control their enemies’ attack to change the outcome of a firefight. The playbook feature lets the player scan enemies from engaging them to install specific team-based tactics. With prominent features, addictive gameplay, and detailed graphics, you would really like the game to play.